I've been a Sonic customer since moving to SF a decade ago and now my partner and I are pulling stakes and making the move to Sonoma County for the long term because of work. We'll likely rent in Santa Rosa for the first year while we save and every place we're looking at has really slow internet options from Sonic, most in the 20Mbps range-- which I know from my time living in the Tenderloin that depending on my distance from the DSLAM, that 20Mbps can vary wildly. I currently live in the Outer Richmond in SF and have had Sonic's Gigabit Fiber service the moment it arrived on my block and we absolutely love it for both work and entertainment purposes. The prospect of going back to crawling speeds is very disheartening. There is also zero chance of us paying for faster speeds from the major players such as Comcast, et al. as we find them completely unethical and don't want to support their business.
I understand Fiber infrastructure rollout is expensive, slow, and often runs against political headwinds born of lobbying from the major ISPs, but I guess I expected a Santa Rosa-based company to have better representation of their high profile services in their home city and county.
I understand Fiber infrastructure rollout is expensive, slow, and often runs against political headwinds born of lobbying from the major ISPs, but I guess I expected a Santa Rosa-based company to have better representation of their high profile services in their home city and county.