@cliffwade No brainer. We just switched to fiber. Have had Spectrum for 8 years and pay $120/mo for 500mb. Paying $80 for 1gb with new fiber. Upload speed is such an huge difference
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Dang 5Gb. I would love that, except I'd have to upgrade everything to get the benefits of that. 10gb switches and would need wifi7 wifi to get anywhere close to that.
@cliffwade I have had Google Fiber 1Gb for $70, and then during Covid got a Spectrum 400Mb plan for $30 as a backup. I decided to try the Spectrum as a primary for a while to see if it would be acceptable. Nope.
@cliffwade Yeah Spectrum was mostly fine when it was the backup, and it wasn’t like Google Fiber was unreliable but when we were all home for work and school 24/7, I didn’t want any problems and my router could do the failover. Then after I switched Spectrum had like two different outages in a week and that was it.
@cliffwade wow, I never realized how expensive broadband was in usa. I'm paying 20€ for 100gb, although that doesn't include any kind of extra services like TV or phone plans.
@cliffwade realistically we rarely get to use them fully at lest with a single stream but I think at this point my limitation is more than few servers can saturate the bandwidth.
@cliffwade Oh yeah, sorry, I misread my contract. My land network is "only" 1Gbps (for 20€ /month). the 100gb is the data plan for my cellphone (after 100Gb at 5G speeds you get downgraded to modem-era).
Ran the test (not clean because I'm running things in the background like an RDP connection to my office computer).
5Gb sounds amazing, but my point still stands... 160$ a month sounds expensive!
It's crazy that $160 sounds expensive to y'all there, but here, $160 for 5Gb speeds is unheard of. In fact, AT&T is the only ones who offer it right now as far as I know.
@cliffwade Look it the other way... 160$ is around 10% of my salary, which is above the average here. What would you think if you paid 10% of your salary for internet? :D
@cliffwade BTW: looked around and doesn't seem to be public offer for speeds above 1Gbps right now in my country. I guess if I go to enterprise level internet there should be offers, but then is the kind of places where they don't tell you the price (if you have to ask...)
So yeah, 5Gbps sounds like you're setting up your own DPC at home! :blobcatcoffee:
@Nekoplanet LOL Yeah it's the same here with regards to business plans. Call to ask the price. Nope, I'm good, because I already know if I have to do that, then it's too expensive for me. 🤪
@cliffwade I do wonder, though... will you have to upgrade your infrastructure for 5Gbps? IDK you, but I'm still running gigabit ethernet. And I doubt 5Gbps runs well on wireless, even with these fancy mesh systems! :)
@Nekoplanet I don't believe so. I think my router can handle it and they will of course supply the modem. I think my ethernet cards in the PC's do up to 10Gb or maybe even 100Gb.
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