1 GB broadband

[NQAS]

When I moved into my house almost 20 years ago, only option for "high speed" was satellite. Suffice to say, high speed was a misnomer.

Then got an RF service. Worked okay-ish until they shut down.

Then got DSL, a "blazing" 768 KB when it worked. It rarely worked.

Then I got a dedicated T1 line at $150/month for a whopping 3MB.

Throughout all this, three different phone companies promised that they would deliver fiber. Eventually.

Well, to my utter shock, eventually turned out to be yesterday. Got 1GB fiber. Well, 1GB is also something of a misnomer. Speed varied yesterday from 375MB to 700MB.

And all this at $75/month for a year. Half the price of what I had, 300 times the speed (well, sometimes). It goes up in a year but will still be less than what I have been paying for 5 years.

[PoliticAverse]

1. What provider? n/t

[awesomerwb1]

2. $75/month for 1GB is very good!

I had 150GB starting at $52ish/month which turned into $80/month after first year discount.

[Bobstandard]

5. It's good except for in any other OECD country

The US, Canada and Mexico have abysmal service. Eurodollar countries, Korea, Japan and much of China deliver faster, more reliable speeds for much less. Those folks come here and are appalled.

I’m still waiting for that elusive fiber or fixed WiFi or starlink satellite. Good for you!

[CentralMass]

3. Do you need it ?

[NQAS]

6. Actually. . .

Yes. We work out of the house and also have an office (mainly to keep me out of the house). And we send/receive a lot of video with customers, and we are beginning to work on developing an app, and the speed helps (and will help). Also, with the 3MB line, when multiple devices were connected to the wifi, reliability dropped. Could we live without it? Well, given that the price is half of what it was, that would be stupid. But if we had to continue using the expensive service, we would have.

[CentralMass]

7. Got it. I have the default speed with a fiber optic connection.

It think it is 30mbps. I've been working remotely since this started and it seems to have performed nicely fior me. I live alone so the bandwidth load is light. I do stream via a Roku TV and use a few mobile device. It is anecdotal but I think thst the fiber connection provides a clean signal even at 30mbps.

[Shermann]

4. Need some tighter definitions here

GB is not the same as Gb, B = bytes and b = bits. Also, throughput is in Gbps which is probably what you mean.

That applies to Kbps and Mbps too.

[abqtommy]

8. Now, everyone who wants to go back to a dial-up modem raise your hands! Anybody?

No... that's what I thought! We're running on the lowest speed offered by our
provider and it's just fine with me.

[Zorro]

9. Tell me about it

30 years ago I was transferring files at 1200 baud from Japan to the US. Those were expensive phone bills.