I love Sonic. It just works. I’ve *never* had a dropout (at least whenever I was using the internet) over the last 1.5 years of service. Before that I had a little less than a year of xfinity and we’d get these random 15 minute dropouts during the evening, every single day. And before that, at a different house, it was 1-2 Mb/sec ATT DSL - in a word, horrible.
Sonic is a relatively small private company that is headquartered in Santa Rosa. Thus, their network buildout has been slow. I had to wait around 4 months (a guess) from my first inquiry to when it was available mid-Peninsula. Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly friends in SF, likes their service.
Xfinity was sort of OK, I think the advertised rate was around 100 Mb/Sec for the service we had. Don’t remember what my actual measured rate was - maybe around 80 Mb/sec. When it was announced the price was going up to $119/mo I signed up (and waited) for Sonic. There are discounts for the first year, along with the first three months free. The new subscriber discount package is probably different now.
Right now we’re paying $63/mo including a voip line (which I rarely use, but wanted to keep the custom phone number I requested years ago when I was in my early 20s) and around a dozen tiny federal and Calif regulatory taxes.
IMO, it’s an excellent value compared to other services in my area.
Sonic uplink rates are similar, sometimes they’re faster than downlink rates (kind of makes sense). Just did a check via 5 GHz wifi and it’s 543 Mb/sec down and 485 Mb/sec up.
Hope this helps…
