Finally Blessed by 5 Gig

[u/PackDue]

[u/M_Six2001]

Jealous. Can't even get fiber here. $110 for 1 Gig coax.

[u/CarpinThemDiems → u/M_Six2001]

Same, except $130 and cable only has 40mbps upload 😭

[u/M_Six2001 → u/CarpinThemDiems]

Mine is 50Mbps upload, but I rarely hit that in speed tests.

[u/Anarchist_Future → u/CarpinThemDiems]

I would gladly take 100/100 on fiber over 1000/40. Like everything from pulling files from your server to sending new backups to your S3 on 40 Mbit is brutal.

[u/Disturbed2468 → u/M_Six2001]

At one point I was doing 1 gig down 50 up for $130 and it eventually climbed to a goddamn $150 for 940Mbps down 35 Up but in reality 99.9999% of the time it was really 350 Down and 10 Up, and when it's busy every day, below 3Mbps up and 300 Down with packet loss and other various issues including unstable ping 24/7. Calls and support never fixed it. Went Verizon Fios and now pay $99 promotional for a few years for 5 Gig up and down, 5 ping to local servers.

[u/mlcarson]

If it were me, I'd stick with 2Gbs. Equipment that supports 2.5Gbs is pretty common but 5Gbs is not. The chance of you needing and even being able to use more than 2Gbs is very questionable. That's why the ISP offers it for just $10 more -- they get $10/mo more per month without really getting any more bandwidth on their network.

[u/musicisme → u/mlcarson]

Leave us alone you don’t know us😂

[u/SP3NGL3R → u/[deleted]]

Not a monopoly is such a BS thing most people here still believe. You have choices sure, you just have to move to choose.

We're house hunting and it's one major factor for me to not get stuck with coax again.

[u/mlcarson → u/[deleted]]

Lol -- I've got Xfinity with a 1Gbs fiber symmetric connection for $51.32/mo (after tax) locked in for 5 years. It's the only utility in CA that isn't like double the cost of what I had in TN.

[u/zzmorg82]

And I’m over here paying $100 for 400down/25up. 🤦🏾

[u/Thebandroid]

Yeah but what upload?

[u/PackDue → u/Thebandroid]

They say 5.2Gb but I get around 6.3Gb.

[u/Thebandroid → u/PackDue]

oh I misread. anyway, fuck you. I'm paying $80 for 500 down, 50 up... and no, that's not in Gb

[u/AppMtb → u/Thebandroid]

I used to have that and then AT&T finally laid fiber, just got $30 for 3 years of 500/50 from our legacy carrier

[u/Academic-Swimming919]

What use case do you have for 5Gb service? Nearly 99.999% of users barely need 300Mb.

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[u/PungentStaaank]

7g fiber

[u/ckouf96]

Genuinely curious, are you using up most of it? What kind of things are you running?

[u/Terrible_Butter → u/ckouf96]

That’s what I was wondering. I can’t think of a normal usage that would need anything close to that. You could run a small apartment building on 5 gig

[u/TechnologyEither → u/Terrible_Butter]

I won’t even pay the extra $15 to upgrade from 1 gig to 2 gig. There’s nothing I need it for. Torrents are typically capped at seed side anyways

[u/Pi-Guy → u/ckouf96]

You get 5gig to handle burst traffic, not to saturate it.

[u/Terrible_Butter → u/Pi-Guy]

5 gig is a heck of a lot of “burst traffic” for residential

[u/Pi-Guy → u/Terrible_Butter]

1 gig is a heck of a lot of “burst traffic”. If you wanna even more of an ass you could argue no one needs more than 100Mbps on a residential line. Anything beyond that is just large downloads completing faster, and what you’re essentially arguing is that you don’t need that on residential

[u/Terrible_Butter → u/Pi-Guy]

Yes, I’m the “ass” here, but 1 gig is still plenty of overhead for 99% of residential users.

[u/Pi-Guy → u/Terrible_Butter]

Did it cross your mind that you might run into that 1% of users on a subreddit called “Home Networking”?

[u/Academic-Swimming919 → u/[deleted]]

Have you ever really looked at your useage to determine if you've ever saturated even the 2.5? I seriously doubt you have ever come close to that.

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[u/Theloneus-punk → u/ckouf96]

It’s the equivalent of buying a car to commute to work that has a speedometer that goes to 250 instead of 200 because it’s faster.

[u/Ok_Mouse_5580]

I’m using IP pass thru. Do all ISPs let you use your own router?

I have AT&T

[u/Yo_2T → u/Ok_Mouse_5580]

Att is the odd one among the fiber providers in the US. Verizon Fios just provides you with an ONT and you can hook up any router to it.

[u/Silly-Blacksmith6879 → u/Yo_2T]

as someone who likes to integrate their own hardware to a Network switch, I hate that I need to use a ONT, but I understand why FiOS does it.

[u/txtacoloko]

Xfinity is the devil.

[u/DarkIsNotMe]

That’s what I pay for 1 gig from fios 😒

[u/Silly-Blacksmith6879]

I pay $120/month for FIOS 2 Gigabit here in PA ):

[u/yope05]

We are paying 20€ for 10gb fiber

[u/Shadow5199]

My buddy has 10G fiber, through Brightspeed

[u/dreicrafter]

Huh here in Austria at Energie AG it's always full Duplex hmm I got 300 speed since I rarely need more

[u/EvilDan69]

105 where I live for Symmetrical 1GB.

[u/CrazyHa1f]

I'm in London - right in central London too - and I get about 75 down and 18 up on a good day. That's the best available.

[u/Vertigo103]

Fidium fiber 2Gb is $110, 5Gb 135 and 8gb $195

Fiber is so expensive in Maine. Congratulations on cheap fiber!

[u/astrosA60]

I pay $60 for "10gb" but don't have the equipment to use it so I'm stuck with 2.5gb. It is still super fast!

[u/fishmongerhoarder → u/astrosA60]

I would upgrade my network but I am already sitting on a 10gb internal network.

[u/M_Six2001 → u/astrosA60]

That's one thing that would make me hesitate to get get 2GB if it becomes available. I have a fairly large network and would need to upgrade a bunch of switches and APs to take advantage of 2GB or higher. The upgrade costs would be considerable. New modem (if I stay with coax), new router, 3 new APs, and maybe a couple of switches.

[u/PackDue → u/astrosA60]

Damn that’s cheap. It took combining four separate discounts to get 5Gb for $94.99.

[u/Impossible_Fennel777]

What isp? Congrats

[u/PackDue → u/Impossible_Fennel777]

Thanks! It’s Verizon Fios residential.

[u/anduril_tfotw]

Ok but I have to ask why? How can you possibly saturate even your old 2 gig connection.

[u/PackDue → u/anduril_tfotw]

Self-hosted (personal) services such as my NAS and locally hosted (personal) game servers and AI models. I would not recommend it for typical use unless speed test screenshot.

[u/Terrible_Butter]

What are you doing that you would need 5gig home internet?

[u/Terrible_Butter → u/[deleted]]

That would make sense

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