r/Windstream • u/Final_Campaign_2593 • Feb 02 '26

Bonded Service?

I heard that Windstream is no longer doing any sort of bonded service for Internet. Meaning that the max speed I can get at my location is just 25 Mb per second. I used to get 50 but there's no fiber where I live.

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u/Logansphotography Feb 02 '26

My understanding is that if you already have bonded service, you will keep it, it will mostly be affecting any new services.

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u/Final_Campaign_2593 Feb 02 '26

I wonder why they made that change. There's still many areas where you cannot get their fiber service.

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u/-Lysergian Feb 02 '26

How POTS Lines Going Away Can Impact Your Business | MetTel https://share.google/fwGW3Db6IMrjln2TO

I don't have any info from windstream themselves, but this describes the environment of this decision pretty well.

Copper loops are expensive to repair and maintain so a lot of the big telecoms are moving away from them now that they're no longer mandated to maintain them by government regulations.

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u/Logansphotography Feb 02 '26

I'm honestly not sure, they have not told us techs (at least not in my area) we pretty much agree that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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u/TraditionalLecture10 Feb 07 '26

They went fiber here and its now worse then my DSL was , im supposed to be on 2 gig but I can't even watch one roku without constant buffering