I have a 10Gb/s fiber connection which I never fully use for many of the reasons you mentioned (mainly servers can't keep up). I have hardwired most of my computers and have a separate router for wifi. I am mostly on multiple 1 GB ethernet and nothing other than a speed test can saturate 1 GB. Still the only reason why I got this service is that it is, incredibly, the cheapest on the market! Yes, here in Switzerland, at least in major cities, we are lucky enough to have 10Gb at $50/month (I actually pay only 40 since I also have my phone plan with them) since a major French player came and aggressively attacked the very weak competition that was here.
In regards to your wifi6 speeds, you would of course be able to get double the speed you got in your speedtest if your devices support 160MHz and not just the 80Mhz your device does.
1 Gig symmetrical FTTH for $70/mo, 10 Gig symmetrical FTTH for $160/mo, In Estes Park CO. Great info for customers, now that the internet connection is no longer the bottleneck! Thanks for the video.
I just switched to Metronet (all fiber ISP) which just finished construction in my area. So far I'm liking it more than my gigabit connection from Comcast. They didn't even hesitate to cancel my service after I say that I'm switching to a fiber ISP with symmetrical speeds.
Great point about picking the tier for the speed needed. When fiber first rolled out to my neighborhood, I got symmetric gigabit (which was still significantly cheaper than Comcast's much slower plan). After analyzing a month of usage for my family I cut back to 200 Mb. Most of the time we could probably get by with 100 Mb, but you do have to buy enough bandwidth to cover your peak usage.
It would be nice if they priced the 3 tiers more accurately- I mean, if a Gig is $90, then 500mbps should be $45, and 150 should be $13.50. But they get you by making you think "well, it's only $20 more to get twice as much, might as well." My fiber ISP has $50 for 500, $70 for the Gig, the only 2 choices.
I only have 1 gig fiber from AT&T. It's a massive upgrade from the cable service I had before. Once you go symmetrical fiber, you just can't go back. Great to see they've upgraded Gigabit Pro. It's a bit rich for me though. I hope symmetrical gigabit per second speeds become the norm in the next five years. It's really great.
i'm with Bell up here in Canada, and I have 1.5 gigabit fibre, Ookla says 1.86 gigabit down and 1.1 up. 3 Gig service will be available here soon, so we'll see what kind of money they are talking about. When I went for the 1.5 Gig service, they charge $199 for the new GigaHub modem, but I managed to get the charge waived, so the upgrade only cost me the monthly charge for service. I had to buy a 10 Gbps NIC for my desktop machine, which works as advertised. I'll be wanting a new 10 GIg switch soon and I'm researching how I can connect my work machine to take advantage of the new bandwidth. Maybe CAT 6 to USB C (still researching), but it'll be fun getting it going.
1 gigabit symmetrical is still rolling out in the US and pricing is 50-100 usd a month depending on area and coverage. Still a ways to go and you're only getting 800-950 and dropping to as low as 500 during congestion and peak times (evenings)
wow your internet speeds make me jelly. I need to upgrade once I move out of my apartment. Got the last Intel based iMac Pro recently. 10 core i9, 5700 XT 16gb GDDR6, 64gb ram and last but not least...10gb Ethernet port. I need to take advantage of this asap. This will help downloading 4k 4:4:4 video files remote! I also want to bootcamp my mac with Windows10 and Live stream game as a side job. Yes you can game at high FPS on a mac with the proper work arounds haha. Got my ViewSonic 1440p 240hz monitor on standby just for that scenario. Going to pair it with my Sony A7Siii cam with a a 50mm lens for my face cam. CHEERS LON!
Thank you Lon. That was a great video. We do not have gigabit connections available where I live but that's okay because my household does just fine on 25 down and three up from my bonded DSL connection. But admittedly I do not upload very often.
Thanks for your comment John K. I've read some of your comments on streaming posts. I went from speeds of 25( which was a huge upgrade from what I was on previously) double that and my actual speedtest shows slightly faster speeds as advertised. The best part is there's been no price increase to go along with my speeds increase.
I have normal gigabit and use to get just over 1000. My speeds have dropped from anywhere to 500 to 900 as of late. Worked with Comcast and they pretty much said since we don't provide your modem there's not much we can do about it. I think it's more about my usage has been really high since COVID so you put 2 and 2 together. So basically you can get the speeds you pay for as long as you don't use it.
I get 1.4 down through xfinity not symmetrically, and only about 45 up. I was only able to get 1.4 to my pc with the xb7 modem vs Argus modem. I'm glad my motherboard has a built in 2.5 gig port otherwise the speed was capped at right under 1 gig.
3 Gigabit? Sounds like the poverty option.... ....here in Zurich i get 10 GIGABIT SYMETRICAL for 39SFR (42 USD)... including HD TV services, 10GB fibrerouter and an AppleTV (as SetTop-Box) included.
I live in a fairly rural spot, but I really wish companies here would step up their game to provide better speeds for those that work from home with Zoom and the like. The last time I had a technician come out to look at an upgrade they told me that it would not happen because of the railroad tracks around the area. Turns out that ISPs here have to pay the railroad companies to run lines under the tracks!!!! I couldn't believe it. So, the ISP's are NOT going to put in the investment, so the customer gets the shaft.
Here in Oregon, Spectrum offers 1G Internet for $110 USD/month: quoting now: Internet Gig Speeds up to 1 Gbps For the ultimate experience choose Internet Gig - our fastest speed available
@@supremelawfirm They offer a 1 gig download here too. That's not what I'm after. I want FIBER (symmetrical speed) just like Lon has. Spectrums 1 gig service is still limited to 35mbps upload. Terrible
It looks like I shouldn't even bother trying to move somewhere that has fiber. They all make you rent their equipment. They can't just let you buy or rent a little SFP(+) module and let you use your own stuff. You HAVE to pay THEM to force you to use THEIR boxes, taking up rack space and upping your electric bill. Also adding another hop and increasing latency. At least with my business Comcast service, when they walked in my place with their equipment, I told them "if that's literally required and there's absolutely no way I can use my own modem, just turn around and get back in your van and tell them to cancel my contract." They made a call home and I still have my own modem to this day.
I have AT&T 1 gig fiber optic. My wired download speeds run close to 1 gig, upstream lags. My AT&T modem/router does a terrible job spreading the wireless signal throughout the house. I want to use MOCA to leverage the pre-existing coaxial cable that was installed 25 years ago in my two-story house with an attic. I have not yet pulled the trigger on the MOCA adapters. Multiple splitters are employed in the attic and I suspect there are other locations where splitters are used. Since the cabling was originally done over 25 years ago. Will I have to track down and replace every splitter in the house to insure an optimal and reliable MOCA network?
I upgraded my router to a Tri-Band wifi 6 ASUS router. I am paying for 200Mpps from Spectrum and I am getting around 240Mpbs down and 12up everywhere in my house wired or wireless. You won't get anywhere close to these speeds on older wifi 5 routers. GB isn't an option here. The most Spectrum offers here is 400 Mbps down and 20 up.
I know what you mean about upgrading your router. I'm currently paying for 80 by 20 from Comcast using their modem router and I had it attached to an old 100 megabit router. I just upgraded to a udm and found out that I'm actually getting 500 by 30.
I get that speed on my Verizon 5G Ultrawide Home Network and i only pay $25...also get that speed on my iPhone since there's a bunch of Verizon 5G utrawide tower where I live and work. I live in Los Angeles, CA
Come to NZ we got up to 8gigabit internet for residential. I don't know how anyone would take advantage of that unless they running a cloud storage service from their house 😂.
the modem uses fiber, from the modem you can use fiber to the routers or switches on short distances you can use cat 5e for 1 to 2 gigabits, but is better if you install cat 6 or higher to the pcs, pcs that support over 1 gigabit speeds, because if your machines only go up to 1 gigabit, 5e is just fine
You can get Gig on wifi it's just pain with todays tech somewhat impractical but you can hit 1.2Gbps... ( I think that's the max of wifi 6 ) For example if I'm in the same room as the router on wifi-6 on the 160mhz band and I point my wireless device the correct way I can hit 1.2Gbps on my tablet... It's a lot of trouble has no practical use to me but seeing over 1Gbps in speed test on wifi is really nice...
Holy shit, that's the same bandwidth my entire school had. Linus managed to get over 800mb over wifi but that was with a 50 grand setup with commercial grade acess points and I think 10gig Ethernet. I'm still green with envy, where I am 100mb for close to 70usd a month is about as good as you can go.
Att ran fiber in my neighborhood but has not turned it on yet i work for them as a installer and it is killing me i got the fiber ran into my house with light on it i just cant use it till they turn it green in the system its driving me crazy!!! i only got 25 megs down and 5 up on dsl right now
If I had this type of service and lived in close quarters to other people, I would just use that extra gigabit network, divide it into something like 100 mbit, and sell it to 10 people for like $30 a month.
@@LonSeidman I'm in South Jersey, We have speeds like that but only for business. Our Resi speeds are gig down and 100 up I believe it is now, It was only 50 up but that seemed to be good enough for basic user's and RU-vidr's... But that's a really nice upload speed..
@@marcasswellbmd6922 Isn't Gigabit Pro a nationwide product? I know of a number of people in other states (including the New Jersey region) that have it.
@@LonSeidman I'm sure if a homeowner wants to do what you did I'm sure the can do that yeah but most people just go with basic residential blast to gig package..
i pay around 30 dollars month, around 120 down and 12 up more or less the advantage of complain and change isp when the time is right and there are options to choose from
