So, I have Charter cable down here in dumb southerner land. I pay a ridiculous amount for phone, cable, and internet. Almost 260 a month. Im thinking of switching to AT&T bundle which would be 170 a month. I have fiber optics laid in my neighborhood so I would be getting that internet plus there big cable package. Call me old fashion plus phone.
My question, is fiber optic really all it cracked up to be? Should I look at something else? Is cable internet better? Im not a tekkie. Let a bro know.
Unless you have fiber wired in your home, this is the same AT&T uVerse setup as they've had for a decade or more.
They run fiber to boxes in the neighborhoods and then the normal copper wire (coax) to the house and in the house.
Nothing wrong with it, but it won't be anything wildly special that cable can't do.
Comcast has Gigspeed (1 Gpbs = 1000Mbps) offerings on their copper lines as well.
Basically you're looking at switching over to same internet service, different TV service, for 90$ less a month.
I'd say it depends on if you like their TV package/service, or if it is good enough to save the 90$ a month vs w/e you have now.
And one last note for you and anyone else who it might help....
The unit of measurement for internet speed is in bits.... Megabits, Gigabits.... 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps
You will see data generally measured in BYTES.... a MegaByte and a Megabit are two different units of measurement.
1 BYTE = 8 bits.... 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits
They advertise in bits because the numbers are larger and it sounds better, but when you download stuff it is measured in BYTES, not bits.... in the nomenclature they sometimes signify this with lower case for bits and upper case for Bytes.
1 MBps = 8 Mbps
So if you have 1 Gbps internet and you want to download a 10 GB file = 80 gb, in theory it will take 80 seconds, not 10.
And so help me God if one of you tech elders brings up the 1024 multiples and complains it isn't multiples of 10s and confuses the plebs, I will beat you with a 1994 Gateway monitor.
