After a series of real reliability problems with our prior cable modem Internet service, we decided to try NOVOS FiBER out. They had just come through our neighborhood, laying the first fiber option we were to have. The price for 1 Gb up and down (symmetrical) was just a little more than our cable provider charged for 300 Mb down and 12 Mb up. They had a 500 Mb up/down for $50, which was over $20 cheaper than our cable service was. We decided to go with the 1 Gb tier, as my wife and I have both been working from home and I just wanted to see what such speed was like.
It's been great. My ASUS router is a better one and I use that instead of the good one they provide (which also acts as a fiber "modem"). I am able to run a speed test native to my router (Ookla) and it consistently tells me speeds are never less than 939 Mb/sec down and 939 Mb/sec up. My fastest test was 944 down and 948 up. The non-promotional price was $79.99 a month, but for the past 12 months with a promotion, was $30 off each month, without a contract. You can get a dedicated IP for $5 a month and a $5 a month discount for autopay. We have both of these, too.
Our cable provider had been adequate, but in the prior nine months before leaving, we had been without service for nearly 17 hours during the day one day, another time it was out nearly 12 hours, then 5 and 3 hours. These affected work. We must have plenty of home workers in my city, because our cellular hotspot backups sometimes didn't work well enough, so we had to call in via voice and miss what was being shown. This left us at wit's end.
NOVOS has worked what seems like flawlessly during these now 13 months. There was a time or two where they told us we would be down at night a couple hours for "network upgrades," but my SimpliSafe told me when it went down and came back up, and it was far less time than any of the unplanned daytime breakages the cable company had.
We plan to stay with NOVOS. It just works, and this level of high reliability is what we as professionals need. read more