I got a flyer in the snail mail the other day that said "surf fiber internet will soon be available to you". My Mom has fiber internet in another state, and I know it's fast for her (albeit she has verizon fios). I live in the USA Midwest Chicago area- and I have had comcast xfinity for 20+ years here. They are a ripoff. I am charged 88.95 a month USD. I have no TV or any other services other than basic internet (I think it's the second lowest speed- they may call it "performance internet")
What I did notice (and this may be a coincidence) was that they must be doing some construction on my street because they made survey marks on my property and painted where the gas line and water lines are. Could this be because they are putting in the fiber cables?
Thinking of switching but want to get opinions of others. Besides cost reasons, comcast can suck off because they are basically part of other hollywood support corporations that are part of ACE. (this is the other reason I want to do it)
You probably don't need 2GB. Maybe even not 1GB. I have 1GB Internet and love the speeds, but unless I'm downloading a game from steam, I never really max it out.
That said, for someone who grew up before the Internet and experienced 28K modems (and slower), it's hella rude to sometimes just run ookla speed test for kicks.
What is actually being offered here? It says '2 gig' in several places, I assume that means 2 Gb/s? No way that's actually 2 GB/s, right?
I hate imprecise language in advertisements, smh
Ah, by the way, no imprecise language. Lowercase b = bit. Uppercase B = Byte. Gigabit and Gigabyte.
To get Gigabyte bandwidth, divide the Gigabits by 8 (8 bits in 1 byte)
So, 250MB per 1sec, or 2GB in 8sec.
Quite likely it is 2Gb/sec (250MB/sec)
I am on a "1 Gig plan" (fiber,but with another provider) and I am able to upload AND download at nearly 1Gb (more close to 970M).
Main advantage over garbage like Comcast is the upload speed, which most US companies slash, trying to turn Internet into "consumption focused" medium, rather than exchange medium.
Network speeds are pretty much always advertised in bit/s not bytes so yes.
I'm closing in on 50, so I remember my 14.4 modems! I had aol! I don't use steam even when shower, if I do it would be too hot! Honestly I only play 2 games, they are both for MS-DOS and I'm an avid linux user. Rather than play new fancy games I reverse engineer and modify old ones. My executables are like 1mb each. I am learning x86 dissasembly.
Well spill the beans ya old goat, which two games?!
more power to you m8 that is not so easy. I took intro computer architecture with one of the guys who wrote the manual for the first x86 processors at Intel and I still had a hard time