It's weird that they would pick and choose which neighbourhoods get a specific speed. I wonder if they only provide the faster speeds to the houses that are closer to the central office. Fibre doesn't have as much attenuation as DSL has but maybe at those speeds and the tech they are using still has some short distance limitations. They typically use multi mode fibre which is for shorter distances. They can put something like 64 customers in one fibre strand as it splits up the colours using a prism at the distribution point where it breaks down to individual drops. At least that's my understanding of how it works. So could be you are further than what the 5 gig service can reach. Either way anything over 1 gig for home internet is kinda nuts considering most network gear is gig anyway, unless you're buying enterprise gear off Ebay.
50 gig that's crazy.
If they don't allow servers, or offer static IP blocks, it's kinda pointless though. If I had that kind of speed I'd want to be able to host services. That's enough to start a mini colo facility. Get like 50 customers hosting game servers or whatever and it would be a nice side gig. And free heat.
Damn that's cheap! Paying around $70 for 20mbps. I can get up to 250 but that's like 170/mo lol. I dropped down to 20 years back to try to save money and for day to day use I don't notice a difference so stuck with it.It is $300 though.
Though the 5 gig for only $90 is pretty decent
Damn that's cheap! Paying around $70 for 20mbps. I can get up to 250 but that's like 170/mo lol. I dropped down to 20 years back to try to save money and for day to day use I don't notice a difference so stuck with it.
Are you Mormon or something? Family of 15?If you have a really large family you may need 5 Gbps.