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)
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
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.
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.
Yeah, GB and Gb are clearly defined. But the flyer says “gig”