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I don't really understand this American mindset because my current bandwidth "problem" is being "forced" to setup a wired Ethernet network because WiFi isn't en

I don't really understand this American mindset because my current bandwidth "problem" is being "forced" to setup a wired Ethernet network because WiFi isn't enough for cheap 5Gbps FTTH. More importantly, I'm used to ISPs wasting their lobbying on not paying for laying out fiber and their trust and goodwill budget on deceitful and greedy pricing, bad customer care and capricious geographic coverage: if nobody trusts them more toxic types of propaganda are out of the question. What are the communication strategies of American ISPs? Even in monopoly and near-monopoly situations, why do people believe them?

smarx007 5y ago
> cheap 5Gbps FTTH I don't think there is a better way to rub salt into the wound.
- orangepurple 5y ago
  5 gbps signal rate doesn't give you the full story about actual data transfer rates to important services, but its a start. Ran into this problem with AT&T Fiber (1 gbps) in Houston, Texas
  - wil421 5y ago
    I’ve had both AT&T and Comcast 1gbps and never had any noticeable data transfer issues. A lot of things like Usenet downloads were close to saturating the wire speed, close to 100MB per second. Comcast’s upload speed is abysmal (coaxial), AT&T was symmetrical (FTTH). How could I test this?
    - orangepurple 5y ago
      speed.cloudflare.com fast.com In my experience these always tell the truth
      - LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
        Not if your ISP is priotizing your traffic (only) when you go there :-) As it happens all around the world, and has been told here several times. One possible symptom is that your lagging Video conferencing, VPNs, other remote working stuff, even simple down- and uploads to/from whereever are suddenly fast. As long as you are visiting these speedtesting sites.
        orangepurple 5y ago
        So many websites depend on cloudflare that it would be difficult for them to justify prioritizing it and (iirc) Netflix uses fast for content delivery

smarx007 5y ago

> cheap 5Gbps FTTH I don't think there is a better way to rub salt into the wound.

orangepurple 5y ago
5 gbps signal rate doesn't give you the full story about actual data transfer rates to important services, but its a start. Ran into this problem with AT&T Fiber (1 gbps) in Houston, Texas
- wil421 5y ago
  I’ve had both AT&T and Comcast 1gbps and never had any noticeable data transfer issues. A lot of things like Usenet downloads were close to saturating the wire speed, close to 100MB per second. Comcast’s upload speed is abysmal (coaxial), AT&T was symmetrical (FTTH). How could I test this?
  - orangepurple 5y ago
    speed.cloudflare.com fast.com In my experience these always tell the truth
    - LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
      Not if your ISP is priotizing your traffic (only) when you go there :-) As it happens all around the world, and has been told here several times. One possible symptom is that your lagging Video conferencing, VPNs, other remote working stuff, even simple down- and uploads to/from whereever are suddenly fast. As long as you are visiting these speedtesting sites.
      - orangepurple 5y ago
        So many websites depend on cloudflare that it would be difficult for them to justify prioritizing it and (iirc) Netflix uses fast for content delivery