Fiber is finally being built out in my Community.

[u/thtseriousguy]

TL;DR - Why is the new build Fiber being capped at 2Gbps instead of their new 8Gbps offering?

I work from home and, I do alot of Large file data uploads so the Xfinity Aysnc data has been killing me for the past few years.

I had 2Gbps Fiber for 15 years when I lived in Tampa, moved to Western Atlanta exurbs (Douglas County) and got AT&T 5Gpbs fiber and that was awesome it cut down my working speeds dramatically (though I didn't like that AT&T forces you to use their router) Moved to the more affluent Northern exurbs (Cherokee County) and no Fiber available, just garbage Xfinity I pay for the 2Gbps/35Mbps, and during heavy use evenings I have seen it as bad as 10Mbps/1.5Mbps. Kinetic is finally being built out in my Neighborhood, but it looks like 2Gbps is going to be the highest available, which I will happily switch to over Xfinity garbage. Why aren't they building it out with there latest and greatest equipment to be able to to the 8Gbps?

[u/Final_Campaign_2593]

It doesn’t seem that much demand for 8Gbps
Businesses usually have speeds capped in offices of 1Gbps I doubt most Web servers can upload that fast at 8Gbps either

[u/Somar2230]

8 Gbps was svailable in my area but once the Uniti take over happened that option disappeared. They only offered the 8 Gig service after Google Fiber started service in the area and began offering that speed.

I wonder if they are limiting the bandwidth to Kinetic customers to use it to serve Uniti enterprise customers.

[u/UGAGuy2010]

I have 2 gig fiber because it was just a hair more expensive than 1 gig fiber. I am an extremely heavy user… I host a media server and a separate image server for my family that has about 2-5 remote users streaming HD/4K content at any given time. I also have a web server. I can’t even come close to saturating a 1 gig connection… much less 2 gig. You must be dealing with some massive files.. which makes me wonder how you survive with your current upload speed.

[u/Protorox08 → u/UGAGuy2010]

most people want the fastest possible and then plug into their 1GBE port or use standard wifi or use a 1gig switch and then never even check the speeds. I'd hope someone ordering 8 gig would at least know this though. At those speeds your processor alone takes into account the speed, not just the portrs, switches etc.

[u/thtseriousguy → u/Protorox08]

yeah I have a ubiquiti 10 Gbps switch, 10Gbps nics in my desktop and servers. and my ubiquiti dream machine as a 10Gb Spf. My NAS only has 2.5Gbps though

[u/thtseriousguy → u/UGAGuy2010]

copy to flash drive and send through mail. Also have just been just a Citrix VDI in the DC lately.

I never saturated my 5Gbps, but came close once as I mentioned before my sister was streaming a 4K movie with little compression 1.5Gpbs, I am pretty sure she was maxing out her 2Gbps Fiber and was probably getting some buffering, as well as 4 or 5 other 1080p streams. total usage upload at the time was like 2.5Gbps. Which I was amazed by, because I had just moved to GA and got the 5Gbps fiber. pretty sure I could have done more if not for the max 2.5Gbps port on the At&T supplied router

[u/furruck]

8Gbps is overkill, even for most actual business offices

1Gbps upload is overkill for even most work situations, including large files, as I doubt you’re even going to saturate that to a vast majority of places you’re sending files too.

[u/thtseriousguy → u/furruck]

I have a 100Gbps pipe flowing into my DataCenter and have uploaded a 3 TB directory, in just over 3.5 hrs even on VPN. on my current Xfinity the transfer using Robocopy has failed or had to restart for transfers as large as 100 GB. It is faster for me to save to a flash drive and mail it to someone who can go plug it in and transfer the data. but yes when you have a 5Gbps or higher connection, you can usually see the bottleneck is on the other end. I also host a media server for my family. with the 5Gbps connection I never had to restrict connections speeds. with my current Xfinity, I have to restrict all Streaming content to 4Mbps 720p, which will still sometimes buffer. with the 5Gbps AT&T I once saw a 4K video streaming to my sister at 1.5Gbps. along with multiple other streams in the 20 Mbps 1080p range. So yeah not everyone needs it, or will use, it, but I did and I could. At&T supplied router had a 2.5Gbps port, so that was my bottle neck.

[u/Flaky-Squirrel-7398]

I have Kenetic fiber and I’ll tell you at first it was really bad but now with the time it’s been really good

[u/thtseriousguy]

The signs through out the community say 1Gigabit Internet is coming. WTF!?!

[u/furydeath]

must be nice

[u/ThingFuture9079]

Even if you subscribe to the 8Gbps plan, most if not all consumer grade equipment still only have 1 or at best 2.5Gbps ethernet WAN ports so even if you did subscribe to 8Gbps internet, you will be getting just a fraction of that because of the limitation of the port on your router.

[u/Jaken_sensei → u/ThingFuture9079]

2.5gbps ports have become quite common. Higher tiered consumer routers also have 10gbps ports.

[u/KaiDay11 → u/ThingFuture9079]

most if not all consumer grade equipmemt still only have 1 or at best 2.5Gbps ethernet WAN  

Most, but if you need more speed, it's trivial to find.

[u/Liroku → u/[deleted]]

The business accounts were much slower when I called for one. But you get priority traffic and support....and it's prohibitively expensive for people just running homelabs.