I’d argue that the main driver for all of this is the increased rollout of fiber. Companies like AT&T started broadly rolling out gigabit plans for what people were paying for sub 50 megabit cable plans. And the lines handled neighborhood network congestion better.
Comcast has to figure out how to be competitive, or they are going to get their asses handed to them.
AT&T and Comcast are both terrible companies with horrible customer service, but fiber is always going to be better than copper.
I was hoping Starlink would also push traditional providers to be better, but it hasn’t gotten its shit together well enough yet to be a real threat. Should have known better than to think Musk would be helpful.
Nah, they’ve been doing that for years. In the two years since I first got my service at my house I went from 200gig to 800gig with no price increase. It’s p SOP these days when network upgrades take place in your area.
If not, they definitely meant 200mb upgraded to 800mb per second lol, if Comcast had 800gb/s internet they would be competing with employee access to direct private fiber peering between the CIA and NSA lol
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I’d argue that the main driver for all of this is the increased rollout of fiber. Companies like AT&T started broadly rolling out gigabit plans for what people were paying for sub 50 megabit cable plans. And the lines handled neighborhood network congestion better.
Comcast has to figure out how to be competitive, or they are going to get their asses handed to them.
AT&T and Comcast are both terrible companies with horrible customer service, but fiber is always going to be better than copper.
I was hoping Starlink would also push traditional providers to be better, but it hasn’t gotten its shit together well enough yet to be a real threat. Should have known better than to think Musk would be helpful.
Except fragility
If only wire shielding and stress relief was a thing that existed…
My internet has been much more reliable since I moved to fiber.
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Nah, they’ve been doing that for years. In the two years since I first got my service at my house I went from 200gig to 800gig with no price increase. It’s p SOP these days when network upgrades take place in your area.
800gig? Can I come live with you?
500kbs upload and 1gb cap -comcast
Wait a second? Do they mean 800gig cap? That isn’t going to work. How can you only use 1gb a month? I use than per hour. Allegedly.
If not, they definitely meant 200mb upgraded to 800mb per second lol, if Comcast had 800gb/s internet they would be competing with employee access to direct private fiber peering between the CIA and NSA lol
If you use a gig per hour you’re good at 800gb.
I don’t like playing that close to overages.