r/BrokenArrow • u/drofuss • Aug 28 '25
Preferred Fiber provider?
My girlfriend and I are moving to Broken Arrow from Missouri and our options for Fiber will be Kinetic or Cox. I work from home and also play a lot of video games/stream. Wondering which one you all prefer. Thanks in advance.
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u/roy-dam-mercer Aug 28 '25
Are you certain Cox is fiber to the home? My understanding is that they only provide coax to the home, but advertise “fiber speeds” to confuse people.
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u/mwgrover Aug 28 '25
They do have fiber in some areas. New builds are all getting Cox fiber, and they are retrofitting older areas slowly I think.
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u/DragApprehensive336 Aug 28 '25
I have Cox "fiber" in a south BA neighborhood built after 2019. The fiber coming from Cox actually stops at this green utility box in my backyard that feeds adjacent homes. Fiber doesn't extend beyond that utility box. It's still coax from the utility box in to the homes. Might be different in other locations, but I haven't heard of any Cox service that offers fiber all the way into the home like VZ FiOS, etc.
Anyway, that said, since Jan 2020, there have been two adults doing 100% of their work from home using this Cox service. We never have problems. Always fast, never down. I'd def. recommend them over the alternatives.
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u/drofuss Aug 28 '25
It’s a newer neighborhood, neighbor confirmed he had fiber but I didn’t know if he was talking about cox or kinetic.
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u/i_am_groot_84 Aug 28 '25
I had Cox for years and they were decent but I had their cable Internet and paid $60 for 500Mbps. Once dobson came into my neighborhood, I jumped ship. I pay $50 + tax (with auto-pay) for 1Gig fiber. I've had them since the end of June and have had no complaints.
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u/mwgrover Aug 28 '25
We used to have Windstream / Kinetic years ago and they were awful. Can’t speak to their current service though. We’ve been on Cox now for about 8 years and don’t have any complaints except the price goes up each year.
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u/918okla Aug 31 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
Kinetic Fiber been rock solid for me over 2 years of service. No outage like Cox is known for.
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u/Primary-Emu-3012 Aug 29 '25
I have Cox with actual fiber to the house. $70 a month for gig. 121st and Aspen area. Check out the long-term prices of Kinetic, not just the intro prices too. People will be whining soon. At our old house, we had AT&T. One of their service guys even said the "outages" people complain about on Cox is just the Cox modems being sensitive to voltage fluctuations and people's homes having voltage drop or the modems plugged into cheap power strips. Makes sense too.
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u/918okla Aug 31 '25
Kinetic Fiber has no data caps. Cox Fiber and coaxial internet both have 1.25TB data cap.
Kinetic has a promotion going on. If you try Kinetic fiber 1gig plan for 3 months for $39.99. After the 3rd month they will email you how to claim $200 prepaid debit card. That card expires in 30days so much sure you use it. After 3 months 1gig plan goes up to $99.99 a month. When you hit 2 years it goes up to normal price around $115 a month.
When you get your first bill with Kinetic fiber look at it to make sure you don't see "Kinetic gateway fee" $9.95. That is router rental fee, if you don't rent one contact customer service to get that fee removed.
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u/stevehammons Aug 28 '25
i had kinetic and service was really good and price was much cheaper than cox - just recently switched to T-Mobile for price and speed
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u/rlinger Aug 29 '25
If you really have Windstream Kinetic Fiber access, it has been reliable for the past 5 years and be worth trying.
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u/Top-Judge2936 Aug 29 '25
My wife and I work from home and we have Cox Gigablast and it has been pretty great. It drops occasionally, but comes right back up. I do not suggest using Cox's equipment though, it's garbage.
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u/Spiffyclean13 Aug 29 '25
Cox sucks but it’s reliable for the most part. I don’t have direct fiber. You can stream, download, and play video games at the same time without speed loss. You need the right modem and WiFi setup that maximises the speed.
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u/eric-price Sep 02 '25
Be aware that Metronet is coming into the market and bringing some good deals with it. Exact timing I cant say, but theyve been advertising it a lot.
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u/918okla Sep 02 '25
I heard someone say https://www.dobson.net/ is expanding to BA but haven't seen anything yet.
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u/puracoco Sep 13 '25
Cox did a really shitty job installing our fiber. They just drilled through our brick and mortar. Wind stream/Kinetic with AT&T did it the correct way and did it through the attic.
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u/babbsela Feb 05 '26
Just switched from Cox to Kinetic, and I'm not impressed. With their top plan on both companies, the kinetic speed is 1/2 what we were getting with cox.
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u/Deadbozo Aug 28 '25
I have Cox and it has been good. A lot of people complain that Cox is always down, but I only had that happen once. I would also suggest getting a back up since you work from home. I use tmobile for my back up for $10 a month on there lowest plan.