Most of the time the internet is acceptable. There have been many problems in the past that were always blamed on building problems. For years after I moved in, the TV was terrible and the internet was abominable. The internet would work for a few seconds and stop for a second. Then they fixed it and for a while (years) it has been ok. Now, it seems to me, based on the speed test, that the modem is dropping multiple streams when the internet leaves NYC. And, as I said, the cable card drops the EMM's.
Also, the laundry room card machine is out for the third week in a row. There is a sign on it saying they are working with Verizon. The phones went out a few months ago and Verizon put in a new cooper cable from the Central Office.
This is a nice building but it is a solidly middle class, middle service, certainly not luxury as they seem to portray it now. There have always been heat, electricity, water, and gas service problems that have been mostly fixed when they renovated the apartments. It will be interesting to see how they maintain the building now that people have spent so much for the co-ops.
The renovations that they did were not what they could have been. The water pipes are narrow, especially to secondary bathrooms. The electrical boxes in the basement were not upgraded after they changed the risers to the apartments.
Let's not even mention the constant mold problem.
All in all, I like living here, although it sounds like I do not.
I await FIOS which is in the basement, but management will not let them wire the building (yet?).