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My ISP every few months:
"We can upgrade yo-
Does the upload speed upgrade too?
"Well, no- click
My favorite is Spectum’s “Gig” (I guess too many people can’t pronounce 1 Gbps) plan is like, significantly slower than their 600 Mbps or even their 400 Mbps like 80% of the time.
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Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it's more bilingual friendly
I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that's the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording.
I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram.
I just switched ISPs because the one I had never gave me the speed I was paying out the ass for and had constant outages. I switched and became the first house in my street with fiber. Now everyone is getting it. My bill is also $50 less than it was before. Only upsides. I think the deals are so good because my new ISP used to be terrible until the company got bought out and renamed. Now they're the best around me by far.
Well they makes me curious what the "upgrade" entails. 🤔 Have they ever told you?
I had AT&T Gigabit symmetric fiber once and it was glorious.