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Fiber-based internet is goooood
« on: November 21, 2018, 12:45:52 PM »
AT&T just upgraded my 'hood to fiber service. I signed up the day they announced availability and the install was this morning.

Ohhhh... yeahhhhhh....

Old service was AT&T broadband over legacy copper. Regularly tested at 16/3 (down/up) with 40-45ms ping. Also prone to regular slowdowns, especially on weekends when everyone was home and service was saturated. New service? Point-to-point fiber, new line and all. Test 120/120 with 20ms ping and I'm on the the slowest service option available with fiber. Bandwidth is unreal. Best part? It's $20 less a month than the old service, and that's after the intro rate expires.

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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2018, 12:49:56 PM »
Hi Brad,

Just wanted to leave you a quick note to let you know how much I hate you.


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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2018, 12:52:17 PM »
AT&T sent their sales folks around in September trying to get me to sign up for fiber-to-the-home.  They promised we would see the trucks in the neighborhood putting down fiber in October.  I told them that as soon as FTH was in the neighborhood, I would sign up.
Here it is November, never saw any trucks, and no FTH in the neighborhood.
I think the real reason for their visit was to get me to buy DirectTV from them.  They were pushing that hard along with the FTH, and the FTH was just a smokescreen for DirectTV sales.  Told them I wasn't interested in tying the cord again after we cut it a couple of years ago.
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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2018, 12:57:59 PM »
I did not go with fiber when it came around to our neighborhood about six years ago.  I stayed with analog service over copper. When we moved to our current house, Xfinity/Comcast ran copper coax to all the homes.  I have a modem connected directly to the copper coax and an Ethernet running to the router.  My Dell desktop is connected via Ethernet to the router.  Xfinity recently did some sort of service upgrade.  I was formerly getting 175 MBps down and 24 Mbps up on the desktop and 90 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up on the wireless network.  After the upgrade, and with no additional cost, I am getting 300 Mbps down and 12 Mbps up on the desktop and 160 or so Mbps down and 12 Mbps up on the wireless network.
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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2018, 01:08:31 PM »
FU Brad.

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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2018, 07:25:03 PM »
100/100 Mbps over fiber to the home here. NOT AT&T.
Best i could get from AT&T was 3000/500 PTM DSL for my employee discounted rate of $39 a month. I got the fiber service from my electric Co-op for $48 a month.
Direct TV and 5G will solve all of your broadband problems, really.
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2018, 09:58:30 PM »
Jeez, took you long enough.  We've had gigabit fiber here in kansas city for years.  :-*
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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2018, 10:09:00 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 21, 2018, 07:25:03 PM

Direct TV and 5G will solve all of your broadband problems, really.


DirecTV?

I have a friend in rural Montana who has satellite internet (not DirecTV -- Hughes, I think). She says it's VERY slow. How is DirecTV significantly faster than any other satellite link?
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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2018, 10:11:36 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2018, 11:54:15 PM »
I would KILL for fiber like we had in Bentonville, AR. The drop from fiber to copper was IN our back yard and we were early adopters. OMG at the SPEED and throughput!

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« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2018, 09:36:46 AM »
I wish you guys would all shut up.  :mad:

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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2018, 01:08:37 PM »
5.94 down/ .54 up.

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Re: Fiber-based internet is goooood
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2018, 01:19:17 PM »
AT&T stopped it's high-speed link ONE street down from mine - and despite repeated efforts on my part to get an answer to when they'd be extending the lines, I've never gotten a response.

So . . . I dropped AT&T's DSL and got Spectrum instead.



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« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2018, 08:59:35 PM »
GFY.

46.5/3.4.  But that is when it works at all.  It is super unreliable.  I think we've had techs out a couple dozen times over the last couple years.  And it's always something different they find to fix.
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