Gigabit internet club, brag thread.

[Hugo Drax]

All I can say is wow! The best thing is being able to vpn to your home and have full gig upload capacity. So who here joined the gigabit club? They literally drop fiber right to my office. Much safer when it comes to lightning risk vs copper based internet.

I remember when i thought checking stock quotes on an 8bit computer with acoustic couplers and 1200baud modem was cool as heck.

 

[SKORPI0]

Is there a monthly cap like 1024GB/month?

 

[Hugo Drax]

Is there a monthly cap like 1024GB/month?

No caps for AT&T Fibre 1000 service. It would be stupid to put a cap on such a service but you never know. But as of today they have no caps.

 

[Sonikku]

I seem to remember comcast would keep upping their speeds and brag about it, but keep the cap the same.

 

[Tweak155]

All I can say is wow! The best thing is being able to vpn to your home and have full gig upload capacity. So who here joined the gigabit club? They literally drop fiber right to my office. Much safer when it comes to lightning risk vs copper based internet.

I remember when i thought checking stock quotes on an 8bit computer with acoustic couplers and 1200baud modem was cool as heck.

lol @ bold. But seriously, my current internet of 120/15 is more than enough for what I do so I'm not jelly, however if AT&T would run fiber to my house, I would switch just to stop paying Spectrum. They are my only choice for cable internet and I hate them.

AT&T right now only has 40 or 50mbps plan right now for my area.

 

[DietDrThunder]

lol @ bold. But seriously, my current internet of 120/15 is more than enough for what I do so I'm not jelly, however if AT&T would run fiber to my house, I would switch just to stop paying Spectrum. They are my only choice for cable internet and I hate them.

AT&T right now only has 40 or 50mbps plan right now for my area.

Yeah, I just signed up for the 50mbps down, 25mbps up for $30 a month plus taxes.

There is a new neighborhood that has gigabit internet, but then again the HOA dues are $360 a month and the minimum home value is $650,000+. But they do roll your garbage cans to the street for you, mow your front lawn, and maintain your front beds. For an extra charge of $75 a month they will mow your back yard as well. Of course the lots are 60ft by 120ft, and with the size of the houses, there really isn't much yard. They also have a community pool, gym, and maker space.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

edit: had this and nef thread tab open, accidently neffed in here

 

[Tweak155]

Yeah, I just signed up for the 50mbps down, 25mbps up for $30 a month plus taxes.

There is a new neighborhood that has gigabit internet, but then again the HOA dues are $360 a month and the minimum home value is $650,000+. But they do roll your garbage cans to the street for you, mow your front lawn, and maintain your front beds. For an extra charge of $75 a month they will mow your back yard as well. Of course the lots are 60ft by 120ft, and with the size of the houses, there really isn't much yard. They also have a community pool, gym, and maker space.

The bigger problem with the current 50mbps plan here is that it is a pretty low data cap, otherwise I very well may have switched and taken the speed hit.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

@drax ... Just remember, the AT&T Fiber is sold through their U-verse platform and for the past decade that means any data transiting that platform is their data to do whatever the hell they want with. I would suggest using a VPN service that also encrypts DNS traffic through 3rd party means. On good days I still get 250-500 Mbps diwnstream through the offshore VPN service using my local VPN hub.

 

[Muse]

I'm still limping along on sub 5mbps DSL. Sonic.net has been promising me that by October they will offer me gigabit fiber here and I will get on board then. Should be no cap and they tout internet neutrality. I figure my video streaming will be fantastic (hope!!!), but figure there will be sites that load slow because their servers are slow. At least I'll know who's to blame.

Read a story about Fastway internet, I think yesterday in business section of S.F. Chronicle (don't know what day). They provide systems that the big internet providers use to speed up their presentation, e.g. Amazon, Google, the big boys.

I pay about $60/mo. right now for my 5mbps DSL from Sonic.net, and they throw in continental US landline phone in the bargain. I'm told I'll be paying about $10 more with the gigabit. Sonic will rent you a SmartRG SR515ac VDSL2 FTTH wireless modem / router for 9.50/mo. I figure I will rent theirs, at least to start, because they will have monitoring systems embedded in it that I won't have if I supply my own modem, which won't be cheap to buy (I was looking only a few weeks ago and what I saw was around $200 IIRC for the same modem, but it wouldn't have Sonic's monitoring system).

 

[VirtualLarry]

Muse, check out DSLExtreme. They now offer a fiber based offering, they are an AT&T-region CLEC, as far as I can tell.

They used to be a Verizon CLEC in this area, I used them for a while, they're decent. Had no issues with them.

 

[Zeze]

I'm not in my teens anymore. I dont even have the need for a gigabit.

I pay $50 for 50/50 fios internet only. I think they offer gigabit for new customers now.

I know I can just spend an hour on the phone to get that gigabit. But I'm too lazy and it's just not compelling enough.

I mean I stream everything and dont even download crap much today.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've got it. When the connection is up, it's really nice.

 

[Darwin333]

I have Uverse 45, they offer 75 for the same price or I could switch to Cox and get 300 but my current plan doesn't have a cap. If I switch plans with ATT or move to Cox I would have a cap so I'd rather keep what I have without a cap. Friggen $10 for an additional 50GB if you go over is absurd.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm not in my teens anymore. I dont even have the need for a gigabit.

This.

If I were married, and had a bunch of streaming, gaming, teens or something, then I could see the need for Gigabit.

Or maybe, work-from home, remote-desktop, VPN, that kind of thing, I could see. (Although, you'll need a "dedicated appliance" to run a VPN tunnel at Gigabit line speeds, consumer routers can barely route/NAT Gigabit, even with hardware NAT. My AC68R only does 300Mbit/sec using software routing, without VPN overhead. And that's a dual-core CPU in that router.)

Still, it was nice to have for a while, but largely useless... unless you're downloading BIG files, from Microsoft.com or Steam, it's not going to help other smaller, more-congested servers. Most Linux ISOs, from SourceForge, etc., still only downloaded at 10-50Mbit/sec. Torrents of Linux ISOs couldn't max the pipe either.

So I decided that paying $100+ per month for a Gigabit line was folly, and signed up using a new customer promo for 100/100 from FIOS, $39.99/mo. For a single guy like me, on a limited budget, that's way more my style.

I'm thinking, in the very near future, all local ISP pipes are going to be Gigabit, technology permitting. Then they will just charge us by the GB for transfers. (Hopefully only pennies each GB.)

That would seem to be a fairer way to charge for internet.

(Shades of "the phone company" charging by the minute for LD calls. Isn't that why we invented the internet?)

 

[jlee]

This.

If I were married, and had a bunch of streaming, gaming, teens or something, then I could see the need for Gigabit.

Or maybe, work-from home, remote-desktop, VPN, that kind of thing, I could see. (Although, you'll need a "dedicated appliance" to run a VPN tunnel at Gigabit line speeds, consumer routers can barely route/NAT Gigabit, even with hardware NAT. My AC68R only does 300Mbit/sec using software routing, without VPN overhead. And that's a dual-core CPU in that router.)

Still, it was nice to have for a while, but largely useless... unless you're downloading BIG files, from Microsoft.com or Steam, it's not going to help other smaller, more-congested servers. Most Linux ISOs, from SourceForge, etc., still only downloaded at 10-50Mbit/sec. Torrents of Linux ISOs couldn't max the pipe either.

So I decided that paying $100+ per month for a Gigabit line was folly, and signed up using a new customer promo for 100/100 from FIOS, $39.99/mo. For a single guy like me, on a limited budget, that's way more my style.

I'm thinking, in the very near future, all local ISP pipes are going to be Gigabit, technology permitting. Then they will just charge us by the GB for transfers. (Hopefully only pennies each GB.)

That would seem to be a fairer way to charge for internet.

(Shades of "the phone company" charging by the minute for LD calls. Isn't that why we invented the internet?)

lmao, oh...if only that was how life worked.

 

[repoman0]

FIOS gigabit here, $80/month split between me and my girlfriend. It’s largely useless for us but the other speed tiers are 100/100 for $40, which is kind of slow, and 500/500 for $75, which is only 5 bucks cheaper.

Plus I spent all this time and effort routing my house with CAT6 and setting up a switch/home server so I need to justify it somehow.

I compromise by having a ghetto $210/year cell phone plan with 2GB monthly caps

 

[Mayne]

Am I allowed to brag with out this connection?

I was one of the few thousand people to get a cable modem way back in the day..no one in the world had it but me...and the novelty still hasn't worn off since..

 

[Mayne]

spent many an evening trying to download porn...wasn't easy. Had a friend teach me thru icq how to download games..and of course there were these forums then and others like straight dope and hardwarcencetral.com and other sites.

 

[Mayne]

but having the first cable modem in the world was a life changing experience for me.

 

[Zeze]

but having the first cable modem in the world was a life changing experience for me.

Yea.. my first 2 mbps experience was amazing from 48.8K modem.

That was 45x faster!!!

 

[BarkingGhostar]

As a retail sales person in 1996 going to a US Robotics seminar for their upcoming 53K modem, I was stoked. Then in late 1999 I got Charter cable modem at 1.5 Mbps before moving out of my apartment and into a new home with BellSouth's IFITL at 1.8Mbps in 2001. I then switched to Adelphia in 2003 for 3M service, then 6M and then got bought by Comcast which finally got me to 24M service for $69/month. Finally AT&T upgraded BellSouth's legacy IFITL platform and I got 1000 Mbps in Spring 2017.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm only at 600/40 right now. The download speed isn't bad at all, and I have no caps; however, I'd love for the upload speed to be a bit better -- especially when it comes to trying to upload media such as YouTube videos. I should be getting access to fiber at some point, but it has really been a waiting game.

Oh, and given that 1Gbps symmetrical fiber will be $40 a month cheaper, I'll be quite happy with that.

 

[Wreckem]

I’ve had ATT 1Gig for about 3 years and through three different moves. I won’t give it up because anything less has caps and because I stream everything in 4K I routinely go over 1000GB. Right now I’m 11 days in my billing cycle and already have hit 420GB.

Suddenly link recently launched their asymmetrical 1Gig. It’s not any cheaper and I do a lot of uploading.

 

[aigomorla]

No caps for AT&T Fibre 1000 service.

However it states that there is in there contract. Go read it carefully if you didn't see it.
I remember i got into an argument at the store as i was going to sign up for the gigafiber.

It went something like this:
Me: why does it say there is a cap limit?
ATT: oh thats for the lower tier
Me: it doesnt have any exclusions in regards to the gigabit
ATT: no one has been charged for it yet.
Me: can you ask your manager to write an exclusion then or have someone write me an exclusion.
ATT: no... sorry cant do it.
Me: sigh.... im staying on specturm where it says on contract. Unlimited and never throttled, nor metered.

So as others have said, its for when ATT decides to meter you, you cant fight back, because they will say it says it on the contract.
Or they do something like throttle you after you used up X amount of Data.