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Zagrebian t1_iu26oq0 wrote

Reply to comment by voidsrus in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

What percentage of US households have fiber?

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chuck138 t1_iu27axn wrote

I've been waiting for over a decade and I've lived in decent sized cities for most of it. Some have even had fiber but due to building contracts I've never been offered the service.

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Roboticpoultry t1_iu2sno5 wrote

My college apartment building got fiber just as I was moving out and my current building doesn’t want to pay for it. That said, we still have more than enough bandwidth for what we need

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chuck138 t1_iu2zfwc wrote

Yeah I have been paying for the fastest consumer speeds since I've had a full time job and I've never had an issue except for upload speeds.

But I also know I'm paying a premium price for very outdated technology that is run by corporations who have zero interest in improving their services or their customer relations. All of which I have no choice in because they've virtually eliminated all competition.

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goingtotallinn t1_iu3bg9i wrote

Hey what's the fastest consumer speeds you can get and how much it about costs for you? I live in small town in Finland and we can get 10Gbps fiber for 100€/month (100€ = $99.67)

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inverimus t1_iu4jk4m wrote

I don't live in a small town in the US and pay ~$80 a month for 800 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. I could pay $110 for 1200 down/20 up and that is the highest available.

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jbman42 t1_iu5l3pg wrote

Bruh, i live in the middle of nowhere in South America and I've had fiber for several years, now

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Some-Reputation-7653 t1_iu61xkh wrote

Could you be more specific? I’m curious - what country/region; who is your ISP? What kind of speeds

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jbman42 t1_iu7y8kw wrote

Brazilian northern coast, in a moderately sized city of about 400k inhabitants. Local ISP called Proxxima. My plan is for a 100Mbps fiber connection, costs about $20 monthly. I only actually tested speeds once, and got around 90Mbps download, and 40Mbps upload. I get about 120ms latency when playing games on American servers (completely bearable to me), doesn't matter if it's west or east coast. Never had such a stable connection before, and uptime should be around 97%. I literally don't see the need for better speeds, though I guess I could reduce latency if I lived closer to big urban centers.

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Some-Reputation-7653 t1_iu88ft5 wrote

Nice!
Standard of living there sounds pretty good - I’ve a friend who moved to Colombia and he keeps telling me to come over…

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Lunafreya_NoxF t1_iu6svzc wrote

Same thing here. Also, no data caps. That seems pretty common for the guys up top.

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8Bitz0 t1_iu28hpk wrote

According to BroadbandNow (April 2022), 43% of U.S. residents have fiber-optic internet available.

According to Jon Brodkin - Ars Technica (September 2019), Over 30% of U.S. residents have fiber-optic available

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qtx t1_iu3jngz wrote

Those are very tricky articles, they're talking about fiber backbones mostly and not the bit from the backbone to your house, which is the important thing.

The number of people that actually have access to fiber right now is a whole lot lower.

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slow_connection t1_iu29lad wrote

I'm sure it's low, but that's not super relevant. Stadia works fine on cable, and 99% of users will never benefit from 200mb service in the foreseeable future.

Stadia needs reliability, not raw bandwidth. Good cable can provide that, Comcast just isn't good cable.

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ErikPanic t1_iu283gp wrote

Good question. Safe bet it's under 10% and that's me being generous.

I want fiber. But I've never lived anywhere that offers it. 1200down/45up cable is the best that's offered to me, and that shit's $135/month with the "unlimited data" option that you have to dig to even find.

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ShinySpoon t1_iu2iy61 wrote

43%

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ErikPanic t1_iu2lr1v wrote

That's shockingly high. I'm pretty suspicious of how that percentage was calculated.

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ShinySpoon t1_iu2sx1m wrote

So you give “a safe bet” with zero sources and I give you a source that you’re “suspicious” of. I guess just wild ass guesses are your preferred data sources? Ok, good luck.

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geekynerdynerd t1_iu5juqj wrote

You should be. The article appears to be using the FCC's data, which is notoriously misleading, and according to a footnote, they (the FCC) are including any ISP which uses fiber at some point in the connection. So fiber means not just Fiber to the Premises(FTTP) but also Fiber to The Node (FTTN), Fiber to the Street(FTTS), Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTDP), etc etc.

The fiber connection could be two to three city blocks away, not being offered to you at all, and still count under that measure.

The real number is completely unknown at the moment, as the FCC has basically operated under an honor system when it comes to coverage information for the last 20 years or so, and only began the process of changing that about a year or two ago.

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Catzillaneo t1_iu28bvz wrote

Well its not me lol, though our speeds have gotten a lot better if we dont go over the cap.

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goldencrisp t1_iu2desv wrote

Internet options were a factor in us buying our home recently. Luckily we were able to get fiber.

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monacelli t1_iu3casi wrote

Same thing when we bought our house a few years ago. It's a shame Verizon isn't really rolling out FIOS anymore.. I wish everybody had access to an ISP like this. It's fast as fuck and they never hassle me about how much or what I download.

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rabbit994 t1_iu2pqh5 wrote

It's not the wire to the household, it's the wifi to the device. Anyone living in shared area where frequencies are jammed to all hell is going to have latency issues. Since Stadia made more sense for casuals, they were probably more likely to be in area where wifi is very congested.

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FrostyTheHippo t1_iu33vut wrote

It's funny. I actually got AT&T Fiber like 6 months ago, but they force you to use their terrible all in one unit. I'm a fairly tech savvy guy, but for the life of me the best I could do is run my dedicated router in parallel. There is no way to get that BGW-320 unit to just act like a modem.

The speeds were good when they worked, but the signal was so fucking unstable. My wife and I work from home and the internet would go out long enough to get disconnected from meetings like 5 times/day.

So yeah, went back to Spectrum. Got a great deal for $30/month for 500mbps down for 2 years. Don't miss fiber at all since I can use my own fuckin hardware again.

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Feniksrises t1_iu3oszb wrote

I think the real question is: do you have a data cap?

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