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swarmingnarwhal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah i went from a speed of 10 mbps upload to a speed of 300 mbps upload thanks to fiber

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  • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is an actual technical reason for coax networks not being able to provide symmetrical speeds. It has to do with what frequencies (channels) are dedicated to data uplink, data downlink, and cable TV. Cable TV is still the cash cow for coax providers, and installing appropriate channel splitters network-wide to reallocate higher-bandwidth channels to data uplink would result in days or weeks of downtime for cable subscribers, not to mention the crippling amount of money in new hardware. It is a consequence of how the networks were physically built when providers thought that cable and download speeds were all anyone needed; it’s not just a software switch they can flip if they wanted to.

    Spectrum still sucks, but asymmetrical Internet speeds are not one of the things they suck at on purpose.

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s interesting. I knew coax wasn’t symmetrical but never know why.

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      • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It makes sense when you think about it, upstream is typically in the like 5-40mhz range, where downstream/tv is in the 40mhz-1ghz range. The splitting and routing is done at the analog level, similar to how a low-pass filter routes low frequencies to a subwoofer in a high-end audio setup.

        You can’t just have a hardware low pass filter start filtering upstream traffic above what the equipment is designed for, and with frequencies that low there just isn’t the bandwidth for the throughput people want.

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is a consequence of how the networks were physically built when providers thought that cable and download speeds were all anyone needed; it’s not just a software switch they can flip if they wanted to.

      This is true of so much of our infrastructure in the US.

      Not bandwidth speeds specifically but just aging infrastructure that was built out long ago and not properly maintained and/or updated over time

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• TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve seen advertisements fiber internet is in my area (Frontier), starting price is $59, guessing the price goes up eventually?

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  • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have gigabit fiber and am locked in with a price of $59 a month for at least 5 years.

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    • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice, was it easy to talk them into the 5 year or is it standard?

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      • holiday42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh it is $79 now, sure. But next month it will be $84. The next month after that it will be $89.

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      • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In my case it is the default and there is no need to negotiate the rate.

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At&t does the non-intro rate as standard for fiber. I’m not sure about other vendors, but it seems like maybe they’ve realized that most people are wise to their game at this point and have dropped the charade.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t Spectrum offer fiber.

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  • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only to business/enterprise customers AFAIK. Even their residential coax connections are fiber-uplinked from the nearest switch, though.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s so wild to me that america still views fiber as a new thing, it’s been standard in the nordics for like… 10 years maybe?

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