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caesarthegecko t1_jb37fk3 wrote

Reply to comment by one800higgins in AT&T Fiber expansion in Lakewood by one800higgins

It used to be the case (and I thought it was still the case) that any cable wired connection to the internet was far better than anything through a phone line because it is much more consistent service. As far as I'm aware AT&T has always been utter dogshit service at least in Cleveland.

Have things changed somehow in the past 5 years?

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one800higgins OP t1_jb37suc wrote

Fiber isn’t phone line. It’s fiber optic cable. It’s so far above the capabilities of cable internet.

Also, it’s not new. FiOS directly to consumers (and not just businesses) has been around for like 15 years now. Tons of providers use it. It is the backbone of every major internet provider. The faster cable speeds are often due to fiber to the node setups bringing the bottlenecks of cable internet closer to the houses. AT&T, Google, Verizon, and many others have been doing direct Fiber internet to homes for waaaaay more than 5 years, offering 1-5Gbps speeds for half the cost of cable internet.

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