[montecarl]

Are you talking about the "gigabit pro" plan[1]? That is a $300/mo with a 2 year minimum subscription. That clearly is not a residential plan. You might as well just pay for professional hosting at that point.

[1] https://www.cabletv.com/xfinity/internet

[Sohcahtoa82]

> That is a $300/mo with a 2 year minimum subscription.

Also, that $300/month is the introductory price. Lord knows what the actual price is once the initial 2 year period is over.

[RKearney]

> That clearly is not a residential plan.

That's exactly what it's marketed as. There are also plenty of symmetrical fiber services with hundreds of Mbps of upload from Frontier, Verizon, AT&T, and others.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Just because it's marketed as a residential line doesn't mean it's common at all. Besides, that line, or even the gigabit line, is not available in a very large market.

> There are also plenty of symmetrical fiber services with hundreds of Mbps of upload from Frontier, Verizon, AT&T, and others.

Most people don't have a lot of options.

The options in my neighborhood are either 150 mbps down/5 mbps up with Comcast, or 35 mbps symmetrical with Frontier.

If you have more than two options, and one of them is gigabit, you're extremely lucky. A considerable chunk of America only has 1 option, and the extreme majority doesn't have gigabit down, let alone gigabit up.

[RKearney]

> Just because it's marketed as a residential line doesn't mean it's common at all

Just because something is expensive and therefore unpopular to your average consumer does not mean the product itself does not exist. If we're talking about residential ISP speed, then all residential ISPs and their respective tiers should be included.

Otherwise you're just picking and choosing data points to fit a narrative which is deceiving.