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I'm so glad I don't have to use Comcast any more. A small local ISP (Sonic) expanded to cover my area last year and offers 10Gbps symmetric fiber for $40/month - half the price I was paying Comcast for 1.2Gbps down / 35Mbps up.
I'm super jealous. At least I'm moving to a new apartment with fiber from CenturyLink at it, but even they are running $70/mo for gigabit. I'm living the T-Mobile 5G home internet life right now because CL only has DSL at my current place, and fuck Comcast in general.
Even worse is, the new place has honest-to-God fiber from Comcast to the unit--sadly paired with an RFoG converter, so despite it being more than capable of symmetrical gigabit, they still only offer 35Mbps up there. Leave it to Comcast to make FTTP suck.
Yeah I'm super grateful for it. Before I was living at my current place, I lived at an apartment, and we could only get Comcast cable. The apartment building had an agreement with Comcast that ensured they were the only available internet provider.
Wow, that's bad. I didn't know they did that.
Comcast have a legit fiber network where I live (San Francisco Bay Area). It's not even GPON or XGS-PON or anything like that where multiple houses share bandwidth; with Comcast's version you get a dedicated fiber run from your house all the way to the headend, no multiplexing.
You do pay a premium for it though. It was originally 2Gbps symmetric for $300/month, now it's 6Gbps for the same price (with 10Gbps coming soon).
Even worse is that RFoG is compatible with the various PON standards (it's just the entirety of the coax cable plant, just mirrored over light), so there's zero reason why FTTP locations can't have standard fiber configurations and it be shared with the copper plant backbone that was the original reason for RFoG.
Comcast (and the rest of their cableco pals at Charter, Cox, et al, with the exception of Altice) are bascially addicted to copper. My parents had a new house built last year in a greenfield community, and, you guessed it, Comcast ran coax to the houses instead of FTTP like CenturyLink did. I do not understand why brand new copper plant is being buried and installed in 2023, it's obscene.
Jeez, and I thought I was getting a good deal with Ziply Fiber. 30/30 for $50/month. Jealous!
They're also pro net neutrality, anti-throttling and anti-blocking (https://www.sonic.com/transparency). A perfect ISP :)