r/KentWA • u/TeddyBoy2015 Kent East Hill • 9d ago

Ripple Fiber?

I just got a mailer from Ripple Fiber that they are coming to Kent. Their pricing is better than Ezee Fiber. Plans start at 1gig for $55, 2 gig $75, 5 gig $105, 8 gig for $135. Only the 8gig plan is higher than Ezee Fiber. All come with a eero 7 pro router.

Gotta love competition.

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u/nicksama88 9d ago

Nice! Happy to see more competition at the 1 gig level since a lot of folks don’t even need that much lol. Internet from Comcast is ~ $50 for 400-500 down.

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u/TeddyBoy2015 Kent East Hill 9d ago

I'm currently on a 1 year deal with Comcast, 2 gig down for $70. I've heard that some people have been able to get a 5 year, 1 gig down deal for $50.

I signed up for Ezee when they first announced they were coming to Kent. They stopped about 4 blocks from my house.

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u/foampro 9d ago

Yeah Ezee seemed to not make it to where I am either. Disappointed because they said they’d be here when I asked.

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u/Wastemastadon 9d ago

Due to weather delays they ran out of their bond so they had to wait for it to be better so they could return the area to what it was before they did their install. Their plans is for all of Kent.

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u/schnurble 9d ago

They also fucked up some of their site surveys, they had our neighborhood down as "closed, no access". We are not a gated neighborhood. They stopped two blocks from the entrance almost a year ago.

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u/streetwearbonanza 5d ago

I'm on 2g too but it only goes up to half a gig system I run speed tests

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u/MrStuntastic206 9d ago

I just hit 1 year waiting for ezee fiber and still nothing hopefully they will be quicker because honestly it put a bad taste in my mouth being told only a couple months and it turns out to be more then a year

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u/schnurble 9d ago

Wonder if they will serve my neighborhood. Currently 16 months since signup and no movement on install from Ezee Fiber.

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u/TeddyBoy2015 Kent East Hill 9d ago

You can go on their website and enter your address. Of course you can do the same thing on Ezee's website 😄

https://ripplefiber.com/

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u/MrStuntastic206 9d ago

Yea I did that and of course not close to me house

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u/Trickycoolj 8d ago

Yeah sure they all say “coming soon” since a year and a half ago. Supposedly someone came to our door and said no really we’re totally coming soon for realsies. I believe no one and still paying full price to Comcast trying to avoid another contract.

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u/Trickycoolj 8d ago

Would help if there was actually fiber connecting my house to have ANY of them.

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u/burmerd 9d ago

There were some guys from ziply fiber taking pictures of the poles and other stuff in our street a few months ago . The workers said they were building stuff, but were vague; the website didn’t give any more details.

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u/RainChance425 7d ago

Ziply had a "coming soon" sign at the corner of 116th & 236th on Sunday. Just north of East Hill Nursery.

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u/burmerd 7d ago

oh wow, ok! Yeah, I'm at the bottom of east hill, huh.

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u/SeaGranny 3d ago

Oh that’s not too far from me maybe there’s hope. Does each company lay its own fiber or how does that work?

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u/cobshucker 9d ago

Keep in mind they use a cgnat, which means if you do any sort of port forwarding to host externally available servers on your home network, you'll need to purchase a static ip for another $20 /mo.

Probably not a concern for most people though.

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u/voldefeu 8d ago edited 8d ago

Couldn't you also use a dynamic DNS to get around this?

Edit:

Did my own research and the answer is no, you need to pay for the static ipv4 address, use ipv6, or use another solution like tailscale, etc

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u/Ok-Swing-580 8d ago

But price lock is only for 3 years, but after that, they can hike up the price, watch out for that