LEE COUNTY

Many radical are frustrated arsenic they adjacent 3 and a fractional weeks without internet.

Hurricane Ian knocked retired work for a batch of radical and it’s taking a toll arsenic radical effort to enactment and study.

Centurylink says the presumption of transportation each depends connected wherever you unrecorded particularly due to the fact that of the harm their infrastructure endured

Xfinity says they’re adjacent to returning service, but people are bushed of waiting and privation their net backmost astatine afloat strength.

For some CenturyLink and Xfinity net customers each implicit Southwest Florida

Bill Halscheid is 1 of the little than 1500 Cape Coral Xfinity customers without internet.

“As soon arsenic it started the net and everything went out. They called a mates of times aft I called them and said work has been restored but it truly hasn’t,” Halscheid said.

When Halscheid’s woman called them today, they gave her a day of February.

CenturyLink customers got a akin daze during Wednesday’s Cape Coral City Council meeting, proceeding it whitethorn instrumentality immoderate successful the metropolis until the commencement of 2023 to get the net back.

Charlotte and Collier County should beryllium afloat restored by the extremity of November, southbound Lee County by mid-December, and northbound Lee County is going to instrumentality a while.

Tim Slattery, an Xfinity lawsuit said “CenturyLink is astir apt going to suffer a batch of customers. That’s unacceptable.”

A spokesperson told WINK News they’re adjacent to getting everyone restored.

Slattery said his net has been spotty astatine best, making it pugnacious to fto household successful Indiana cognize they were okay.

“My ma is up successful Indiana inactive I can’t fig retired what’s incorrect with you guys down there. Sorry,” Slattery said.

Nadine Latronica said she enactment their Xfinity relationship connected clasp due to the fact that it was excessively overmuch particularly since her hubby works from home.

“He was moving retired of his motortruck due to the fact that OnStar, if your car was moving gave you 1 escaped period of satellite. So helium was moving retired of determination for a while,” Latronica said.

WINK News asked CenturyLink if their catastrophe effect program volition beryllium reviewed to forestall these agelong restoration times.

They said they spot the resiliency of their web summation with each catastrophe and they’re replacing damaged copper successful areas with a much durable fibre connection.