Gigabit internet club, brag thread.

[urvile]

I am currently rocking 107mbps down and 40 up. Which aint bad for the land of aus.

The funny thing is my download bandwidth is so high that my ISPs algorithms decided I was getting speeds so far below my 100mbps plan that I deserved a refund. Once I went above a hundred it must of reset. So they thought I was getting 7mbps.

Not that I can complain this is VDSL2 on copper. Fiber to the node admittedly. As long as I can stream midget porn though. I am happy. Right? Yeah.

 

[Belegost]

Yea, anything less than 1G symmetric just seems uncivilized. The big thing I recommend, get a good router, I was using my Orbi mesh for the router, but wired speeds were not as good as I expected. Swapped in a Microtik wired router, and this is what I see regularly now.

 

[OverVolt]

I'm rocking 110mbps/35mbps in West Virginia.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was so excited to get 50/30 lol. I'm SORTA jelly that you can get gig in the states, but TBH I find the speed I have is more than good enough for me. Most ISPs don't allow to host servers or even provide static IP blocks, so not like you can use it to start a small hosting company or something.

 

[MrSquished]

I got gigiabit FIOS when I moved in January. It's fantastic when you get a game on steam or playstation network and can play it minutes later. But totally not necessary for a 2 person household like mine. Whenever the promo period ends, if that's what we're in, I'll switch back to something slower.

Edit. Seems we are locked into this price for another 18 months. Guess I'll be stuck with speeds like this for awhile

 

[MrSquished]

Just downloaded SimCity in less than a minute

 

[Aikouka]

Yea, anything less than 1G symmetric just seems uncivilized. The big thing I recommend, get a good router, I was using my Orbi mesh for the router, but wired speeds were not as good as I expected. Swapped in a Microtik wired router, and this is what I see regularly now.

I've got a Netgear WNDR7000, which is considered pretty good for a consumer router, but there is one thing... getting high speeds requires you to enable hardware acceleration. In this case, hardware acceleration is cut-through forwarding, which can disable some router features due to forwarding the packet rather than running extra processing on it. I upgraded mine to the Advanced Tomato firmware, and I was a bit perplexed as to why my speeds weren't great. Now, I didn't check it immediately after the upgrade, so I wasn't necessarily putting two and two together. Fortunately, someone mentioned the setting, I was able to find it in Advanced Tomato, and everything went back to normal.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I moved to a newly built apartment a few months ago and jumped onboard with Centurylink 1G fiber for $85/month.

I absolutely can't and won't give it up if I can help it. We can do literally anything and no one in the household experiences a lack of throughput or buffering issues anymore. Also from Steam I regularly see 85MiB/s download rates, so the massively bloated modern game sizes are meaningless. No data cap! Woo.

I got the GT-AC5300 and have 940/940 on wired easily. The VPN on the thing is alright, from work (with gigabit fiber from a different provider) to home via Open VPN I see around 150Mbit/s throughput, which is plenty for any of the stuff I use it for. Remote server management, accessing my fileserver, etc.

I decided with this kind of throughput it was time to buy a domain so I've got the DDNS on the router setup via Google Domains. Neat stuff.

 

[VirtualLarry]

You'all are making me feel inadequate, having moved from Gigabit down to 100/100. TBH, I really couldn't tell much difference in day-to-day usage, outside of Steam and Microsoft downloads. (Maybe NVidia too.)

Sigh. When I can get Gigabit for a base price of $85 or less, I'd go back. I checked, Verizon wants like $50 more for Gigabit, from this 100/100 for $40/mo deal.

 

[pcslookout]

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?)

Newsgroups can saturate 1 Gbps

 

[pcslookout]

I moved to a newly built apartment a few months ago and jumped onboard with Centurylink 1G fiber for $85/month.

I absolutely can't and won't give it up if I can help it. We can do literally anything and no one in the household experiences a lack of throughput or buffering issues anymore. Also from Steam I regularly see 85MiB/s download rates, so the massively bloated modern game sizes are meaningless. No data cap! Woo.

I got the GT-AC5300 and have 940/940 on wired easily. The VPN on the thing is alright, from work (with gigabit fiber from a different provider) to home via Open VPN I see around 150Mbit/s throughput, which is plenty for any of the stuff I use it for. Remote server management, accessing my fileserver, etc.

I decided with this kind of throughput it was time to buy a domain so I've got the DDNS on the router setup via Google Domains. Neat stuff.

This is why I love it

 

[shortylickens]

Nope.
300 mbit. And its not consistent or reliable.
But thats life.

 

[Freejack2]

I didn't expect to see affordable gigabit internet for at least a decade, but then Verizon fios came to my neighborhood offering gigabit internet. I was one of the first to get it.
According to my bill it's $195 minus a $125 discount, for a total of $70. The discount has no expiration, so I guess that rate is good forever.

 

[gorcorps]

No gigabit offerings in my area yet that I know of. Best we can get is comcast which did increase their speed recently beyond what my current modem can handle (I don't rent from them). It's fast enough already that I'm not quite tempted to upgrade equipment that still works fine, but it sucks to know I'm limiting myself with what I have on hand.

I'm actually wondering if verizon is considering expanding their fiber to the area, as they've started construction on 2 new verizon stores in areas that were already close enough to existing stores to not make a lot of sense to me as just a cell phone provider. If they're going to also start rolling out their fiber though, that could make more sense.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm actually wondering if verizon is considering expanding their fiber to the area, as they've started construction on 2 new verizon stores in areas that were already close enough to existing stores to not make a lot of sense to me as just a cell phone provider. If they're going to also start rolling out their fiber though, that could make more sense.

Given the recent push to upgrade to 5G, I wouldn't be surprised if you see Verizon and AT&T pulling fiber in quite a few new places. The biggest reason is that 5G will see far, far more implementations using microcells where we're more used to seeing large cell towers (macrocells). So, to facilitate the smaller cells that are more spread out, they'll need a wide-reaching fiber network.

 

[shortylickens]

I didn't expect to see affordable gigabit internet for at least a decade, but then Verizon fios came to my neighborhood offering gigabit internet. I was one of the first to get it.
According to my bill it's $195 minus a $125 discount, for a total of $70. The discount has no expiration, so I guess that rate is good forever.

trust me, it aint. Verizon is most assuredly NOT a charity. They repeatedly jacked up our rates over the years. We had to call and threaten to cancel many times just to get it down to a reasonable level.

 

[TXHokie]

Dang people, here I feel inadequate now with my old 100/100 fiber for $55. At least I don't hear my kid scream bloody murder while I queue up Netflix as he's playing CS:GO.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Gigabit master race checking in. Just purchased AT&T 1000 for the new casa. Probably overkill for my needs, but oh well.

 

[Jeeebus]

ughh you gigabit bastards are killing me. We're stuck with AT& U-Verse 12mbps in our office building. Notwithstanding the management company tell me that several tenants are on AT&T fiber, AT&T is possibly the worst company in the world and can't give me a straight answer whether fiber actually exists or not in the building. Worse still is AT&T has about 6 different small business websites, each with different 'available' internet options to the building. DAMN YOU GIGABIT CROWD.

 

[kn51]

Newsgroups can saturate 1 Gbps

I have 250 down with Comcast and use Astraweb. I was always curious how high it would go.

 

[Feneant2]

What I don't get is I have GB internet but yet I can't get Steam over maybe 50-75Mbits download when I connect to the router directly whereas the speedtest reports ~950 Mbits . It's moot anyways since my laptop on wifi gets maybe 25-50 and my wife's computer on a powerline sees maybe 100mbits.

 

[Viper GTS]

Sadly I am leaving this club until Optimum gets their fiber to my new house. Taking a 95% hit on upstream bandwidth and 60% down.



Viper GTS

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Given the recent push to upgrade to 5G, I wouldn't be surprised if you see Verizon and AT&T pulling fiber in quite a few new places. The biggest reason is that 5G will see far, far more implementations using microcells where we're more used to seeing large cell towers (macrocells). So, to facilitate the smaller cells that are more spread out, they'll need a wide-reaching fiber network.

This is a false assumption. Never buy into marketing by the telephone companies.

 

[kn51]

What I don't get is I have GB internet but yet I can't get Steam over maybe 50-75Mbits download when I connect to the router directly whereas the speedtest reports ~950 Mbits . It's moot anyways since my laptop on wifi gets maybe 25-50 and my wife's computer on a powerline sees maybe 100mbits.

Are you using a steamlink?

There is a setting where it throttles downloads if you are. You can turn it off.

 

[sze5003]

I have gigabit fios now. Just internet for $89. Recently I received a packet to get the same thing for the same speed but with tv included.

I didn't know if I was moving to another apartment yet so I never bothered calling. I have this rate for another year so. I came from 100/100 so the speed notice was definitely there when using steam or streaming stuff in the house.