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But in general the internet in the bay area kind of sucks? I am in Oakland at the moment and stuck with Comcast. Before in SF I was in a part of town again stuc

But in general the internet in the bay area kind of sucks? I am in Oakland at the moment and stuck with Comcast. Before in SF I was in a part of town again stuck with Comcast. Sure there are some providers rolling out fiber but its pretty slow. Yeah I could use monkey brains/webpass but I have never had a landlord willing to set it up.

birdyrooster 7y ago
ATT offers gigabit for $79.99 tax and fees included in many areas of the Bay Area.
- rconti 7y ago
  "Many areas". I just got gigabit through ATT after years of waiting, and Sonic will be my 2nd gigabit provider in.. a few months. But I live <2mi from Facebook. My in-laws live a couple of blocks from Stanford, and they've got grandfathered SBC DSL at like 6 down and 0.5 up. You can't even ORDER DSL at their house anymore through ATT, they just begrudgingly support it (sort of). Atherton started their own fiber network just to solve for this problem. There's plenty of money and demand for good internet in the bay area. The regulatory environment is killing it, not lack of demand or money.
ldoughty 7y ago
Being "stuck" with Comcast is better than most rural areas in America. Even services like Comcast in many rural areas is many times worse then Comcast in suburbs. ISPs are happy to let the lines rot then to spend a few thousand dollars to repair a cable serving <25 customers.
- nemacol 7y ago
  Rural WV here. My internet in July of 2019 was upgraded from 8/2 to 25/5. Happy days are here at last. No evidence of it, but I think the FCC definition of broadband changing had a lot to do with it.
jdblair 7y ago
It is neighborhood by neighborhood, with the best service in places with AT&T fiber to offer competition with Comcast. I moved from West Oakland, where my choices were 3Mbit DSL or Comcast, to San Jose, where I have gigabit fiber from Sonic (with AT&T plant). AT&T fiber is available up in the hills in Oakland, and there are still parts of SJ without fiber service.

birdyrooster 7y ago

ATT offers gigabit for $79.99 tax and fees included in many areas of the Bay Area.

rconti 7y ago
"Many areas". I just got gigabit through ATT after years of waiting, and Sonic will be my 2nd gigabit provider in.. a few months. But I live <2mi from Facebook. My in-laws live a couple of blocks from Stanford, and they've got grandfathered SBC DSL at like 6 down and 0.5 up. You can't even ORDER DSL at their house anymore through ATT, they just begrudgingly support it (sort of). Atherton started their own fiber network just to solve for this problem. There's plenty of money and demand for good internet in the bay area. The regulatory environment is killing it, not lack of demand or money.

ldoughty 7y ago

Being "stuck" with Comcast is better than most rural areas in America. Even services like Comcast in many rural areas is many times worse then Comcast in suburbs. ISPs are happy to let the lines rot then to spend a few thousand dollars to repair a cable serving <25 customers.

nemacol 7y ago
Rural WV here. My internet in July of 2019 was upgraded from 8/2 to 25/5. Happy days are here at last. No evidence of it, but I think the FCC definition of broadband changing had a lot to do with it.

jdblair 7y ago

It is neighborhood by neighborhood, with the best service in places with AT&T fiber to offer competition with Comcast. I moved from West Oakland, where my choices were 3Mbit DSL or Comcast, to San Jose, where I have gigabit fiber from Sonic (with AT&T plant). AT&T fiber is available up in the hills in Oakland, and there are still parts of SJ without fiber service.