Technical question about high speed internet

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I live in an apartment complex. I've had the same ISP for 4 years for internet and television. I'm satisfied with ISP#1. Well a couple of months ago a new landlord bought out the old one. Rent went up, service went down. On Friday they announced that they are coming into our apartments next week to get us ready for ISP#2.

The one thing I really don't want is to be forced off of ISP#1 and forced to buy ISP#2. When I called my ISP and asked, they said you can only have wiring for one ISP.

Just for the heck of it I called ISP#2 and asked the same question. They said I could have wiring and ports for both. So WTF? I always thought the residential areas were split up so that you could only get one or the other.

Can anyone shed light on this?

[UpInArms]

1. My son's house is

Wired for google and for AT&T


I don’t know if that helps

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2. I don't think google is an ISP (Internet service provider)

But AT&T is.

[UpInArms]

3. Google fiber

Is what he is now using …

AT&T was unreasonably expensive

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5. ok so he is just using one of them

[UpInArms]

7. Yes

He only has one in service

Am not certain if he could have had both

[Midnight Writer]

4. I have two connections. One through the local phone co. and the other through the local cable company.

One comes in through my telephone landline and the other goes through the line for cable TV.

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6. This would be 2 cable ports - if that is even possible.

I don't have a landline any more.