I have no idea. AT&T says
- No price increase at 12 months
- No annual contract
- No data cap
I'll find out in a few months. If it goes up, I cancel and move to Spectrum 200 Mbps for $49.99/mo
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AT&T Bringing $180/Month 5-Gigabit Internet to 70 Cities
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- No price increase at 12 months
- No annual contract
- No data cap
I'll find out in a few months. If it goes up, I cancel and move to Spectrum 200 Mbps for $49.99/mo
Does this include free NSA monitoring of all traffic as revealed by Snowden?
You need to put out a large visible ad if you want AT&T fiber in your neighborhood.
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When my homeowners association dropped their bulk contract with Comcast, I would call or email ATT once a month to ask them to run fiber in our neighborhood. The day finally came when ATT contacted the HOA to get permission to run conduit under everyone’s driveway. I was one of the first adopters. It was a happy day when I called Comcast to tell them I was terminating my service.
People say that the US is a lot larger than European countries, so we can't upgrade our infrastructure. I call BS. Sure, it'll take a lot more resources, but how many millions, if not billions, in profits do the internet & wireless companies bring in every year? They could at least upgrade SOME of the country.Wow what prices.
In Italy, with Vodafone, I pay:
The 2.5 Gbit (FTTH) in Italy costs an average of 24.90 €/month (28.22 $). To say that in the USA the prices are really high.
- 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)
I have honestly stopped trying to figure out who owns whom in the SF Bay Area. In theory, we have "competition," in ISVs, and in practice, everything that goes over cable somehow winds its way back to Xfinity, and and everything that goes over the old copper wires somehow winds its way back to AT&T. Comcast is also involved with both, somehow. It's less the actuality of choice, and really only the appearance of by what I can see.
WiFi 6 units are capable of moving much higher levels of data, but certainly no current WiFi standard can take advantage of 2 gig speed. What is makes this more important is bandwidth capacity. As more and more devices on a network consume bandwidth and have constant demands these devices can only take advantage of a certain percentage of let's say a 500 MBPS or 1 gig connection. With 2 gig, the bandwidth opens up significantly so each device begins to take advantage of it's own individual speed capability rather than only using 45% of it's actual speed because of network limits.
That is pretty much all internet. But yes.
Wired connections. And I do. And many others do. Literally saving hours of time downloading large files. To put 5 GB into perspective, that's 625 Megabytes per second. If you have a 50 GB file that you need to download, it would take about a minute and a half instead of hours. Also, since fiber is the same speed both ways, it would be the same uploading as well. If you upload and download content constantly, this is a massive time saver. Even if the person you are sharing something with doesn't have this speed, you will at least be maxing out whatever download speed you have. Just because you don't see a point, doesn't mean there isn't one. Life is short. Saving time for more important things because you are not endlessly waiting for something is important.
Well, some of them, any way.
Most don't, but those that do, really do.
And everyone saying "but wifi6e..." "but wifi 7..." WiFi NEVER hits the published speeds because the published capabilities only apply under ideal conditions AND only when the payload is being transferred. The thing is ideal conditions are rarely achieved in the real world AND a significant % of the time WiFi is occupied with things other than transferring the payload, like waiting to avoid collisions, recovering from collisions, transferring WiFi headers, waiting for acknowledgements, giving other stations a chance to transmit (whether they need it or not). Actual speeds are, at best ~1/2 published capabilities.
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New subdivision was built behind my home. ATT fiber is available to every home in this new development. The new houses are less than 20 feet from my fence, and every few homes, there is an ATT fiber pedestal in the back yard.
One of these fiber pedestals is 2 feet from my fence. My home is around 50 feet from the fence.
But I can't get ATT fiber to my home, because I'm too far away.
One of these fiber pedestals is 2 feet from my fence. My home is around 50 feet from the fence.
But I can't get ATT fiber to my home, because I'm too far away.
I have AT&T fiber 1GB. Yeah, kinda expensive at $100 a month but it works well and the no data caps are nice. Under load, with 4 total people in the house, under load, i think i hit 75mb/s. Not sure why you need more than 1GB
AT&T today announced the launch of upgraded AT&T Fiber plans, which support speeds of up to 5 Gigabits for some customers. There are two separate plans, one "2 GIG" plan and one "5 GIG" plan, available to new and existing AT&T Fiber subscribers.
According to AT&T, the new plans are available to nearly 5.2 million customers across 70 metro areas including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Miami, and Dallas, with a full list available on AT&T's website.
AT&T Fiber 2 GIG is priced at $110 per month plus taxes, while the highest-speed AT&T Fiber 5 GIG plan is priced at $180 per month plus taxes.
AT&T is enacting a new "straightforward pricing" policy, which means there are no data limits, no equipment fees, no annual contract, and no "deals" that will see prices increase at 12 months. These high-end plans include AT&T ActiveArmor internet security, "next-gen WiFi support," and HBO Max access.
With the launch of these new multi-gigabit internet plans, AT&T is calling itself the "fastest major internet provider." AT&T intends to continue to expand its faster connection speeds to additional customers, with plans to cover 30 million customer locations by the end of 2025.
Article Link: AT&T Bringing $180/Month 5-Gigabit Internet to 70 Cities
Nice knowing that metro areas will have more choices.
Meanwhile, I'm still on cellular at home, no cable, DSL, or any other terrestrial internet available at my location, 12 miles out of town.
This is the company that still won't bring wired broadband or cellular to most of the country.
Their services are concentrated around big cities and along some highways, and that's it.
My mother's home is ~20 minutes outside of St. Louis. The neighborhood has been there since at least the 1970s. They still don't have any AT&T cell towers nearby. The only wired service AT&T offers goes up to just 100 Mbps.
My mother-in-law's home is ~15 minutes outside of the city and never received adequate 2G/EDGE coverage, let alone 3G, 4G/LTE, or 5G. She's still waiting. While AT&T boasts about their upgrades and "new stuff", my family is still waiting to get the "old stuff" in their area... 2G and 3G will be completely shut off without ever making it to them.
AT&T's map shows coverage there, despite only the tail-end of two different towers north and south of her barely providing 1-bar of signal. They sometimes have to go outside just to make a phone call.
AT&T use to offer DSL "up to" 1.5 Mbps, but they have since discontinued their DSL service.
AT&T will keep upgrading the SAME AREAS over and over. In the middle of a city? Watch your perfect coverage get upgraded every 3 years. AT&T will just keep upgrading the same spot like they are putting a dozen coats of paint on the same little spot on the wall. Everything outside of that area will just get neglected.
Their services are concentrated around big cities and along some highways, and that's it.
My mother's home is ~20 minutes outside of St. Louis. The neighborhood has been there since at least the 1970s. They still don't have any AT&T cell towers nearby. The only wired service AT&T offers goes up to just 100 Mbps.
My mother-in-law's home is ~15 minutes outside of the city and never received adequate 2G/EDGE coverage, let alone 3G, 4G/LTE, or 5G. She's still waiting. While AT&T boasts about their upgrades and "new stuff", my family is still waiting to get the "old stuff" in their area... 2G and 3G will be completely shut off without ever making it to them.
AT&T's map shows coverage there, despite only the tail-end of two different towers north and south of her barely providing 1-bar of signal. They sometimes have to go outside just to make a phone call.
AT&T use to offer DSL "up to" 1.5 Mbps, but they have since discontinued their DSL service.
AT&T will keep upgrading the SAME AREAS over and over. In the middle of a city? Watch your perfect coverage get upgraded every 3 years. AT&T will just keep upgrading the same spot like they are putting a dozen coats of paint on the same little spot on the wall. Everything outside of that area will just get neglected.
Kind of reminds me of this last summer, my school district hired an outside company to upgrade the fire alarm system in one of the schools. I talked to one of the guys working, and he saiid that he's been an electrician for over 20 years, and this is the worst wired building he's ever seen. Considering that the school is probably over 100 years, and had a bunch of additions, renovations, etc., I'm not surprised. So much tin the US is so haphazardly put together, and it'll take a whole lot of effort to put it into a somewhat reasonable thing.
Even if it is available in your city, AT&T doesn't have 5Gb fiber running to residences all over the place. How many computer products do people use yet that are 6E? None of Apple products support that as you know, they are just WiFi6 which is perfectly usable. A good triple band router/mesh WiFi6 setup will come close enough to that with multiple GB WiFI on higher 5 Ghz band. Sure you can run out and get the latest quad band routers for that extra little bit more speed if you somehow have 6E gear already. That new $399 Netgear RAXE300 shown in MacRumors only does following.
- New 6GHz AX: 2x2 (Tx/Rx) 1024/256- QAM 20/40/80/160MHz, up to 2.4Gbps. (that's for 2 streams)
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I feel like you should at least be able to offer that to a mid-double-digit percentage of the population before you can make that claim. My quick, possibly wrong math says this is currently available to a max of like 1.5% of the population.
How about they expand their fiber coverage rather than offering speeds that most residential customers have no use for? Where I live the best they are offering is 25 Mbps DSL (and I don't live in a remote area). We could really use some competition here.
I have ATT 1Gig for 59.99. Its unlimited and I get HBO Max included. I think its over kill and sadly when we move to our new house I just bought, it seems only spectrum fiber is available and its 69.99 for 400. I'll be sorry to switch but I don't really do anything that warrants needing 1Gig, even when I download a PS or Xbox game its only about 400-500 down.
I see alot of folks from other countries surprised by our internet costs. A major part of that, besides the joys of capitalism, is the size of our country, more specifically, the expanses of our country in which there are very few people. It is more expensive to distribute internet here than in European countries that are more densely populated.
It’s a bit more expensive to try and cover 4 million square miles. I’m sure that has at least something to do with it.