I'm looking forward to my Fiber from TDSTelecom providing 2Gbps Up/2Gbps down and it's not remotely that expensive.
Chances are if you clicked on internet availability, that’s the dsl availability not fiber. The att site is a bit misleading and even though I have att fiber now, when I click internet availability is says it’s not available at my address. If I route through the menus and go to internet fiber, then it shows up properly.LMAO.... this is what is available in my area.... Ill stick with the Cox Gigablast... View attachment 1948776
My only concern is, how do you find those 100 gb files to download everyday for home networks? All streaming services are highly optimized. You’d have no issues even at 100 mbps or lower. May be gamers need this? Or small businesses??
Funny, living in a village with 1500 inhabitants in Switzerland I am using a cellular plan. Costs zero as I get an extra sim card with my phone subscription. 850Mbit/200Mbit over 5G with no cap, no limits. So yes you can have decent cellular if you live in the right place.You're thinking of cellular plans. This is home internet service, which isn't slowed down to 512kbps. That would be ridiculous haha.
Interesting. It sort of sounds like TDS, which is expanding huge in the Midwest with fiber. They sent us loads of ‘promos’ that they were coming to our neighborhood for install, but our neighbors three blocks to the west of us will not receive that same offer, only they have to be stuck with likes of shady Spectrum.Unfortunately they cherry pick the neighborhoods they deploy to. I live in Madison, WI where we've had AT&T fiber for several years. Most people I know do not live in a service area.
Gamer needs reliable low latency network, not 8000000Gbps network that has a 1s latency and gets disconnected every 5s.gamers need this?
Gotcha beat! Crazy thing is I am in the SF metro area... I guess my street just doesn't have the cables laid.LMAO.... this is what is available in my area.... Ill stick with the Cox Gigablast... View attachment 1948776
It depends on the part of the city, and they’re adding more areas from time to time.I live in San Diego and ATT never offered internet service in my area besides some stupid dial-in. I would love some competition to Spectrum cable that does offer a fair service but prices could be better for the performance.
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.
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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
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.
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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
Point well taken. 6E will be more than enough for most people of course there are always exceptionsThat isn't to say others wouldn't benefit, but before spending more money, one should understand what their true needs are. If everyone is on Wi-Fi, you probably can't get much faster than 700 Mbps even with the best Wi-Fi router.
This is what I hate about the super-duper capitalism of the US. The people and companies are more worried about the bottom line than giving a high quality product/service. I’m all for making some profit so you can reinvest to grow and improve themselves, but they don’t. They just give the C-level execs millions in bonuses and kick the rest of us to the curb. And we’re okay with it.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.
Companies definitely cherry pick where to upgrade broadband, and not in a good way. They tend to choose neighborhoods/areas that are gentrifying and increasing in home values. Here in a California suburb, we only had up to 200 Mbps with shoddy service that would go down with high winds.Unfortunately they cherry pick the neighborhoods they deploy to. I live in Madison, WI where we've had AT&T fiber for several years. Most people I know do not live in a service area.
It's okay if you don't understand it. Those of us who do will happily upgrade when available.What's the point of these? No WiFi can transport this kind of data. And who needs this for workstation-at-home work?
I've never had an issue. In fact, in my time living outside the US and paying much lower telco rates, my service and reliability have been much better.Curious how $12/subscriber pays for workers, maintenance, build-out, upgrades, etc? Seems like at that rate, the telecom's would be losing money.