Wow... What i just saw?? So AT&T charge for its 300MBPS $55 PLUS taxes? So my fiber 200/200 in greece is cheaper than americas. (€26 included taxes)
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AT&T Bringing $180/Month 5-Gigabit Internet to 70 Cities
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I'm happy for the ten people who will be able to take advantage of this.
I'll keep rockin' my 500Mbps service from Google Fiber w/ no issues. Had the 1Gbps service for awhile, but since we use nearly everything on WiFi it was a waste of money.
I'll keep rockin' my 500Mbps service from Google Fiber w/ no issues. Had the 1Gbps service for awhile, but since we use nearly everything on WiFi it was a waste of money.
Meanwhile in high price Switzerland...
Thats about 70$ per month. And it is just normal ethernet, no XGSPON shenanigans...
Thats about 70$ per month. And it is just normal ethernet, no XGSPON shenanigans...
I can still remember the early 1990s when I went from a 28.8 Kbps modem to a 56K modem !
Currently using 1 Gbps fiber; the bottleneck is Wi-Fi !
Currently using 1 Gbps fiber; the bottleneck is Wi-Fi !
Wired connections can, and it allows you to have much more available bandwidth to share between all your devices.
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Shocking! I'm definitely signing up for this. However the plan seems kinda expensive 
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Same here. My city has had Fiber coverage for YEARS, however my neighborhood does not. I've been looking for a reason to drop Xfinity for years now, but AT&T's basic internet can't touch Xfinity's speeds ?
I've worked from home for 21 1/2 years. I pay around $140 to Cox for 500/30 with no alternatives where we live. I have zero need for 2 - 5Gb but I would be thrilled to pay $110 for 2Gb to get away from Cox who keeps raising prices almost annually.
your country is a fraction of the size, infrastructure costs are much more in the US due to the shear size of deployments and maintenance needed.
WiFi 6... and people/homes can have multiple devices using fiber bandwidth.
It's odd to find ourselves rooting for a company like AT&T. That's how absolutely horrid cable companies are in the USA.
Larger country with more customers = more revenue, too. Of course it's easier in smaller, denser countries, but the U.S. is still a disaster for broadband. AT&T is just now rolling out 21st century speeds and they're charging two to three times what they would in an open market.
Expensive, but would be cool to be able to stream uncompressed (4K blu-ray quality) movies with the best audio/visuals. As is, I'm barely taking advantage of a single Gigabit.
Like others have said, I have a pretty big home network. I just logged into my firewall and I currently have 36 active devices, and that's with everyone out of the house minus 1 sick kid and our nanny. We're a blended family with 7 kids, kids that have grown up with a dad in the IT field. So we have a production level firewall with multiple subnets. Things like smart lights and switches, watches, etc and various crap on a IOT network, an office subnet where I have a site to site VPN for business use to our office, a standard subnet (computers, iPads, etc), and a Guest network. Anyway, we see a baseline load when everyone is home on a weekend of about 30mb/s...which spikes to a few hundred from time to time or when some new game is loaded or if a backup is happening. We use between 2.5 and 3TB per month of transfer. Couldn't imagine someone "needing" 5 gig at home, unless you're running a NAS across the open Internet. LOL. Heck, I have a symmetrical Gig circuit here at the office that supports 286 people and we don't saturate that.
On edit: With all that being said, this is all marketing. If they have the infrastructure, they'll advertise it because we live in a society where bigger and more is better, even if someone can't use it. Just once though I'd prefer them spend their time rolling out full gig to the rest of the country and not concentrate on bragging rights for small sections of cities. I'd also like to see increased upload bandwidth. It seems that many are getting 300mb/s+ download but only 5-10 upload. Yeah, for streaming upload is irrelevant, but general network performance will benefit from more upload speed.
On edit: With all that being said, this is all marketing. If they have the infrastructure, they'll advertise it because we live in a society where bigger and more is better, even if someone can't use it. Just once though I'd prefer them spend their time rolling out full gig to the rest of the country and not concentrate on bragging rights for small sections of cities. I'd also like to see increased upload bandwidth. It seems that many are getting 300mb/s+ download but only 5-10 upload. Yeah, for streaming upload is irrelevant, but general network performance will benefit from more upload speed.
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I've been fortunate enough to have AT&T Fiber at my current home for the last 4 years. Its easily the best product AT&T has at the moment. I have the entire house wired for ethernet, and any device that can be hard wired to the network, is wired in. Both my wife and I work from home, and I work in the design/media space, so fast connectivity is crucial for what I do. I am currently paying $100 a month for the 1gbps and its fantastic. I am not sure I can justify the 5gbps speed, but the extra $10 to double my speed is a no brainer.
The only benefit to gamers is that they could download a 70 gigabyte game in 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes.
So maybe once a month that additional speed could provide a small benefit.
It probably costs the service provider about the same to offer 5Gbps as 1Gbps, because the total amount transferred isn’t likely to change much.
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Really though? I mean, Sweden is usually touted as broadband-cheap, but 1GBit costs around $60/month. $12 for 10GBit seems unusally cheap.
The point of these new higher speed plans is so AT&T can eliminate their lower speed plans and then charge us more.
When AT&T rolled out fiber to my area a few years ago, there were 3 plans: 100, 300, and 1000 Mbps. The plans now are 300, 500, and 1000 Mbps, and the lower speed plans are more than before.
When I signed up for the 300 Mbps plan, I got it for $45/mo. I just checked right now and it's $60/mo ($55/mo with autopay and paperless billing) for new subscribers.
At some point, the 300 Mbps plan will be eliminated and AT&T will do us a favor and automatically "upgrade" us to their 500 Mbps plan ($70/mo or $65/mo with autopay and paperless billing).
P2P traffic, private streaming, server synchronization, backup, cloud drive, security feed, etc.
In one way and only one way it’s like xfiinity and their fiber. It’s great if you can get it. Still spoty coverage. That often doesn’t make sense why it’s some place and not others.But if you can get it. It’s great.