My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by pirate787 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:27AM (#31135059)

I live in a metro area in the US and thousands of homes in my community do not have land-based broadband options. The US incumbents have totally failed and it isn't because there's a lot of desert in the West and Alaska. I'm sick of this argument which doesn't explain why city dwellers in most places in America have the worst internet in the developed world.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by m0ngr31 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:09PM (#31135528)

I live in the middle of nowhere USA. I'm about 1,000 feet off the road (that only random farms are on, about 20 miles from the small city we're near).

My local ISP trenched fiber to my house for free and provides gig internet for $80/month.

The funny thing is my previous house was in town and I had to settle for 100Mbit for the same price. ISPs are all sorts of messed up.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by bombcar on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:16PM (#31137458)

It’s all about what it costs to upgrade - if a rural ISP has to upgrade copper infrastructure for whatever reason they’ll fiber it.

In the city it’s often just as easy to let what is working continue “working” - a major rollout takes a lot of money.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by patmorgan23 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:47PM (#31138932)

Yep engineering the new network, pulling permits, hiring the contractor, buying new equipment/lines all cost $$$$$$

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by kelnos on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:20PM (#31135636)

Yup, I live in San Francisco proper, and my only choice is Comcast cable. Looks like the current promo pricing for 1200Mbps is around $70/mo, but I can't quickly find what the normal price is. And I assume the uplink is something abysmal like 25Mbps.

(I'm on Comcast's Business service, $250/mo for 1000/35 [long dumb story why]. Most of the time I see under 600 down when checking on speed test sites, and real-world speeds downloading large files rarely exceeds 250. I expect real-world speeds on the non-business service are even worse.)

It's pretty embarrassing that this is the state of things.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by rpearl on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:35PM (#31135785)

Most of San Francisco can be served by Wave (cable). Sonic also has a large presence in San Francisco as well.

Over in Oakland I am paying $40/mo to Sonic for 10Gbps (though I only have equipment to route at 1Gbps at the moment)

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by jasondclinton on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:06PM (#31136664)

I'm also in SF Bay Area and I just had 3 Gbps symmetric fiber installed by Comcast. This is their $299/mo "Gigabit Pro" option. I posted about it on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/tkmv9y/upd...

There's a benchmark posted there showing that the speed is really as advertised.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by dahfizz on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:30AM (#31135091)

I live in a not-very-metro area in the usa and get gigabit fiber for $65/mo.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by themitigating on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:35AM (#31135149)

I'm in Jersey City and have fios, 1gbit for $70 a month

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