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Re:Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states by hi-v-rocknroll on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:08PM (#41358637)
Google Fiber offers 8 Gbps in Austin for half the price. They're also piloting 20 Gbps in some areas.[0] I wished it were available where I live because the only maximum options currently available are 1 Gbps through either GVEC (fiber) or Spectrum (cable). Spectrum is slow and has outages occasionally. GVEC lacks useful information on their website and hides pricing.

0. https://fiber.google.com/gfiber-labs/20gig

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Re:Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states by mysteria on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:19PM (#41358746)
Anything beyond 10 Gbps is basically the datacenter world and the switches, NICs, etc. are going to be real expensive. I wonder if their terms allow hosting on that 20Gbps plan as that's probably the only real use for it.
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Re:Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states by trashcan on Monday August 26, 2024 @01:42PM (#41359666)
They also refuse to do installs in new builds in many neighborhoods. I have lived sandwiched between two addresses that have Google Fiber, and they have refused to come out to install the last 25 feet of cable to my house for 5 years. So I'm paying $100/mo for crappy Spectrum internet that goes down all the time.

I've reached out to them several times to come out or do a survey, or run the existing fiber through already existing conduit and they just refuse.

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