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I been around PCs since the Commodore 64 came out where you took your home phone headset and placed it on modem cradle.  Then progressing up to modems that tied into you phone line of every new speed that came out.  Then for a bit I had a South Western Bell ISDN line that was 128k - if a call came into the house one leg dropped off (PC stay connected @ 56k) but I could take/make calls.

Then Austin got cable internet and I was a early bird adapter of a few 1,000 users.  We actually had to go into their engineering department to learn about the setup because we had to install it ourselves in our homes.  That actually was great because for YEARS I had the direct line into their engineering department for any issue I had (including video).  That was around 1998 or so and I've been on their cable service since.  While generally Cable Internet is great, especially compared to my old ISDN or even DLS, cable wasn't getting much faster because it is limited by the fact its coaxial cable in your house.

Late last year a company called Frontier ran around the our neighborhood to lay fiber cables and I got a new utility box (for the record, I hate were they put it in my yard).  About two weeks ago I finally decided to get their 1GB Fiber Internet (up and down) and Digital phone (I'm old, I still want my home phones to work).  Between the yard, to the house outside wall, through my attic and into their modem is fiber.  Out of the modem is CAT 6e to a Amazon EERO Wifi 6e router.  At my tower PC I nearly get the full 1GB up/down speeds.  Then on my iPhone 16 Max I only get slightly less with its WiFI 6E connection.

Granted the down speed is only about double of cable but it makes a difference.  Its the upload speed that makes me so happy.  With cable I was lucky if I got 25MBs.  And uploading a video to YouTube seemed to take ages.  Now a 1GB iPhone HD video takes about 30 or so seconds to get up to YouTube!  Man, I love this new fiber connection.

Oh and on top of all that, I am paying about 8 dollar less than what I was paying Spectrum Cable!