People forget how good VDSL *CAN* (not always) be.
-- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2025 10:46:51 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] T-Mobile 5G and Fiber Home Internet Friends of ours live in a section of San Carlos (CA) where they undergrounded all the utilities, and (apparently) long enough ago that replacing anything is more trouble than it's worth. They're fairly close to the CO, so they are getting att DSL-type service with 60-80 Mbps service (Comcast will not dig up the streets, or whatever Comcast thinks they need to do). They got some kind of promotional thing from T-Mobile, who sent them a 5G modem. Self-installed, and it worked fairly well on the cell phones. However, when they tried it on their laptops, it was seriously throttled; typically in the neighborhood of 10-20 Mbps. Not terrible, but the att service was consistent across platforms at the middling rate. They ended up going back to the att service. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 8/14/2025 8:43 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but T-Mobile seems to be treating FWA and fiber as two flavors of the same service. This might just let them use the same tools for qualification, signup, etc. Or it might mean they view FWA as a precursor to fiber rollout. Sign up home Internet customers using 5G, then where you have concentrations of customers, roll out fiber? That way you avoid running out of celltower capacity, and you capture the customers and keep them away from competitors. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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