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IMHO google fiber is the reason isps in the us offer gigabit.

by thetinguy 6y ago

dylz 6y ago
Unfortunately most cable providers offer "gigabit" where upstream is sub-5 to 10 Mbit
- space_ghost 6y ago
  I've had AT&T gigabit fiber in Louisville for four years now and it's fully symmetric. I frequently run speed checks and I always see uploads close to 1gbit.
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  - richiebful1 6y ago
    I was amazed to see gigabit AT&T in the Red River Gorge (Stanton, KY) when I was there last month. I have a feeling the public-owned fiber backbone (Kentucky Wired) has something to do with that level of accessibility
  - zbrozek 6y ago
    I lust after such a thing. But here only AT&T copper is available, with a max speed of 20 mbps, and apparently they're no longer accepting new accounts: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/10/03/att-dsl-internet-digital-subscriber-line-outdated/5880219002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/10/03/att... This leaves me with zero options for wired broadband.
- ethanwillis 6y ago
  Recently I got an advertisement from t-mobile (as one of their customers) about their home internet offering. I currently have gigabit service through comcast/xfinity. Tons of stability issues, but that aside even in the best of times it's as you say.. super low upload bandwidth. And even worse they still impose a terabyte bandwidth cap on me unless I pay them an additional $30/mo. Well, I looked into the t-mobile internet. It's an LTE router, no bandwidth cap, a flat $50/mo total... and the upload bandwidth I get is around 40-60Mb/s. Download bandwidth between 60-100Mb/s.
untog 6y ago
In my area FIOS is the reason. Verizon finally rolled it it out and as if by magic existing providers suddenly found a lot of bandwidth in their back pockets.
- eli 6y ago
  In DC I moved about 8 blocks down the road, from a neighborhood wired for Comcast and Fios to one where Comcast was the only option. The Comcast only street had worse service and prices about 50% higher.
adrianmonk 6y ago
Certainly seems so in Austin, TX. Google Fiber arrived, and now Spectrum has "940 Mbps Internet", AT&T Fiber has "Internet 1000", and Grande (regional cable company) has "Gig Internet". And in neighborhoods where they overlap, some of those providers have prices (introductory offers?) that are ~$10/month cheaper than in other neighborhoods.

IMHO google fiber is the reason isps in the us offer gigabit.

dylz 6y ago

Unfortunately most cable providers offer "gigabit" where upstream is sub-5 to 10 Mbit

space_ghost 6y ago
I've had AT&T gigabit fiber in Louisville for four years now and it's fully symmetric. I frequently run speed checks and I always see uploads close to 1gbit.
- deleted 6y ago
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- richiebful1 6y ago
  I was amazed to see gigabit AT&T in the Red River Gorge (Stanton, KY) when I was there last month. I have a feeling the public-owned fiber backbone (Kentucky Wired) has something to do with that level of accessibility
- zbrozek 6y ago
  I lust after such a thing. But here only AT&T copper is available, with a max speed of 20 mbps, and apparently they're no longer accepting new accounts: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/10/03/att-dsl-internet-digital-subscriber-line-outdated/5880219002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/10/03/att... This leaves me with zero options for wired broadband.
ethanwillis 6y ago
Recently I got an advertisement from t-mobile (as one of their customers) about their home internet offering. I currently have gigabit service through comcast/xfinity. Tons of stability issues, but that aside even in the best of times it's as you say.. super low upload bandwidth. And even worse they still impose a terabyte bandwidth cap on me unless I pay them an additional $30/mo. Well, I looked into the t-mobile internet. It's an LTE router, no bandwidth cap, a flat $50/mo total... and the upload bandwidth I get is around 40-60Mb/s. Download bandwidth between 60-100Mb/s.

untog 6y ago

In my area FIOS is the reason. Verizon finally rolled it it out and as if by magic existing providers suddenly found a lot of bandwidth in their back pockets.

eli 6y ago
In DC I moved about 8 blocks down the road, from a neighborhood wired for Comcast and Fios to one where Comcast was the only option. The Comcast only street had worse service and prices about 50% higher.

adrianmonk 6y ago

Certainly seems so in Austin, TX. Google Fiber arrived, and now Spectrum has "940 Mbps Internet", AT&T Fiber has "Internet 1000", and Grande (regional cable company) has "Gig Internet". And in neighborhoods where they overlap, some of those providers have prices (introductory offers?) that are ~$10/month cheaper than in other neighborhoods.