Comcast blasted for seeking “loopholes” in rule requiring disclosure of all fees.

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    I’m so glad I don’t have to use Comcast any more. A small local ISP (Sonic) rolled out in my area last year and offers 10Gbps for $40/month - half the price I was paying Comcast for 1.2Gbps.

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      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.

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        Leave it to Comcast to make FTTP suck.

        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).