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Been hearing on the radio all kinds of Comcast ads like "we've raised our internet speeds for free!" I knew there was something else at play.
I'm loving my t mobile 5g gateway in my area. No packet loss, ping around 50, and my last game download held over 200Mbps the entire time for a flat rate of $30 a month. Works a lot better than the cable net I had.
What's the data cap?
For shit Comcast it is 1TB which is ridiculously low.
Then they also completely lie to your face about your metrics to make it look like you are always constantly almost at the 1TB cap.
My mom in America just had xfinity installed last fall at her house. She barely uses the internet besides web shopping, articles, and some Netflix. Every month she was somehow at 950-980GB. New WiFi password so there isn't an intrusion, her computer was fine, there is no way she is using that much. Comcast just lies to your face to higher data caps. Data caps for internet should be illegal as it is.
There's not a "cap" but beyond 1.2TB you will get moved to low priority on your cell tower, so if there's any network congestion your internet will go to shit.
I've never ran into this issue since I live in a sweet spot thats close to a tower and doesn't have any high occupancy buildings or heavy road traffic that would cause congestion.
Iirc tmo has 2 tiers. One with a smallish cap and one that throttles based on tower capacity when you hit something like 30 or 50tb. I had the 30 day trial and I've considered getting it as a backup to our cable internet, I've held off because most of the time if the cable is out, it's a bigger issue like a power outage that also eventually takes down the towers as well, plus I think where we are there is only one tower that we connect to and when it goes down we switch to another much further away with barely any signal.
I have spectrum gigabit down and they cap us at like 35 up. I'm watching and waiting while 3 companies aside from spectrum and att rollout fiber all over town. I'm hoping that eventually they get to us. We live in the outskirts and one of the companies expanded south from north of us so I have reason to hope they get to us eventually.
I agree; data caps should not be a thing.
I also have T-Mobile 5G. I once had the luxury of being able to buy fiber 1G up/down before I moved to a new area and that was the absolute best of any ISP I've ever had. Now my only real option with a physical connection is Xfinity copper that was offering 200mbps down 10 mbps up for just $50/mo* terms and conditions apply. $50 is the promotional price for this offer. After one year this offer will expire. Then every year id have to field a call from their promotional dept. offering a 100mbps increase to my speeds for just $5 more per month rather than losing the promotional price and the bill costing $80 with no increase. The straw that broke the camel's back was an attempt to charge an extra $5 a month for using autopay with a debit card. I could save that fee by switching to using my bank's routing number. So I told Comcast 🖕and switched.
My favorite story though is when an Xfinity rep called me to ask about who provides my cell phone service. When I told them that i use Mint mobile and pay $20/mo for 20GB of data or whatever it was at the time, they just straight up told me, "Oh gotcha. Yeah, we can't compete at that price." Then hung up 😂
My only real gripe with T-Mobile so far is that if your price is accurate, then I'm paying an extra $15/mo just based on location despite there being no physical difference in our connection. Also i don't like that I'm unable to do any port forwarding on T-Mobile so it prevents me from running my Jellyfin server and PiHole from home and being able to use it anywhere.
I'm "locked in" at t-mo on price and also have my cell phone with t-mobile. If you aren't on a cell phone plan with them I think they were charging $50 a month. I don't know how long they were offering the $30 deal. I swapped to them pretty early on them having it.
As for your port forwarding issue, t mobiles gateway may not offer that, but it has an ethernet port. Why don't you plug your own wifi router into that and set up port forwarding there and then just treat the gateway as a modem?
I already have my own router connected to it, but I'm a very amateur networker. I taught myself pretty much everything I know through tutorials and blog posts. As far as my knowledge extends, there's no way to open public facing ports through the T-Mobile firewall.
My current workaround is just hosting it on my parent's network and using SCP to transfer my linux ISOs to the server. (Which...sidenote...why were we never taught anything about the SCP command in any computer courses in school?)
I don't think tailscale (headscale for foss) requires pf. I could be remembering wrong, so don't hold me to it, but worth a look.
Threads like this make me cherish my symmetrical gigabit fiber connection all the more.
I hear we'll be getting 2 gigabit in the near future, too.
That's all well and good, but I have no need for gigabit. Online games use very little (heck, starcraft worked great on dial up), and streaming only takes 15Mb most of the time. I'm only paying $30 a month. For that, I'm fine with doing something else for a while during the rare occasion I'm downloading some huge pc game or something.
I’d argue that the main driver for all of this is the increased rollout of fiber. Companies like AT&T started broadly rolling out gigabit plans for what people were paying for sub 50 megabit cable plans. And the lines handled neighborhood network congestion better.
Comcast has to figure out how to be competitive, or they are going to get their asses handed to them.
AT&T and Comcast are both terrible companies with horrible customer service, but fiber is always going to be better than copper.
I was hoping Starlink would also push traditional providers to be better, but it hasn't gotten its shit together well enough yet to be a real threat. Should have known better than to think Musk would be helpful.
Except fragility
If only wire shielding and stress relief was a thing that existed...
My internet has been much more reliable since I moved to fiber.
Nah, they’ve been doing that for years. In the two years since I first got my service at my house I went from 200gig to 800gig with no price increase. It’s p SOP these days when network upgrades take place in your area.
800gig? Can I come live with you?
500kbs upload and 1gb cap -comcast
Wait a second? Do they mean 800gig cap? That isn’t going to work. How can you only use 1gb a month? I use than per hour. Allegedly.
If not, they definitely meant 200mb upgraded to 800mb per second lol, if Comcast had 800gb/s internet they would be competing with employee access to direct private fiber peering between the CIA and NSA lol
If you use a gig per hour you're good at 800gb.
I don’t like playing that close to overages.