Their website says the speeds up and down are symmetrical. No data caps.
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What is your Internet provider and speed?
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My ISP provider is XMission. XMission uses the Utopia fiber optic network.
These speeds have been more than sufficient for my wife and I. We stream all of our TV. I often watch YouTube, while my wife is streaming TV at the same time. No problems.
These speeds have been more than sufficient for my wife and I. We stream all of our TV. I often watch YouTube, while my wife is streaming TV at the same time. No problems.
Bluepeak fiber 1G/1G for $55/mo. The test was done over WiFi. Overkill for my needs but this is the lowest speed I can get...I'm surprised some of you with fiber are sub 500/500...seems low for fiber but I guess my assumption was wrong that all fiber packages killed the lower cable provider speeds.
Gaming can use a lot of bandwidth. Between downloading huge amounts of data for installation and updates and online multiplayer gaming constantly using bandwidth, gaming can use more bandwidth than 4K TV.
My firewall has a live bandwidth graph so I can see how much data rate I'm using when streaming various channels. I pretty much agree with the numbers in this article:
https://tachus.com/streaming-tv-data-usage/
For the most part, uploading is used much less (10x to 20x) than downloading. So in most situations, having symmetric up/downloads is more hype than anything. I manage the network for a small business on a symmetric plan and even with a lot of VPN activity (which is heavy on uploading in their environment), their upload usage is only 15% of their total bandwidth usage. For my home usage, which consists of streaming, gaming, work and general browsing, only 5% of the total used bandwidth is going towards uploading.
This is why most ISPs offered plans with 10x more download speed than upload. With the advent if fiber, symmetric became a new selling point because it seems like you're getting way more than your cable or DSL provider offered. But it mostly sits idle because heavy uploading is such an uncommon occurrence.
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Bell fibre, got a wicked deal to switch away from cable. I'm on 1.5Gbit/900Mbit (It appears to be actually more like 1.5Gbit/1Gbit).
I wish i had access to a plan like that. Instead i have to pay out the nose just to get a measly 40mbps upload on cable internet.
How much would something like VoIP or all these little IoT devices use up anyways? I would imagine all these little smart sensor devices would barely use up any bandwidth. Kind of like how dozens of wall warts in a home isn't going to be close to using as much power as a toaster oven.
Still - a lot of ISPs are advertising their services as a way for several people in the same home to play games or stream simultaneously. AT&T might have the most annoying ads in that regard.
Found that a connection to speedtest.net is built in to a new gateway that I bought. So I suppose something that could connect at 2.5 or 10 gbit/sec could accurately measure that speed.
When my parents got U-Verse I recall they just connected it to the existing phone line and there was an all-in one box connected indoors, including Wi-Fi, maybe a couple of ethernet ports, and VoIP. Their POTS line had already been cancelled/disconnected (previous ADSL disconnected as a result) when they ordered VoIP so there was no contention. I don't even think they needed a filter any more. The previous service provider sent maybe 4 2WIRE filters. Most were little cables and a dongle, but one was for a wall-mounted phone. And it's bizarre that AT&T is still selling them. Who still has a wall phone? Or DSL?
https://www.att.com/buy/accessories/Internet-Equipment/2wire-wall-mount-dsl-filter.html
Agree, barely any bandwith
Yep. Even with all our camera's all the streaming devices, phones, etc we never have problems at 100mb. If you listen to AT&T and comcast we'd need multiple fiber links to use them. But, most people are stupid and believe what they're told......advertising.
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xfinity gigabit plan. their modem in bridge mode connected via 2.5GBE link to Ubiquiti UDM SE.
bonus shot of Iphone 15 Pro Max connected to a U7 Pro (only have a gigabit link from switch to AP)
ATT Fiber is being pulled into the area and i will jump ship from xfinity as fast as i can. i cannot stand slow uploads and ping spikes that come along with COAX based internet.
bonus shot of Iphone 15 Pro Max connected to a U7 Pro (only have a gigabit link from switch to AP)
ATT Fiber is being pulled into the area and i will jump ship from xfinity as fast as i can. i cannot stand slow uploads and ping spikes that come along with COAX based internet.
BrendanC
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Starlink Gen 3 bridged and connected to a Ubiquiti UCG Ultra.
this is in service at the lakehouse after hughes net took 2 weeks to get service back up for our neighborhood following berryl. i use a U7 Outdoor to radiate the cul-de-sac and have u6 meshes in our neighbors houses that choose to split the cost of star link with me. 90x faster than hughesnet and i’m saving everyone a ton of money.
this is in service at the lakehouse after hughes net took 2 weeks to get service back up for our neighborhood following berryl. i use a U7 Outdoor to radiate the cul-de-sac and have u6 meshes in our neighbors houses that choose to split the cost of star link with me. 90x faster than hughesnet and i’m saving everyone a ton of money.
BrendanC
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ATT gigabit fiber bridged to a Ubiquiti UCG Ultra at my parents house. their old modem/router doesn’t have a 2.5GBE port on it so it is limited to GBE speeds and the overhead that comes with it. have to love virtually zero ping and symmetrical speeds.
I will be rolling out a UCG Max at my grandparents house with some U7 pros that also have ATT gigabit fiber. hopefully their modem/router has a 2.5GBE link.
I will be rolling out a UCG Max at my grandparents house with some U7 pros that also have ATT gigabit fiber. hopefully their modem/router has a 2.5GBE link.
That's crazy I have Spectrum, getting 400mps but paying over $70
Brightspeed fiber 1gig up and down, $49 a month.
That's a great price. Our cable provider, Cox, charges $120 a month for cable 1gig download with 100Mbps upload speeds and a 1.25TB per month data limit. The new guy in town, IdeaTek, will be charging $90/mo for 1gig up/down fiber with unlimited bandwidth. I'm on their waiting list to sign up as soon as they go live.
Around here Sonic Internet charges a flat price $50 regardless of whether it's theoretical 1 or 10 gbit/sec symmetric. No rental cost for base equipment. No installation fees. No contracts. They don't have ESPN3 which would be nice but obviously that's a cost to the ISP. The only discounts might be one or two months free - often if responding to an installer knocking on doors.
This is from the company itself, so take it with a grain of salt, but whoa! There are others with similar results, but there's one where I can't link a photo.
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Nice! Bell used to offer 8Gbit symmetrical but pulled the package.
