Comments on: EREC’s Plans For North Escambia Fiber Internet Moves Forward

By: Benttwig

Benttwig — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:08:06 +0000

How much will the speed throttle back after 2 gigs?? We watch everything on Roku so everything needs internet how hard is it to use up 2 gigs

By: Matthew E

Matthew E — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:13:44 +0000

This sounds great. Will yall be expanding in Santa Rosa County? I live off Hwy 4, between Jay and Berrydale. Spectrum service ends a couple miles from my house. I even managed to get them to come out and do a survey. They claimed they’d only gain like 14 customers by expanding out here. So only choices are satellite or mobile hotspots, neither of which are that great of options. I saw someone say if you have EREC for power, than you’re in their footprint, but don’t know if they just meant Escambia county or what.

By: Taylon

Taylon — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:31:14 +0000

@Donald

If you have EREC for power then you’re in their footprint. If you’re FPL then you’re probably out of luck.

If you read the FAQ over at Conexon’s site you’ll see that they will run their cables along the power lines so if your house has power via poles then the lines they run to your house will be on those same poles instead of burying them all the way to the house.

So right now we’ll just have to wait and see how aggressive they are with their installation timetables, or if they get hit with delay after delay.

Also, if you’re able to get Starlink where you’re at I highly recommend it over Hughes or Viasat. Night and day difference.

By: Donald Sanders

Donald Sanders — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:40:01 +0000

Will the service come down highway 97 past Gibson Road where other ISP stops, our ISP, Hughes, charges about $100 a month for 30 MBPS which we use up in 2 weeks and then it is throttled back to less than 1 MBPS, most of the time it’s 0.15 MBPS. WE CANT DO ANYTHING AT THAT SPEED. Hughes has us over a barrel because we can’t get anything else. We get hughes or direct tv, direct tvi is worse than hughes. We need the fiber optic service on highway 97. Thanks

By: NPC

NPC — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:10:45 +0000

Pssssssst, hey COX, you lost. Imagine how your business will be affected when these prices head south? Heads up Spectrum, three prices are better than yours also.

By: Kane

Kane — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:16:46 +0000

One small step for E.R.E.C one giant leap for residents!! This is great news for everyone not just the residents that will directly benefit. The less Cox spreads the better maybe this will inspire other entities and competitors to our area God knows we need them.

By: KR

KR — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:14:48 +0000

Looks like those of us in Pilgrim Hills are left out again! Tell me why if service isn’t available up here, why was Conexon laying fiber in the area???

By: Taylon

Taylon — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:43:32 +0000

Well this is absolutely fantastic news.

Doubt my house will make that 2023 3rd quarter availability, but I signed up anyway. At least they didn’t require a deposit like Starlink did.

By: Molino Resident

Molino Resident — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:32:07 +0000

Will this be available to residents in the Molino area how are serviced by FPL and not EREC?

By: hootnholler

hootnholler — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:27:12 +0000

2 thumbs up, now if they would do the same in alabama