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by metadat 1315 days ago
Are you saying Comcast has neglected to keep their network infrastructure up-to-date? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

I have ATT fiber and they don't seem to mind of it running at 1Gbps both up and downstream continually 24/7.
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tzs 1315 days ago
> I have ATT fiber and they don't seem to mind of it running at 1Gbps both up and downstream continually 24/7.

Would they still not mind if all the rest of their customers also were doing 1 Gbps continuously 24/7?

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metadat 1315 days ago
Depends how they architected the network.. maybe the design can scale and tolerate it up to a higher point compared to Comcast's ancient steaming pile.

Bandwidth hogs occur at a predictable rate.

It's amazing when a telco company actually delivers a product customers want. AT&T is somehow pulling it off despite their organizational dysfunction.

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bombcar 1315 days ago
Somewhere at some point bandwidth runs out, though I suspect that it’s rarer now than it used to be (since capacities have increased but things to download really haven’t).
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bombcar 1315 days ago
It’s great right after a new tier is installed because they over provision at the beginning.

It’s hell at the end of the lifecycle because they reaallly don’t want to provision anything new.

Reminds me fiber just dropped maybe I should switch. But I love my tiny little ISP.

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