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Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Is 1000Mbps noticeably faster than 100Mbps for the average user?
AT&T is offering 100Mbps service for $50 and 1000Mbps service for $90 (monthly). Ten times the speed for less than 200% of the 100Mbps service. But will a casual surfer and Prime Video junkie appreciate the fasterness?
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 5:40 pm
Not really.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 6:13 pm
Depends on your addiction to the Prime video and method of video streaming preferred. Generally, most users wouldn't, but a household of 6 with 13 devices, smart TV's and streaming videos and a very busy working office certainly would. I would take it in a heartbeat for myself if it were an option.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 6:57 pm
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(February 6, 2019 at 6:13 pm)tackattack Wrote: Depends on your addiction to the Prime video and method of video streaming preferred. Generally, most users wouldn't, but a household of 6 with 13 devices, smart TV's and streaming videos and a very busy working office certainly would. I would take it in a heartbeat for myself if it were an option.
We have laptops, desktops, and two fire sticks. The TVs are seldom on more than a couple of hours a day. For most of the day it's just me. Boss Lady goes off somewhere weekdays, gone for hours and hours.
They also have a "300" service for $20 more than the 100. I might straddle the fence.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 8:52 pm
(February 6, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Is 1000Mbps noticeably faster than 100Mbps for the average user?
AT&T is offering 100Mbps service for $50 and 1000Mbps service for $90 (monthly). Ten times the speed for less than 200% of the 100Mbps service. But will a casual surfer and Prime Video junkie appreciate the fasterness?
There are two things that affect internet experience-- bandwidth and ping. Both of them are largely dependent on the site you're connecting to. Unless you're doing a point-to-point transfer with another power user, the most I've seen on sites was about 12 megabytes (96 megabits) / second. If you're just surfing the web. . . I think it's very highly unlikely that the difference will matter.
Another thing is that you need a good computer. If you actually try to download at 125MB / second, then you will be lucky indeed if your computer will even be able to feed that data to your hard drive EVEN IF the site can handle it.
That being said, computer technology overall changes faster than internet speeds do. It's perfectly possible that a lot of video sites will be serving UHD over the net, and that you'll really wish you had that faster connection. Also-- just because a service is RATED at 100mbps doesn't mean you'll actually see that at the endpoint-- you might end up with downloads of like 3 Megabytes / second, which will be limiting pretty fast. I'd advise if you can afford it, go for it!
In Korea, however, I can sometimes download files at like 500mpbs, which means a full DVD file in just a few seconds. Also, I have a Microsoft Azure site, and I transfer very large files to and from it, and I can feel that extra bandwidth. It gives me a bit of a hardon, to be honest.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 9:03 pm
We have FIOS and I have been happy with it. I just got a new laptop a couple weeks ago. Here are the numbers I just got on a speed test.
Ping ms 4
Download Mbps
95.57
Upload Mbps
91.16
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 9:06 pm
I get twitchy when I read "promises" like "You are guaranteed up to XXX Mbps." One Mbps is UP TO XXX Mbps.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 9:40 pm
As BB said, unless you need to dl files at these ridiculous speeds, make you you have an M2 drive for dl storage otherwise the pc architecture becomes the bottleneck.
I wouldn't bother...
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 9:48 pm
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I have had AT&T's GigaPower fiber for the last three years and I have not once had an issue. The reliability has been aces. I have had issues with ESPN streaming, but I think that might be on ESPNs end, trying to drive people away from streaming in lieu of their cable packages.
Here is over 5Ghz wifi:
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I regularly get over 900mbps when I am connected to ethernet.
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RE: Opinions on "fiber optic" internet?
February 6, 2019 at 11:30 pm
Last time I had a provider's person canvassing the neighborhood to upsell internet speed, I just told him that as soon as everyone logged on after school was out, his promise was meaningless. I can actually tell when the kids are home, because the internet speed is noticeably slower. All those pink(ish) pics, I guess. I had another guy recently trying to tell me that they could hook the fiber from the street to my house.  I (nicely, believe it or not) explained that I'm retired, and I hadn't seen anyone pulling fiber in the neighborhood.
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