Aside: Comcast, wtf? 1.2 TB limit per month? Seriously if anyone works at Comcast know that I hate your company with an overwhelming passion.
edit: hitting 48-50 mbps again today, sweet
I reliably get 900mb down and 900mb up with Verizon in DC.
(I'd expect that only in the past year or so has upstream been a lot more heavily utilized, what with massively increased work-from-home due to the pandemic. Before then, the primary stressors of the network were things like streaming 4k60 video.
And I'll be very surprised if any ISPs thought torrent uploads to be a use case worth optimizing for.)
Wife wanted to live out here. So we traded my being able to work easily for amazing views and lots of land. Not entirely unhappy with the trade, but there are days when I think about just renting an office in town. (30 minutes away).
Unfortunately, the cable company usually offers some ludicrous 500mbps (burst) download / 5mbps upload connection that people are willing to accept for cheaper, so if the phone company comes in and pays to install fiber and charge accordingly for the new fiber runs, insufficient people would switch to the fiber to make the numbers work since they are okay with the shitty cable company connection.
https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how...
>The Important Part Because so many people had this question, and I finally talked to someone at Comcast who knew what Gigabit Pro actually is, here is how to get in touch with them:
It’s actually 3g up and down. It’s 10 gig Metro-E into a Juniper switch, with a 1g port and 10g port throttled to 2g.
I wish they had it in more places.
Their model is expensive because they don’t wire while neighborhoods. For me they had to run fiber a quarter mile, down my street, and trench under my driveway. I imagine all these one-offs make the per house investment quite high.
In another instance, I needed symmetric fiber at one of my businesses. I contacted Comcast, the business/commercial departments multiple times, got numerous peoples' names, left voice and email messages left and right and got nowhere after weeks. I ended up contacting a different ISP, signed up with them, and then on the install date, Comcast showed up to install the fiber modem (who were, of course, reselling it to the ISP I contracted with). I ended up paying the other ISP $1,700 per month.
The only real complaint I have is that Verizon still seems to be unable to deploy IPv6. They have promised it for years and never seem to get past the testing phase.
I still wish I had other options in my area (nh)