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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by mysoulishome@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable internet that people have to use because they have no other option.

Fuck Comcast.

I read online they are abandoning the “confusing” 10g branding but I just saw a commercial for it. They think all of their customers are morons and count on folks having no other choices in a lot of cases.

Apologies to anyone outside the United States, this is just complaining about our poor internet options and deceptive advertising by greedy corporations.

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[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

I am so, so, SO glad I'm now in a home with access to fiber Internet. Real, 2 gigabit symmetric fiber.

The cable company keeps sending me glossy ads in the mail - several per week - trying to get me to go back to 1/4 the bandwidth at the same price. Uhhhh... no.

[-] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Same here. Before fiber came to my suburb I could only choose AT&T or Comcast. AT&T’s fastest plan was 50mbps and never pulled more than 30. They’ve had permits here to put up Verizon 5G towers for 5 years but haven’t built a single one because of the tin foil hat brigade. I would love to switch to Verizon because I’d save a shitload on bundling it with my cell phones. Verizon has LTE but that would be like going back to the DSL.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

What you need is to get your neighborhood on board. If you can generate interest they it suddenly becomes more cost effective for a company to install fiber.

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Spectrum's "deal" for my location was 500/10 mbps for $90/month "introductory price". I asked what the price would be at the end of the introductory period, and they refused to tell me.

Meanwhile, Frontier gives me 2/2 gbps for $100/month, no price changes.

I have no interest in TV, I don't even pay for streaming, so at the end of the day Internet performance is all I care about.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Our subdivision was built in about 2004. They didn't put dark fiber in the ground, for some reason. It took about fifteen years for a private company to come in and lay fiber. I had Comcast/Xfinity at the time (I think it was 250Mb, and definitely asynchronous), who had already started sending out their promotions for gigabit internet service, so I called them up to see if I could get that. "That's only available if you get internet and TV and phone."

Oh, so you can give me just gigabit internet, but you won't give me just gigabit internet.

It was another year before the fiber service was lit, I was the first person to get it in my neighborhood, and it is absolutely fantastic.

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