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Just had AT&T Fiber installed - 1Gbps but...

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Homerboy said:
Yeap. I make this comment quite often. When we were on dialup, websites had to be simpler and more "to the point" so they loaded in a tolerable amount of time (no comment on how long it took those.... *ahem* jpgs I was always downloading though) But now that we all have decent speed, designers throw every stupid little thing to slow the process down. A lot of that is "weight" is thrown on the local user's PC too - having to fire up java, flash, embedded this and that - if you dont have a SSD, you're screwed.
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What makes it worse is most of it is advertising. I'm sure you're already running ad block for your browser, but consider something like pihole to block all the mobile devices, etc.
 
UNCjigga said:
IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.

edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
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I agree, I've had gig fiber for a while now and I've yet to download or upload anything that can take advantage of the speed. The next lower tier is 100mb/s but it's only $20 cheaper so there's no point.
/sigh first world problems.
 
lsd said:
I agree, I've had gig fiber for a while now and I've yet to download or upload anything that can take advantage of the speed. The next lower tier is 100mb/s but it's only $20 cheaper so there's no point.
/sigh first world problems.
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Funny how AT&T shifts the tiers around based on the local market competition. They could easily offer 500 or 750 here, but Spectrum's popular offering is 300mbps so that's what they limit the low tier to in my market. Sounds like your market is even more limited.
 
Midwayman said:
What makes it worse is most of it is advertising. I'm sure you're already running ad block for your browser, but consider something like pihole to block all the mobile devices, etc.
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I might do a PiHole installation. I have an unRaid server running and I think there is something similar for that.
 
sdifox said:
Can you host my server?
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I wish ISPs would allow hosting servers. Most don't. I don't even see the point of gig connections if you're not allowed to host stuff. A lot of those also don't offer static IP blocks or ability to own an IP block like say, a /24. So even if you were allowed to host stuff you're still stuck using some kind of dynudns or no-ip type service.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I wish ISPs would allow hosting servers. Most don't. I don't even see the point of gig connections if you're not allowed to host stuff. A lot of those also don't offer static IP blocks or ability to own an IP block like say, a /24. So even if you were allowed to host stuff you're still stuck using some kind of dynudns or no-ip type service.
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Define "hosting a server" though.
I have a dedicated server at home and it runs outward (and inward) facing sites and applications.
There seems to be no ports blocked at all.
 
Nice. OP, what's your monthly bandwidth cap? Comcast/Xfinity only gives me 1024GB/month at 180 down/12 up.
Pointless for me to go any faster if I end up using that cap and go over. I don't want to pay $50 more to go unlimited.
 
Homerboy said:
Yeap. I make this comment quite often. When we were on dialup, websites had to be simpler and more "to the point" so they loaded in a tolerable amount of time (no comment on how long it took those.... *ahem* jpgs I was always downloading though) But now that we all have decent speed, designers throw every stupid little thing to slow the process down. A lot of that is "weight" is thrown on the local user's PC too - having to fire up java, flash, embedded this and that - if you dont have a SSD, you're screwed.
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Yeah, I used to surf with image loading disabled by default back in those days...
 
blackangst1 said:
Grats OP! I just got Gigablast (Cox DOCSIS3,1) installed a couple days ago...getting about 970 down and 8ms pings. Very nice.
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When I first got my 25 Mb fios I was getting 0ms ping, now with 100 Mb it hovers around 6ms. Could get giga but eh I don't DL that much.
 
UNCjigga said:
IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.

edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
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This. I had gigabit for a little over a year at my rental before buying a house. At my new house, gigabit was available but I opted for 100/100 to save $40/month. I don't notice the difference at all.
 
SKORPI0 said:
Nice. OP, what's your monthly bandwidth cap? Comcast/Xfinity only gives me 1024GB/month at 180 down/12 up.
Pointless for me to go any faster if I end up using that cap and go over. I don't want to pay $50 more to go unlimited.
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0 cap as I get TV from AT&T as well One of the primary drivers of keeping TV
 
UNCjigga said:
IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.

edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
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Honestly, I'm sure it's overkill. But often my kids will be sitting there, playing a game online, youtube videos streaming on a phone, while skyping on another screen - this is both of them doing all those things at the same time , by wife streaming some videos, I'm trying to watch TV or play a game or *gasp* RDP'ed into my work desktop trying to earn a living and my server is downloading or backing up etc, we will most definitely flood 100Mbps, if not 200Mbps. The next tier down is 500Mbps and it's only like $10 per month cheaper. So why the hell not just get 1Gbps? Now I can host my own photogalleries, Minecraft server (saves my kid $10 a month) etc etc
 
I'd still probably downgrade. Unless you're running a streaming server for multiple clients or doing major file transfers for snapshots/backups where time is a factor...$30/month sounds nice. You can do a lot with a 20meg connection....gig seems overkill.
 
Scarpozzi said:
I'd still probably downgrade. Unless you're running a streaming server for multiple clients or doing major file transfers for snapshots/backups where time is a factor...$30/month sounds nice. You can do a lot with a 20meg connection....gig seems overkill.
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Trouble witha a 20mb connection is it is really easy to saturate. I had 30mg for a long time and movies, web, were no problem. However if I had a download running on my PC I had to pause it to watch netflix. Or when I was gaming at night our phones would randomly start doing updates and my ping went to hell for 10minutes. I mean theoretically none of that really should have been a problem with Good QoS management, but it regularly sucked in reality.
 
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