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AT&T Bringing $180/Month 5-Gigabit Internet to 70 Cities
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yes under kab conditions in a fareday cage with refferebce hw running optimised sw, i wonder what the troughout will be in a noisy urban aniviroment possebly with a hall between the ap and the hser device with aos and device radios built on a budget ( wich will be the case for ost home equipment). My tottaly un educated quess would be <10% of the advertised troughput, if not<5 which poypts it way below 1oGbps etherenet( wich might be reaching home users soon.) so on less you need 1gbps+un yout tablet, or you landlord disallows running cables wiered still might have a keg up on wifi esp since a 10Gbps erhernet run delivers a fixed and predicrablespid eith minnimal jitter
I currently have 1gbps fiber and as a computational scientist who is working from home and using some of the largest computers in the world… I can saturate it when pulling down results (can be TB in size - but I usually don’t download anything over a few tens of GB and remotely process the bigger ones) or pushing up models. I could certainly use more at times…
I have friends that do visual FX for movies… they can easily saturate their pipes pushing and pulling 4k+ video.
With the proliferation of people working from home these kinds of large pipes will continue to be important.
Edit: as far as Wi-Fi… I have ethernet through my whole house and have plugs everywhere I need them to be…
I run fiber in my house and have a 10gb network. I work with alrge data sets at work and this makes it much more manageable to do my work
This is getting better though. I live in a small town in Idaho (60k people)… and we have multiple choices for fiber and one option for 1gbps cable.
Lesser of two evils where I am at. AT&T, Sonic which in my area uses AT&T lines so AT&T still gets my money, or Comcast. Comcast is just as bad in every way and are limited to 40mb up with a data cap for higher cost. I am happy with AT&T fiber
One of the big advantages of fiber from either AT&T or Verizon's FiOS is it's symmetrical. So if you pay for a 500mbit speed connection, for example? You get 500mbits/second for your UPLOAD as well as your DOWNLOAD speed. Current limitations in the standards used by cable providers for broadband limit them to only offering you maybe 20-40mbits/second as the upload speed, even on a "gigabit" plan.
But also? The people I know paying for these multi-gig speed connections are hosting servers of some sort at home. For example, you might have Plex set up to stream your video/movie/music collection, and perhaps you invited your relatives or family members no longer living at home to be able to use it. If you want that to work well even when several people are trying to use it at once, and you want some bandwidth left to do things yourself without noticing they're all streaming from you? This is the solution.
Because some people have more than one machine at their house. I have at least 4 PC/Macs, PS4s, Nintendo Switches and such downloading stuff at the same time.
Holy cow, how were you even able to post this? jk
You should be able to use your own equipment on any service and avoid the fees.
Well, my experience was with wireless… luckily where I live I have a choice for landline: frontier (formerly VZ fios) or Cox, well I got fios but it is pricey, like $80 for 150/150
I have symmetric gigabit. If you're shooting 4k60 on the iPhone with iCloud Photos on, it'll happily saturate the upload.
It's also freaking amazing for Xbox & Steam updates. The App Store's CDN isn't fast enough to take advantage of it, but I'm have my iMac handling Content Caching for that.
Without WiFi 6, but with a good network of APs, I get 500Mbps up or down with my Apple devices anywhere in the house.
It's also freaking amazing for Xbox & Steam updates. The App Store's CDN isn't fast enough to take advantage of it, but I'm have my iMac handling Content Caching for that.
Without WiFi 6, but with a good network of APs, I get 500Mbps up or down with my Apple devices anywhere in the house.
Odd. I have the same plan in Chicago and its $100/mo. You sure that's not a promo?
It is indeed total BS. The northeastern US is like England or Holland for population density; the midwest and mid-south and Pacific Coast like France or Spain. It's not as though we're asking for multi-gigabit fiber to hit every farmstead in eastern Wyoming, though paradoxically folks like that are now getting very solid wireless service in many cases.
And many of the deficiencies are in major cities. I'm in a dense Chicago lakefront neighborhood, and AT&T long ago gave up serving the neighborhood; they max out at 1.5 megabits. It's Comcast xfinity, with horrible billing policies and extremely variable service and outages galore, or else T-Mobile home wireless with the latency issues that come with trying to multiplex 4G and 5G channels. Them's your options. Google Fiber is finally sniffing around the area and we're looking into getting them into our building and it can't come quickly enough as far as I'm concerned. This latest AT&T thing? A gimmick until they simply provide service, any service, to, you know, their service area.
Northern Scandinavia is more sparsely populated than most parts of the US and you know what? It has great internet service, landline or wireless.
This excuse of America's land area? It's surrender-ism. Pure and simple.
I have 1Gigb internet for about $50 a month and I get about 800 mb normally. Wireless service in the US sucks.
I have AT&T fiber running through my front yard but they'll still only sell me their crappy overpriced DSL. Competition is great, but AT&T is only going to deploy this in areas where there is competition. Where they don't have to compete, they just won't deploy this.Shocking! I'm definitely signing up for this. However the plan seems kinda expensive
Ah yes, Europe, the totally uniform area with identical prices and internet availability.
While certainly not as cheap as the user from Sweden, I feel so fortunate to have recently had 10Gbps installed for $40/mo.
Does anyone have issues with their routing on the backbone ? Currently have spectrum cable and att fiber 300.
Even with multiple users we don’t need 300mbit and will switch back full time to spectrum which I have on a slower speed by choice but somehow spectrum‘s routing appears more efficient (to YouTube, other streaming services etc.) that we prefer cable over fiber. I get that fiber is point to point and technically the better option but in real world application with docsis 3.1 things aren’t all that bad with cable. Quite the opposite for us.
As tech guy I like having a ubiquti router on a cable modem than using a isp provided router but that’s secondary in picking providers.
Even with multiple users we don’t need 300mbit and will switch back full time to spectrum which I have on a slower speed by choice but somehow spectrum‘s routing appears more efficient (to YouTube, other streaming services etc.) that we prefer cable over fiber. I get that fiber is point to point and technically the better option but in real world application with docsis 3.1 things aren’t all that bad with cable. Quite the opposite for us.
As tech guy I like having a ubiquti router on a cable modem than using a isp provided router but that’s secondary in picking providers.
Great for them. Maybe I’ll check them out when they stop targeting me with ads to switch to their fiber, then tell me when I put in my address, that they’ll be happy to provide me with a connection that tops out at a whopping 18Mbps (then they want me to also get their tv, which they recommend a 24Mbps connection or higher). ?♂️?♂️?♂️
By the way, out here in CA, in the highly populated east bay, so not anywhere rural or anything like that. ?♂️?♂️?♂️
By the way, out here in CA, in the highly populated east bay, so not anywhere rural or anything like that. ?♂️?♂️?♂️
Using 1 gig fiber from Sonic here in San Francisco and quite happy with the reliability, performance, and $40/month price. Sonic is significantly cheaper than ATT so will not be switching.
1 gig fiber is more than enough for 99% (closer to 100%) of homes. Paying for anything beyond that is akin to throwing your money away.
1 gig fiber is more than enough for 99% (closer to 100%) of homes. Paying for anything beyond that is akin to throwing your money away.
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