Technologies
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Which Does Cable Internet Better?
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Comcast and Charter are two of the country’s biggest broadband companies. Which should you trust for your home’s online connectivity needs?
Cable internet is usually your next best option for a speedy connection at home if fiber isn’t available at your address. The two most prominent cable providers are Comcast Xfinity and Charter Spectrum, which soared into second place after acquiring Time Warner Cable in 2016. Both providers can claim to offer internet service to about a third of the country, meaning they’re an option for more than 100 million Americans each.
That’s big business as far as home internet is concerned. So which one is the superior choice? Let’s crunch the numbers on speed and value and dig through the terms, fees and customer service track records to find out. Here’s the complete rundown.
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Coverage and availability
In June 2021 (the most recent data available), the Federal Communications Commission reported that Xfinity and Spectrum offered home internet service to more than 100 million people in the US. Coverage is most concentrated in the Northeast, the Midwest and the South with both providers. You’ll also find Xfinity and Spectrum plans available in parts of the West, Southwest and mountainous regions of the US. Spectrum even offers internet service throughout the majority of Hawaii.
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Despite the large swaths of coverage, there’s less overlap between the two providers’ footprints than you might think. Though you’ll find both available in several metro regions across the country, including Atlanta; Indianapolis; Knoxville, Tennessee; Minneapolis; and Orlando, Florida, the two providers each tend to stick to whatever parts of the map they’ve managed to wall off for themselves, with one often claiming a city’s central, downtown area and the other planting its flag in many of the adjacent suburbs.
That means you aren’t likely to find Xfinity and Spectrum available at the same address — but moving across town might mean switching from one provider to another.
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Plans and prices
It’s tough to compare Xfinity’s and Spectrum’s prices quickly, side by side. While Spectrum offers three fairly straightforward plans across its entire coverage area, Xfinity offers several plans with different terms and fees in each of the three regions that make up its coverage map. In other words, get ready for a bunch of charts.
Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. With Spectrum, you have three plans to choose from, with max download speeds of 300 megabits per second, 500Mbps and 940Mbps. Depending on your choice, your monthly bill will range from $50 to $90 during your promo period. After that, your monthly rate will increase by $25, meaning you’ll pay $75 to $115 each month. The good news is that no contracts or data caps are associated with any of those plans.
Spectrum home internet plans
Plan | Max speeds | First-year promo rate | Standard rate | Equipment fee | Data cap | Contract |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spectrum Internet | 300Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $50 | $75 | $5 router rental (skippable) | None | None required |
Spectrum Internet Ultra | 500Mbps download, 20Mbps upload | $70 | $95 | $5 router rental (skippable) | None | None required |
Spectrum Internet Gig | 940Mbps, 35Mbps upload | $90 | $115 | $5 router rental (skippable) | None | None required |
Xfinity offers a wider variety of plans and a more comprehensive range of prices and speeds, too. In all regions, max download speeds range from 75Mbps to 6,000Mbps in select parts of the footprint that have access to an Xfinity fiber connection.
That said, per the FCC, fiber was only available to 4% of Xfinity subscribers as of June 2021, so at the majority of Xfinity addresses, the fastest speed available will be a 1,200Mbps cable plan. All Xfinity plans come with a 1.2TB data cap (more on that in just a bit), and in some regions, some plans come with a one- or two-year contract.
Xfinity’s speed offerings are the same across all three regions.
Xfinity home internet plans (West division)
Plan | Max speeds | First-year promo rate | Standard rate (after promo period) | Equipment fee | Data cap | Term agreement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Connect | 75Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $25 | $50 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | Yes (1.2TB) | None |
Connect More | 200Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $40 | $60 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | Yes (1.2TB) | None |
Fast | 400Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $55 | $70 (after 24 months) | $25 gateway rental (included for 24 months) | None | None |
Superfast | 800Mbps download, 15Mbps upload | $65 | $80 (after 24 months) | $25 gateway rental (included for 24 months) | None | None |
Ultrafast | 1,000Mbps download, 20Mbps upload | $75 | $90 (after 24 months) | $25 gateway rental (included for 24 months) | None | None |
Gigabit Extra | 1,200Mbps download, 35Mbps upload | $80 | $100 (after 24 months) | $25 gateway rental (included for 24 months) | None | None |
Gigabit Pro | 6,000Mbps download, 6,000Mbps upload | $300 | $300 | $25 gateway rental (required) | None | 2 years |
Xfinity home internet plans (Central division)
Plan | Max speeds | First-year promo rate | Standard rate (after promo period) | Equipment fee | Data cap | Term agreement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Connect | 75Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $30 | $49 | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | Yes (1.2TB) | 1 year |
Connect More | 200Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $40 | $69 | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | Yes (1.2TB) | 1 year |
Fast | 400Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $55 | $79 | $25 gateway rental (included for 12 months) | None | 1 year |
Superfast | 800Mbps download, 15Mbps upload | $70 | $89 | $25 gateway rental (included for 12 months) | None | 1 year |
Ultrafast | 1,000Mbps download, 20Mbps upload | $75 | $99 | $25 gateway rental (included for 12 months) | None | 1 year |
Gigabit Extra | 1,200Mbps download, 35Mbps upload | $80 | $109 | $25 gateway rental (included for 12 months) | None | 1 year |
Gigabit Pro | 6,000Mbps download, 6,000Mbps upload | $300 | $300 | $25 gateway rental (required) | None | 2 years |
Xfinity home internet plans (Northeast division)
Plan | Max speeds | First-year promo rate | Standard rate (after promo period) | Equipment fee | Data cap | Term agreement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Performance Starter | 75Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $65 | $65 | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Performance | 200Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $84 | $84 | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Performance Pro | 400Mbps download, 10Mbps upload | $40 | $89 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Blast! | 800Mbps download, 20Mbps upload | $60 | $94 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Extreme Pro | 1,000Mbps download, 20Mbps upload | $70 | $99 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Gigabit Plus | 1,200Mbps download, 35Mbps upload | $80 | $104 (after 24 months) | $14 gateway rental (skippable) | No | None |
Gigabit Pro | 3,000Mbps download, 3,000Mbps upload | $300 | $300 | $25 gateway rental (required) | No | 2 years |
Pricing is where Xfinity gets a bit complicated. For starters, let’s pull out that top-tier Gigabit Pro plan, which is only available at addresses with access to Xfinity fiber. It costs a hefty $300 per month and comes with a two-year agreement in all three regions. You’ll also need to request a site survey to verify that your address is serviceable for the plan.
As for the standard cable internet plans, available everywhere with download speeds of up to 1,200Mbps, monthly prices range from $25 to $80 during the promo period and from $49 to $109 after that. Just pay attention to those price jumps because, in some regions, they can get awfully steep.
How steep? Things aren’t so bad in the West, where the average price increase on those cable plans is around $20. But in the Central division, where contracts are mandatory with all plans, that average increase shoots up to $33. In the Northeast, only the four fastest cable plans come with a price increase after the first year — between them, the average jump is about $34. If you live in the Northeast and you subscribe to Xfinity’s 400Mbps Performance Pro plan, you’ve got the worst of it. After the promo period, your bill more than doubles, skyrocketing from $40 to $89 per month.
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Which offers the better value?
The easiest way to get a quick sense of value with an internet plan is to look at the monthly cost per Mbps. Spectrum’s average cost across all three plans during the first-year promo period is 18 cents for each Mbps of download speed. After Year 1, that average goes up to 25 cents per Mbps. Both are decent figures — the only cable provider that does better is WideOpenWest, or WOW, which charges an average of 15 cents per Mbps during the first year and 21 cents per Mbps after that.
With Xfinity’s smattering of cable plans, you’ll pay an average of 25 cents per Mbps during the first year and 39 cents per Mbps after your promo ends and your bill goes up. (The Gigabit Pro fiber plan does come in at 5 cents per Mbps, but again, you’re paying $300 each month for it.) That’s still better than many other competitors, including cable internet rival Cox Communications, which charges an average of 53 cents per Mbps during Year 1 and 80 cents per Mbps after that.
With more plans and three separate regions, there’s a lot of variance in the Xfinity value proposition, and some plans offer better value than others. Overall, though, you’ll be paying a bit more than you will with Spectrum.
When you factor in Xfinity’s contracts, data caps and price hikes, it’s pretty clear that Spectrum wins on value.
Xfinity vs. Spectrum: Contrasting terms and fees
Neither provider goes overboard with extra fees, and both give you the flexibility to skip them whenever possible. Here’s the breakdown:
Installation
Xfinity charges $40 for in-home, professional installation of your home internet service. Spectrum charges $50, but the cost shoots up to a stink-face-inducing $200 if you go for the fastest plan, Internet Gig. You can skip the fee with both providers by using a self-install kit and plugging everything in yourself, though Spectrum charges $10 for its self-install equipment, while Xfinity’s kit is free.
It’s also pretty standard for internet providers to waive the fee for professional installation to help entice you into signing up, so it’s worth asking for that if you’re trying to negotiate the best deal.
Equipment rental
Both providers charge a monthly equipment fee for renting a gateway or router, but you can skip that fee by using your own gear in both cases. It’s a little easier with Spectrum, which provides a modem at no cost and then charges $5 per month if you rent a router — just get a router of your own and kiss that $5 fee goodbye.
With Xfinity, you’ll be charged $14 per month for renting a combination modem/router gateway device, so you’ll need both a modem and a router of your own (or a combo device of your own) to skip the fee.
Data caps
Here’s where Spectrum and Xfinity start to part ways. None of Spectrum’s internet plans have a data cap, so you can browse, stream, Zoom and download as much as possible without fear of incurring extra charges. On the other hand, Xfinity enforces a data cap of 1.2TB (1,200GB) for all of its plans. You’ll see extra charges on your bill if you burn through more data in a given month.
Specifically, Xfinity will charge a $10 fee for every 50GB of data over the cap, up to a maximum charge of $100 each month. The good news is that 1.2TB is more than enough for most households. In fact, during 2020 when home internet usage soared because of the pandemic, average monthly data usage in America peaked at about 400GB. That’s one-third the size of Xfinity’s data cap.
Still, if you’re a heavy user of home internet — someone with lots of family members or roommates online, or someone who regularly games online, downloads or uploads lots of large files, or spends most of the day tied up in video calls — then a data cap might rightly give you pause. In that case, you might want to consider signing up for Xfinity’s unlimited data offer, which will add $30 to your monthly bill. But remember that it’s only really worth it if you would otherwise incur at least three overage charges per month.
In a battle for customer satisfaction, Xfinity outperforms Spectrum
The American Customer Satisfaction Index released its 2022 scores for the ISP category, and the overall rating among all providers dropped a point from last year to 64 out of 100. Xfinity and Spectrum both hovered around that average, but in different ways. Spectrum finished 1 point below average at 63 (no change from the previous year), and Xfinity finished two points above average at 66 but suffered a 1-point loss from the year earlier. Along with finishing slightly above the average for the second year in a row, Xfinity’s score was best among cable providers and fourth-best among all ISPs, trailing only Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.
J.D. Power also ranks internet providers for customer satisfaction. Its 2022 report is divided across four regions — Xfinity outscored Spectrum in all of them and beat the overall category average. Out of a 1,000-point scale, Xfinity received scores of 706 in the East region, 703 in the North Central region, 736 in the South region and 709 in the West region. That comes to an average score of 714, just a tick above the overall ISP average of 710.
Spectrum’s overall average with J.D. Power rings in at 689, 21 points below the overall ISP average. The company’s strongest finish was a 719 in the South; its weakest was a 666 in the East.
Our overall verdict: Spectrum wins
It’s a close one. Both providers are huge, but Xfinity has a slightly larger footprint, and if you can find it, the company’s 6,000Mbps fiber plan is one of the fastest in the industry. Spectrum doesn’t offer anything like that. Xfinity also boasts a better variety of plans than Spectrum and a slightly better customer service track record.
Still, I say Spectrum wins out for offering much better value than Xfinity. You’ll pay less per Mbps with Spectrum, and you won’t have to put up with data caps, contracts or severe price hikes like Comcast’s customers. What’s more, Spectrum’s plans and prices are more straightforward and easier to understand than Xfinity’s.
As cable providers, neither will offer upload speeds that are anything close to fiber. But if fiber isn’t an option, they’re your next best bet for a fast, reliable connection at home. Between the two, I give the edge to Spectrum.

Technologies
What Is Face App?: All You Need To Know About Face App.
What Is Face App?
Face app is a mobile application for IOS and Androids created by Russian company Wireless Lab and released January, 2017.
The app uses neural networks to stimulate how a person will look like as he or she ages. It uses artificial intelligence and neural face transformation to make faces look creepy, hilarious and even change gender.
Over 150 million people use this app.
So many people on the internet are having fun with this latest social media app. Since its launch in 2017, the app has gone viral that if you have been on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many other internet services that let people share photos, you would have seen it or see photos posted by people that have been made younger or older by the app.
This app can be used to make GIF and also save or upload your photo to its server in order to transform it.
Why Is It Popular?
Face app has become very popular because it allows users to upload photos of their faces and automatically edit them to look like their future selves.
The app doesn’t only use neural network to change faces but it also put a smile on the face and change the gender too.
The gender swap is the most interesting feature of this fun app because it usually turns out quite convincing.
Face app uses the following filters to make faces look young, old, and change gender.
- The smile and smile2 filters- this filters will add a smile to the face in a photo
- Young filter. This filter will make the face younger
- Old filter. The old filter will make a face older than it is already
- Female filter. The filter will give the face female looks
- Male filter. Will give the face male looks.
How To Use Face App
Face app can be used to filter photos in two ways either by taking a live photo or by uploading a photo from the photo library.
Filter A Live Photo
The following are ways to take a photo and filter it with face app.
- Launch the app
- A live view will display on your camera with an overlay that is head-shaped
- Position your face within the overlay
- Tap the shutter button when you have got the framing right
- Swipe through the filters and choose any one
- Tap the save button or tap the share icon to share your photo
Filter A Photo From The Photo Library
- Launch the app
- Tap on the photos at the bottom of the screen and swipe upward to bring up the photo library
- Tap to choose the photo you want to filter
- Swipe through the filters and chose one
- Tap the save button or the share icon to share your filtered photo.
How To Get Face App
Face app is a free app that can be downloaded to your device from the app store or Google play. To install face app on your device, open the app store or Google play, search for the app in store and click or tab install, download or get.
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UBA Mobile Banking Codes: Money transfer, Airtime recharge and check balance
UBA Mobile Banking Codes: Money transfer, Airtime recharge and check balance
The UBA Mobile Banking Codes or UBA Magic Manking Code is *919#. With it, customers can do a whole lot of things such as airtime purchase, payment of bills, fund transfer from one bank to another
USSD codes have made banking much easier and convenient, its relevance cannot be over-emphasized. UBA Mobile Banking Codes is easy to use and fast. It actually works like magic, if only you have all things in order and there is money in your account.
Things you can do with UBA Transfer code
- Buy Airtime.
- Send money.
- Pay bills.
- Fund prepaid card.
- Check account balance.
UBA Bank USSD code for Transferring Money
Like we said earlier, you can use UBA bank code to send money to UBA bank’s account and the account belonging to any bank within Nigeria.
- Dial *919*3*account Number*amount# – for transferring to another UBA bank account.
- Dial *919*4*account Number*amount# – for transferring to other bank accounts in Nigeria.
Example: To send 10,000 Naira to a UBA Bank account number, say – 9076666586.
- Dial *919*3*9076666586*10000#.
Example: To send 10,000 Naira to another bank’s account number, say – 0011144444.
Dial 9194*0011144444 *10000#.
UBA Bank USSD code for Recharging Airtime
With UBA transfer shortcode, you can as well recharge the airtime for your phone line or another phone line.
- Dial *919*amount# – for self recharge.
- Dial *919*phone number*amount# – for other phone numbers.
Example: To recharge your phone line with N4,000 airtime.
- Dial *919*4000#.
Example: To recharge a separate phone number, say 08153334444 with N4,000 airtime.
- Dial *909*08153334444*4000#.
UBA Bank USSD code for checking account balance
To check your UBA account balance using the UBA banking code.
- Dial *919*00#
This comes in handy that moment someone sends you money and you need to check your account balance ASAP.
UBA Bank USSD code for paying a bill
You can settle some bills using UBA transfer code or banking code. It’s not that convenient for me, hence I still use the traditional means of going to the dealer’s office. But if you find peace using it or you want to give it a try.
- Dial *919*5#
UBA Bank USSD code for funding UBA prepaid card
Aside the regular ATM card customers wield, UBA offers a prepaid card that imitates al of ATM card functionality except it is not attached to any UBA account. All user’s banking information is pinned to that card. The prepaid card works best as a gift card – its recommended. Since this card is not attached to any bank account, you can only fund it by going to the nearest UBA bank or using the UBA banking/transfer code.
- Dial *919*32#
Note: This works only from the number associated with the prepaid card.
UBA Bank USSD code for ATM cardless withdraw
- Dial *919*30*Amount#
NOTE, you can carry out all of these bank transaction using UBA mobile money application if you are not conversant with USSD codes.
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Cost Of Architectural Drawing And House Plan For 4 bedroom duplex In Nigeria 2023
Cost Of Architectural Drawing And House Plan For 4 bedroom duplex In Nigeria.
Due to high demand of people who was to know the Cost Of Architectural Drawing And House Plan For 4 bedroom duplex In Nigeria, We decided make some good research and come up with what we have on this page as a result.
4 bedroom duplex

Ground floor:
- Entrance porch
- Waiting room (with guest WC)
- Living and dining room
- Guest room
- Kitchen
- Store
- Lobby
- Utility room
First floor:
- 3 rooms en- suite (master bedroom has a walk in closet)
- Living room
- Balcony
HOUSE PLAN DESCRIPTION Chart.
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