• thantik@lemmy.world
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      I’d be okay with 200mbps symmetric, with a future goal of 1gbps symmetric. More than ANYTHING, I’m tired of providers providing things like 1gbps down, 10mbps up. And then doing shit like “Here’s you’re 1gbps plan with a 1tb data cap!”

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        I really wish symmetric broadband was standard. Having 500 down (as a homelabber especially) means nothing if you have only 25 up 😭

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          Same boat here with Comcast. I would gladly give up some of the 800Mbps download to increase the 12Mbps upload speed I’m getting.

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              We don’t throttle to our company-owned Speedtest servers though so we can disprove you when claiming we are not offering you peak speeds.

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            DOCSIS 4.0 makes that a reality. Your connection will reallocate your available bandwidth between upload and download dynamically as needed.

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          Homelabber here, stuck in Comcast hell with 10Mbps upload.

          I wish I could afford to bring the local municipal fiber to my house, but to go like 2 city blocks with it would be tens of thousands of dollars. :(

          I’m considering a local colocation/ datacenter to move my homelab to. But then it wouldn’t be a homelab anymore

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              Would need to convince a local business down there to support it, but it’s not a terrible idea.

              But it is a terrible situation that this is the length people need to go to to work around Comcast / DOCSIS lopsided networking.

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            How much is Comcast charging you compared to the fiber? If I were in that position I would have decided differently (assuming I owned the property) as the difference for me peaked at $150/mo. Even more if I chose a slightly cheaper plan…and I have AT%T fiber, not municipal.

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          Spectrum? I’ve got the same plan. Sucks because I have trouble streaming my Plex server outside of my apartment. And when I work from home uploads take forever.

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          Was definitely a big factor in going from Comcast to ATT (symmetric)in my area. Although Comcast has gotten faster too.

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        You get a terabyte cap? Jfc, where I live it’s like a few gigs, and that can cost into the hundreds for maybe 25.

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          Yeah states with Comcast caps you at 1.2TB unless you pay $50 for the unlimited plan, which I don’t think is even offered everywhere. They discount it to $30 if you use their modem.

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            Mine is $30/mo for unlimited (on top of my plan cost) with my own modem.

            Luckily there’s a few FTTH companies that are almost done laying fiber in my area. I’m finally giving comcast the boot.

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              They recently changed the prices. It’s $30 extra with your own modem or free of you use theirs since they’ll also use it to supply others with free ‘hot spots’ and cellular service.

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                  Comcast has been doing this for over a decade I believe. By default their routers advertise a hotspot exclusive to other Comcast subscribers. Not sure the security behind it since it’s not technically a password just authenticate via your Comcast account. But I agree it is crazy lol I had a similar reaction when I first found out.

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                    At least it’s not your own password. Someone with a weak account password might get trouble, hopefully not you,

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                  I guess not technically cellular bands but wifi coverage to supplement the mobile phone service they offer now.

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                    Thanks for the clarification. It wouldn’t be a huge stretch to offer femtocell, which is typically available by request from carriers.

                    Comcast isn’t a carrier per se

                    But they do facilitate wifi calling

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            I had to get a fucking business plan to not deal with this BS. Still never got half the speed I’m paying for. The only other option is $100 for DSL.

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            It’s $20 for unlimited here with Comcast, or the business plan which is actually less right now for some reason for the same speeds.

            AT&T is unlimited with their gigabit plans or faster. Maybe their 300mbps plan too (heck I guess I’m not sure they have any caps at the moment come to think of it).

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              It does look like the prices changed recently. I have 2 houses currently with similar plans. My currently living in house is using the Xfinity modem and costs $25 /m but I guess that’s the modem and the unlimited so not too bad.

              My other house has my own network system and not using any Comcast hardware and that one is $30/m.

              The bad part for me was until recently they refused to give me unlimited (when it cost $50) and I wasn’t able to get it for a while. It just wouldn’t go through. I got my fair share of overage charges cause of it. I’m sure if I spent enough time bitching at support I could get something from it but I don’t have it in me to do that lol

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        My isp used to offer 10mbps up for like a decade, they have recently downgraded it to 5mbps for new subscribers. I’ve uploaded a few things with it and it’s extremely slow. If it wasn’t that I’m only paying $40 for 1gbps down, I’d have switched.

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        Worse, they do that crap for my business account. Great for the vpn to the office.

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          It’s normal for businesses to pay for peak and total bandwidth. That’s one of the reasons why they guarantee speed and availability and should be refunding you if they don’t meet those.

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        Things with caps aren’t terrestrial broadband. You can have caps on cell based networks and still be considered broadband. One of the biggest issues is it companies like Comcast and AT&t will offer broadband service in an area but not necessarily offer only broadband service or not let you buy broadband service about also having their TV. And then they claim they’re serving the area because they have broadband speeds or you can pay a bunch of money to have your service uncapped but that’s not really the point of having a broadband connection available in the area.

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          Things with caps aren’t terrestrial broadband.

          Comcast is Terrestrial Broadband and has a 1tb cap. You are simply wrong.

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            Comcast has broadband speed plans. They also charge you an extra $30 if you don’t have a TV bundle and then give you an actual broadband plan that’s unlimited. They have also been throwing the unlimited data and router and security bs in more competitive areas but that’s not a nationwide product.

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        I literally can’t do half of what I want to do online efficiently or in a timely manner because I can barely crack 10 up. I do video work on the side. Takes hours if not days for me to upload something. Even pictures nowadays. Great I’ve got a DSLR for a phone and I can shoot raw. Takes 5 mins to upload a pic.