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I need increased bandwith at my home and dont think Google will be here for at least a year. ATT has fiber on my street and now I'm considering them. They dropped the packet inspection in October, and since the contract is only a year I am thinking of switching over to them. To those who have it, what are you getting over wifi? Has the service and speed been reliable? I wont be using them for TV, just fiber 1,000.
I've been using it since we moved into our house last summer and have been happy. Our neighborhood has had it for a couple of years and everyone I've spoken with has been happy (after there was an initial issue that took some time to get resolved--turned out the old modem/routers were junk). I get 300-400 Mbps down and up over wifi and service has been reliable. I've never hardwired mine but some neighbors say they get >900 Mbps down and up hardwired.
I think they've changed the pricing structure since I signed up (or maybe it's just different for areas that have newly laid cable). We did not have to sign a contract for ours.
While I don't have the service, I did consider it, since it's in my neighborhood. I decided against it mainly because of two reasons. The first is they require a contract. I general I think if you have a good product/service then you shouldn't have to lock in customers. The second issue I have is that they data caps.
I doubt you "need" increased bandwidth at your home right now. We have the 50 Mbps plan from Time Warner and it works fine for everything. The reason we're eventually switching to Google Fiber is that they charge the same price we pay for Time Warner but Google gives you more bandwidth. Wait for Google...
No regrets at all. Got the Internet 300 for $50 a month ($57 w/ taxes) a couple months ago. No installation fee. It's actually cheaper than the 20Mbps service I had via Uverse before. Service has been great - I haven't had to reboot the router once. Router has both 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands which is nice as well, so you can split traffic or choose swap based on speed/distance needs. In the same room via wireless, I'll consistently get 175-215Mbps up and down. We're a family of 5 and lots of online activity - no problems at all. I can't see why I'd need the Internet 1000 for an extra $30 per month any time soon.
I can't believe I'm actually a fan of a cable company offering again. Just ask me in 10 months when the initial contract runs out, and they double the price on me. ;-) I hope by then, Google is ready to roll!
I've been using it since we moved into our house last summer and have been happy. Our neighborhood has had it for a couple of years and everyone I've spoken with has been happy (after there was an initial issue that took some time to get resolved--turned out the old modem/routers were junk). I get 300-400 Mbps down and up over wifi and service has been reliable. I've never hardwired mine but some neighbors say they get >900 Mbps down and up hardwired.
Around the same for me. I'll sometimes see up to about 500mbs on wifi. Hardwired I can see 800+ at times.
I was an early adopter of Gigapower and had issues when they were installing neighbor's lines they would inevitably cut mine. Now that all the lines are buried, I have had no issues. I will consider Google Fiber when it gets here since it supposedly uses hybrid WDM-PON which is more reliable/consistent while AT&T uses GPON. There are times when I notice the speed is reduced but generally it's plenty fast.
While I don't have the service, I did consider it, since it's in my neighborhood. I decided against it mainly because of two reasons. The first is they require a contract. I general I think if you have a good product/service then you shouldn't have to lock in customers. The second issue I have is that they data caps.
The contract is only a year, and the etf is $150 prorated per month so it's not bad at all.
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Originally Posted by bingocat1000
I doubt you "need" increased bandwidth at your home right now. We have the 50 Mbps plan from Time Warner and it works fine for everything. The reason we're eventually switching to Google Fiber is that they charge the same price we pay for Time Warner but Google gives you more bandwidth. Wait for Google...
That's good for you. I'm uploading 4k video to youtube, and a 2 minute video took close to an hour to upload. I'm on the 200/15 plan and the upload is garbage. Even with 200mbps down I get quite a bit of loading with 4k videos. Speedtest shows I get 200-230 almost every time too. So yes I do need more bandwith, especially upload.
Thanks for the input everyone. I will sign up and keep TW for a couple weeks in case there are issues.
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