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Why rollout the red carpet for Google? AT&T is more than willing and able to expand its fiber gigabit internet.

I hate to admit it, but we haven’t had any issues with AT&T gigabit ethernet service. It’s $70 a month with no additional fees, rock solid and unlike Comcast, we actually get great (900Mbps) upload speeds.



You're paying a lot of money for a gigabit connection and you don't get full speed. You are apparently happy about that, I'm afraid I don't follow.


With headers, 940 mbps is about the maximum for gigabit Ethernet: https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-howto/33095-ho....

And of course, Google Fiber like AT&T is an oversubscribed consumer level connection. Each use shares a 2.4 gigabit up/1.2 gigabit down GPON with some number (typically 16) other users.


You mean 940Mbps up and down isn’t “full speed”?

So did you sneak into almost any room in my gigabit wired house and do a speed test?

I have a wired computer in my office and two 4K AppleTVs and they all report 900Mbps+ up and down.

My son’s wired PS4 reports around 600Mbps.

I also bet that AT&T won’t abandon my neighborhood and become uninterested like Google does for basically everything in three years.


Do they keep that speed 24/7?


I am not running speed test 24/7. I can definitely say my internet speed has never been the bottleneck. The few times that I have noticed getting a consistent drop to only 600Mbps, I just rebooted my router.

Are you saying that they’re are ISPs that never oversubscribe their lines anywhere along the route?




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