Heh, I just noticed this shit is available in my area now.
I already know that shit is stupid for me but still interesting to see it offered here, in a pretty poor area (the average annual income is around 50-60k).
>>53220208
>comcast
>ever
>>53220870
Truly the worst.
>>53220884
sadly they are the only viable option here, with att only going up to 75 down for $75 a month
crapcast has 150 down for $50 a month
the only other options are 20 down from some local place that can't give more than 10 down of the 20 they offer for $40 a month, or sonic 50 down for $70 a month which is just rebranded att
>>53220208
>2 "Gigs" down
>5 megabits/s up
useless desu
"gig"- what
>>53220980
yea, i'm sperging out a bit at the 2 GB not being 2 Gb
>$300/mo
>when Google fiber is $70/mo for 1 Gb up/down
>>53221469
how much is it to stop google from spying on your activity? at least att gigapower has an option to limit its spying for more money a month
Poor area
>50-60k average salary
Anon I don't think you know what poor is.
>>53220208
>299/month
>>53220208
>300/month
>3k installation fee
lel
>>53220208
2 GB? So 16 Gbps? That's incredible given 10G Ethernet isn't in widespread usage yet.
>>53220208
is there a single service you can even download shit from at that speed?
What if that "GB" isn't a typo and they're actually offering 16 gigabit service for $300/month
>>53221679
Why would google need to spy on you traffic when you enter your porn and shopping interests directly into google?
>>53222910
Yeah, that is litterally average income. You live in a solid middle class area.
>>53220208
If I shared a house with a couple people and we could split the costs, it might not be such a bad idea. Split it 4 ways and that is pretty close to the cost of a standard high speed connection.
>>53222941
It is in datacenters, but then you wouldn't be using Comcast.
>$300/month
You Americans never fail to crack me up
>>53223044
At least we are a real country and not whatever make believe land you come from.
>>53222944
Pretty sure I've seen pictures of Steam pushing over 100MB/s before, so it's possible. The real benefit of 1gbps lines would be for places with multiple occupants.
>>53220208
What is this comcast?
$300/mo? Are you serious?
>>53222944
Usenet motherfucker
Isn't the US median household annual income around 50k?
>$299/mo
>>53220208
>300$/mo
When it costs 40$/mo in poland
Even Canada isn't that retarded.
>>53225670
kek, where? Just checked some providers in main cities, more like $2000 per 100mbit symmetric.
>>53225699
Moico, 150PLN for symmecric 1gbps (1$ ~~ 4PLN)
>>53225690
As a Canadian, With our cuck dollars it's actually even cheaper!
>>53225690
>940 down
>100 up
fucking ISPs
>>53225699
And activation fee is 25$
>>53225714
Consider the following:
biggest IX in Broland sees around 350Gbps traffic.
How can a single local provider offer 1Gbps fiber? They can't, of course you'll get 1Gbps to his edge router (maybe), but nowhere else.
>>53220208
AHHAHAHAHA
AHAHHA
OH LOL
Here in eastern Europe we pay roughly $7/month for better internet than that
I pay 10 but it comes with 150 TV channels and other shit
>>53220208
>299 a month
>2GB
>not 2 Gbit
OH wow.
>>53225741
this
So why the fuck are upstream and downstream speeds different anyway?
>>53225741
the only downside is having to live in eastern europe
>>53220208
>50-60k average
>poor
>yfw I get this for free
>>53222910
Welcome to the san francisco bay area where a simple 2 bed and 1 bath apartment runs you 2000 to 2500 a month anything under 60k a year is basically low income if you have a family of 4 people or more which pretty much everyone here does.
I wouldn't even be making a thread if I didn't live in california, mostly because this service only comes to more expensive areas which is pretty fucking weird toe for it to come here.
>>53226554
>free
nah
>>53227910
included in the rent == free
:^)
>>53226554
Its pointless testing a server like 10 miles away. Test to burgerland or something and thats your real speed
>>53227993
actually you pay around 200-300€ /month, but it comes with a free apartment
>>53220208
>$299
>amerifats
>every first world country and shithole around the world gets gigabit
>you can't even get 500 Mbit here anywhere even if you paid 5,000€ because it simply doesn't exist
t-thanks merkuck
>>53228220
Aw, don't be so sad, I can't get gigabit in my area either. The best I can get is 600Mb/s up/down for 20 euros.
>>53228220
At least that is not as bad as internet in bongistan (unless you are somewhere in London or other shit places).
They still funnel money to FTTC solutions and then rip people off with bullshit prices.
>says plainly 2GB/second
>that's 2 GIGABYTES per second
>what it really means is 2Gbps
>that's 2 Gigabits per second (about 250MB/s - that's 250 MEGABYTES per second)
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all
>>53229208
Germany and UK are the 2 absolute shit tier countries in probably the whole world in terms of internet
maybe except North Korea
>>53229956
Comcast is just retarded like that their other slower speeds are in MB when it's megabits per second
>>53220208
> poor area
> 50-60k
this has to be b8, faggot the average income in germany is around 30-35k and it is one of the richest countries
>>53229999
true that
>>53221009
Sue em
>>53220208
>in a pretty poor area (the average annual income is around 50-60k)
Are you serious?
>>53228220
At least it's not Australia.
>>53230027
When the area you live is 1/5th the value of the areas surrounding it yea it's a poor area, don't get butthurt you live in a flyover state or country.
>>53230027
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
he Census Bureau estimated real median household income at $53,657 for 2014 and $54,462 in 2013. Household income varies by race, with Asians the highest in 2014 at over $74,000 and African Americans the lowest around $35,000.[2]
>>53222910
>>53230476
>>53222983
>>53224544
Here's the thing about median income: it doesn't mean that much when we're talking about a city or even a state.
OP could be right, 50-60k in California is pretty lame. However 50-60k in Idaho is living like a king.
My friend bought a house for $120k that has four bedrooms on a half acre lot with a lot of nice features (like a jacuzzi) and it's a pretty new construction in Ohio just a couple years back, whereas $120k where I live (DC/MD/VA) wouldn't even get me a shitty little condo.
SO yes, 50k might be "median" in the US, but it means a whole shitload of different things depending on which area you are talking about.
>>53230882
Minimum wage here is $10 an hour but everything is so retardedly expensive you need at least $15 to live comfortably in a non shitty area as a single person and most families have at least 2 working people to support them with rents in my area being between 1800 and 2500 for a 2 bedroom 1 bath, sure you can find a place for under 1000 a month, but the bullet holes and being more likely to getting robbed don't really seem worth it to save that little money a month
Do the simple math there even at the cheapest a family of 4 will spend 21.6k a year just to put a roof over their head, now don't forget food is also stupid expensive thanks to our drought my family of 3 spends between 150-250 a week in food say around 9k a year in food that's already half of the 60k right there without getting in any kind of bills like phone/internet/gas/electric/insurance
Most people have 5-10k to spare at the end of the year which if they were smarter they would try to save but they don't they spend it on cars or other consumerism junk.
>>53220208
>in a pretty poor area (the average annual income is around 50-60k)
What????
I live in rural Western NC and making 35k PER HOUSEHOLD is average income for the county and middle tier.
As a single male making ~42k year here I live like a king.
Might wanna rethink what you said...
>>53231251
So a flyover state? that's cool if you look at the raw numbers past how much people make but how much shit costs in different places you wouldn't be living in a flyover state
>>53231371
I wouldnt call a state in the top 10 (9th most populous) a "flyover" state.
As far as I can tell, Cali, Texas and NC make up the majority of posters.
Hell even LPG is from NC.
>>53231371
Noth Carolina isn't a flyover state you fucking European.
>>53231995
i'm from cali, your hole of a state isn't worth the paper i wipe my ass with
>>53232179
>i'm from cali
Heh, cancer incarnate. Enjoy Feinstate you liberal kike. I literally would not accept $50000 for free to move to that cancer state.
So how does this actually work? What hardware do they give you? Is it just a cable modem with a 10GbE copper port or something?
>>53232231
honestly i don't blame you, we got enough dumb fucks living here already stay there
>>53232272
no you need enterprise fiber hardware, as in either a 10GbE fiber nic or a 10GbE fiber router, they will sell or rent you one but knowing kikecast your balls will be put in a vise if you agree to that
>>53232330
Good to know. It's actually cheaper to buy an SFP+ NIC and fiber transceiver than it is to buy a 10Gbase copper NIC.
>>53232272
>>53232330
Desktop PC with available PCIe expansion slot
1 10G PCIe network interface controller with SFP+ cage ($200-400)
1 10G enhanced small form factor pluggable SFP+ transceiver (850nm MMF) ($200-350)
1 MMF LC patch cable ($25-30)
From: http://stopthecap.com/2015/07/30/comcast-finds-excuses-to-avoid-installing-gigabit-pro-fiber-construction-costs-seem-to-matter/
>>53232394
Are those the prices comcast charges you if you get the equipment from them?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/671798-001-MNPA19-XTR-10GB-MELLANOX-CONNECTX-2-PCIe-10GB-ETHERNET-NIC-/181942474836?hash=item2a5c9dd854:g:OJ4AAOSwX~dWj-7e
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SFP-10G-SR-Cisco-Compatible-10GBASE-SR-850nm-MM-300m-SFP-sfp-10g-sr-/141721161639?hash=item20ff3d4fa7:g:YKgAAOSwGotWlIVA
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2M-LC-LC-Duplex-Multimode-50-125-Fiber-Optic-Cable-/151991832278?hash=item23636b4ed6:g:K24AAOSwUuFWyv7y
>>53220208
>pretty poor
>Twice as much as I make
>>53232449
>Are those the prices comcast charges you if you get the equipment from them?
i would figure they are, since you can get most of that stuff from ebay like you show for cheaper, especially if you go the used route
>>53232479
i swear it's the same guy shitting up the thread because the tard can understand the economics of being in a different area, take a trip to manhattan, spend $5 on a bottle of water and $15 on some shitty cart food then go back to your hovel of a city and live like a king
>>53220208
Nice, what's the data cap?
>inb4 15GB a month
>>53232741
supposedly it's uncapped, but it's comcast
