Just want to say… even on the cell plan, AT&T stopped with the soft cap over a year ago in response to T-Mobile lifting theirs a few months prior. And Verizon then recently stopped theirs too.
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Just want to say… even on the cell plan, AT&T stopped with the soft cap over a year ago in response to T-Mobile lifting theirs a few months prior. And Verizon then recently stopped theirs too.
ATT fiber to the home plans are symmetric. I’m on a 300 mbps plan, but I actually get 375 mbps.
This is for larger, shared living spaces. A spot with 5+ family members or roommates all taking classes/working/gaming/streaming from home can easily benefit from 5gb of shared bandwidth, across multiple wireless APs etc.
"Who needs this" is a short term question. This is a long term infrastructure issue. Most families probably don't need this /now/ but if the technology is there, content providers, programers, hardware manufacturers, et all, can take advantage of this increased speed and innovate and offer bigger and better. I have 1gig at home. My wife works from home as a corporate accountant with lots of video conferencing. Tons of smart home stuff. 2 kids. 1 gig is just right for us... for now.
My current AT&T U-verse Internet plan:
With my current plan I own the wireless gateway. If I upgrade to a blazingly fast 1.5 or 3.0 Mbps plan, then I also have to pay equipment rental fees ($10/month, not included in the prices shown below):
You need to put out a large visible ad if you want AT&T fiber in your neighborhood.
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Older countries also have a much harder time rolling out infrastructure with trying to get the cables under roads and the permits required. We are past the point where a king can just say "We are building a straight road with a internet line right from the capital to the north city". You have all kinds of weird lines following weird 'natural' roads instead of grid cities with multiple lanes of traffic even and miles of empty cheap land.
I was on a measly 50 Mbps connection with ATT and then they upgraded my family to 500 Mbps and it is actually cheaper than what we were paying for 50 Mbps. It's insane!
For uncompressed 24FPS 4K HDR, you’d need 6 Gigabit just the video alone (or half that if you’re using standard 4:2:0 chroma subsampling). Blu-Ray is not uncompressed, it's just less compressed than streaming video. I would like higher quality streaming, though.
WiFi 7 is going to get > 30Gbps total throughput. Not sure what you're talking about.
My current residents has a 1/2.5/10GbE (not 5GbE) capable router and the network is mostly 10GbE with some aggregation for 20GbE.
I have AT&T Small Business Fiber and I just "upgraded" from a 1Gbps/200Mbps plan to 1Gbps symmetrical for a reduction in per/month costs of ~40%.
It matters for me. I'm a videographer who regularly uploads 50-75gb video files and work from home wasn't possible until I got ATT Gigabit. Our previous top-tier Cox internet had great download speeds but uploading files of that size was impossible. And wifi isn't part of the process. Hard-wired ethernet for this kind of work.
I think most people will find that their existing routers/firewalls won't support the throughput.
What could be interesting is if AT&T leveraged their own routers to provide these speeds in the home, but also opened up a publicly accessible wifi MESH network that anyone within range could use. In Tampa, Spectrum is a larger provider that has WiFi hotspots all over the city. If you use their internet service, you have access to their hotspots.
What could be interesting is if AT&T leveraged their own routers to provide these speeds in the home, but also opened up a publicly accessible wifi MESH network that anyone within range could use. In Tampa, Spectrum is a larger provider that has WiFi hotspots all over the city. If you use their internet service, you have access to their hotspots.
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Yeah, a lot of internet plans have horrible upload speeds. 200 mbps Xfinity limits uploads to less than 10 mbps.
Were you grandfathered into the 500/30 plan because I have Cox and don't see it in their lineup of packages (it's now 500/10). I wouldn't mind getting that plan (if available) as I have the 300/30 which they don't market anymore.
These articles are always a joke at least here in GA what you have is what you have if you are anywhere outside of the the Atlanta perimeter. Xfinity pays big bucks and gives the cities around Atlanta huge discounts to not approve letting anyone else in.
I live on the border of Canton and Woodstock but I'm in Woodstock. Windstream Fiber stops at my neighborhood entrance as the first Woodstock neighborhood. They flat out aren't allowed to build into Woodstock.
I check every six months Verizon AT&T Windstream are completely blocked.
They argue I can get 50mb Windstream DSL. Winstream DSL and ancient and buggy and it's a never-ending war every time I bring up trying to get them to pull fiber in the neighborhood. They suck and are unreliable is always the response because people aren't technical enough to understand that they are completely different technologies and divisions of the company. If I can't even get the neighborhood to understand I'll never get things to change with the Xfinity lockdown.
I live on the border of Canton and Woodstock but I'm in Woodstock. Windstream Fiber stops at my neighborhood entrance as the first Woodstock neighborhood. They flat out aren't allowed to build into Woodstock.
I check every six months Verizon AT&T Windstream are completely blocked.
They argue I can get 50mb Windstream DSL. Winstream DSL and ancient and buggy and it's a never-ending war every time I bring up trying to get them to pull fiber in the neighborhood. They suck and are unreliable is always the response because people aren't technical enough to understand that they are completely different technologies and divisions of the company. If I can't even get the neighborhood to understand I'll never get things to change with the Xfinity lockdown.
Don’t let these prices fool you. I’ve paid $110 for ~5 mbps and capped at 50gb per month satellite.
That is FAST and EXPENSIVE…
I do not get ATT where I live, and if I did, I would not subscribe to them. I’ve sworn to myself that I will never ever give ATT a cent of my own money, they sucked back then, and they still suck… so do most internet and cell providers in the US… but I’ve drawn my line with them
I do not get ATT where I live, and if I did, I would not subscribe to them. I’ve sworn to myself that I will never ever give ATT a cent of my own money, they sucked back then, and they still suck… so do most internet and cell providers in the US… but I’ve drawn my line with them
Over the last 2 years, AT&T offered $15/month discount on fiber plans on the first year. It has since been replaced with $200 prepaid gift card. Are you certain your $45/month price isn't set to rise to $60/month after a year?
Wow what prices. 
In Italy, with Vodafone, I pay:
In Italy, with Vodafone, I pay:
- 17.00 €/month (19.26 $) for the 200/20 Mbit VDSL
- 9.99 €/month (11.32 $) for the VF mobile SIM (UNLIMITED 5G Internet, unlimited calls and SMS)
It’s all about having enough bandwidth for large groups of people connected to the same network (i.e. businesses with employees)
Wi-Fi 6E can hit 7 gigabit. Normal Wi-Fi 6 can get higher then a gigabit. It could also be used across channels with mesh networking. 4 APs with 4 devices could saturate it.
They are paving the way to streaming high quality lightfield video to our AR headsets.
Our house is about 200 yards from a cemetery. The cemetery has AT&T fiber coverage, but we do not. ?
It is to shut up comcast with their ****** claims about fastest Internet. Im sick and tired of comcast spreading this nonsense when their uploads speeds are f…. laughable
