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AT&T ran fiber through my neighborhood. For $75 a month, I can get 40 mb. Seriously, that is it. What's the point of running fiber if there is no CO near enough to provide decent speeds?
Wow. That stinks.
I have had 1 gig at $55/month, from the time the fiber came through. Grandfathered for years.
Proximity to the central office should not be an issue with fiber speed, it's an issue of marketing. The old copper "high speed" DSL was limited to 18,000 cable feet from the CO.
AT&T ran fiber through my neighborhood. For $75 a month, I can get 40 mb. Seriously, that is it. What's the point of running fiber if there is no CO near enough to provide decent speeds?
Something sounds wrong. I was getting 25-30M on AT&T DSL.
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Originally Posted by gemstone1
Proximity to the central office should not be an issue with fiber speed, it's an issue of marketing. The old copper "high speed" DSL was limited to 18,000 cable feet from the CO.
The 18,000 foot limitation is for 22-gauge copper wire POTS service, which is what DSL is limited to using.
Well, how about this - new 5GB service for $125/month. Includes this:
Symmetrical upload and download speeds at 5G
A Wi-Fi 6 router, up to two mesh extenders,
A 10 Gig Fiber jack
One terabyte of cloud storage
No data caps
No annual contracts
5gb upload. Nice. My biggest need for upload is when I sync photos into iCloud (I might come home with 750 photos taken on two different devices after doing home inspections). I wonder what the speed of the cloud system is on their end? Backuos can happen at night So that's not a hige deal, but would be nice to be able to do it faster, anytime.
And, apparently, I should have been quiet about being grandfathered at $59.99/month.
After years ATT just bumped me $5.00 to $64.99. We will be talking.
I would be very interested in hearing other peoples results with Google
We have had AT&T "GigaBit" since January and while the service has been pretty reliable (only one outage lasting over 24 hours) its not great as far as speed
on ookla speedtest we are averaging 200-300 Mbps Down and 32 Mbps Up
I've plugged a laptop directly into the Google Fiber interface box and gotten 950 down, 950 up. Truth in advertising.
I've had similar results with Google fiber as well. We have gigabit switching and can get in the 950s on my wife's work computer which is the only general purpose computing device that we have on a wired connection. I keep meaning to see if there is a speedtest.net app available on Apple TV boxes as we have several in various rooms and all are wired IIRC.
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