Real broadband offerings across NA
What AT&T doesn't want you to know.
by Constantine A. Murenin
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Fibre speeds and prices as of March 2013.
We are interested in more providers that offer 100Mbps/100Mbps at under 100$/mo.
Non-symmetric upload speeds below 10Mbps are not acceptable.
Bandwidth caps below 1TB/mo are likewise not acceptable.
Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS
- 1000/1000 @ 70$/mo, 1 year contract,
300$ waived construction fee, or,
- 5/1 @ 0$/mo guaranteed for at least 7 years,
300$ construction fee (one time or 25$/mo for 12 mo)
Chattanooga, TN
- 50/50Mbps @ 58$
- 100/100 @ 70$
- 250/250 @ 140$
- 1000/1000 @ 300$
Cincinnati, Ohio
- 50/10 @ 69$/mo for 12 mo, 100$/mo thereafter
- 100/20 @ 249$/mo for 12 mo, 300$/mo thereafter
Utah
Utopia,
many service providers all across Utah
- 10/10 @ 37$
- 20/20 @ 47$
- 30/30 @ 57$
- 50/50 @ 77$
- 25/25 @ 30$
- 50/50 @ 35$
- 100/100 @ 45$
Sebastopol, CA
Sonic.net
(with definitive and ongoing plans to bring to the same service to San Francisco, CA)
- 100/10 at 39,95$/mo (39,95 is the regular price!)
- 1000/100 at 69,95$/mo (69,95 is the regular price!)
Santa Clara, CA and overall Bay Area, Northern California
Has affordable
Static IP
support,
still old pricing on some pages,
exact served areas are unknown,
but include some (but not all) Pulte Homes
and
several neighbourhoods in Emeryville
(Alameda County)
through a partnership with
City of Emeryville and/or Emeryville Chamber of Commerce and
Emeryville Property Owners Association.
Also claims of coverage in Oakland, Brentwood (Contra Costa County),
Sunnyvale, Mountain View and San Jose,
in addition to Santa Clara, where the company is located.
- 5/5 @ 28,50$
- 15/15 @ 38,50$
- 30/30 @ 48,50$
- 50/50 @ 68,50$
- 100/100 @ 88,50$
- 1000/1000 @ 138,50$
/27 (32 IPs) for 20$; /28 (16) for 15; /29 (8) for 10; /30 (4; 1 usable) 5.
Burlington, VT
- 40/40 @ 85$/mo with 12-mo co (100$/mo with no co)
- 100/100 @ 110$/mo with 12-mo co (150$/mo with no co)
- 1000/1000 @ 150$/mo with 12-mo co (200$/mo with no co)
Cedar Falls, IA
- 2/1 @ 30$/mo
- 16/8 @ 44$/mo
- 30/15 @ 63$/mo
- 50/25 @ 92$/mo
- 120/60 @ 138$/mo
Minneapolis, MN
- 15/15 @ 25$/mo
- 30/30 @ 30$/mo
- 50/50 @ 35$/mo
- 100/100 @ 41$/mo
- 1000/1000 @ 100$/mo
Monticello, MN
More info on MiniNetworks.
- 10/10 @ 29,95$/mo
- 20/20 @ 34,95$/mo
- 30/30 @ 52,95$/mo
- 50/50 @ 95,35$/mo
Sample unbundled prices for a 2-yr commitment.
- 15/5 @ 70$
- 50/25 @ 80$
- 75/35 @ 90$
- 150/65 @ 100$
- 300/65 @ 210$
All around Sacramento, CA, Roseville, CA, and the neighbouring area
(cannot check the prices without an address).
Sample prices below are exclusively for residential connections!
Business customers are only offered a "lightling fast"
asymmetrical 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up, yes, through a fibre-optic connection!
Most ADSL2+ providers offer speeds faster than that!
- 25/25 @ 51,99 (residential-only)
- 50/50 @ 99,99 (residential-only)
Lafayette, LA
- 15/15 @ 34,95
- 40/40 @ 49,95
- 75/75 @ 99,95
- 100/100 @ 199,95
Wilson, NC
- 10/10 @ 34,95
- 20/20 @ 54,95
- 40/40 @ 74,95
- 60/60 @ 99,95
- 100/100 @ 149,95
Salisbury, NC
- 15/15 @ 45$/mo (base price, other tiers add 20$ per step)
- 25/25 @ 65
- 50/50 @ 85
- 75/75 @ 105
- 100/100 @ 125
Bristol, VA
(totally broken web-site; entirely bogus with JS off)
- 6/1 @ 26,36
- 12/2 @ 35,16
- …
- 30/10 @ 59,95
- 50/20 @ 99,95
- 110/20 @ 169,95
- 250/30 @ 259,95
Lincoln?, CA
GREEN-155@ARIN,
209.65.240.0/20 and others.
To see sample prices, enter ZIP Code 95648 (as per whois).
- 15/10 @ HOA fee
- 20/20 @ 59,95$/mo upgrade (seems kinda steep for just 5/10 more?)
Fibre that makes you laugh! LOL
To qualify into this list, the provider must employ fibre, yet offer the same (or slower) speeds over fibre as what would have been offered over xDSL.
AT&T U-verse FTTP
att.com/u-verse.
The 1.5Mbps is the highest upload speed that AT&T will ever provision over FTTU,
where the BPON connection itself, over which the service is delivered,
has 622Mbps downstream and 155Mbps upstream,
which is shared with at most 32 users, and has full overprovisioning support
(i.e. that's how Verizon can provision 50/20 over essentially the same technology).
- 18/1.5 @ 53 (24/3 @ 63 is only available through copper)
Unclear offerings
Now up to 175Mbps download and upload, but still with 300GB usage cap.
In the past, it was
25/7.0 mixed network w/ FTTN DSL and FTTP; extra bonus for ridiculous caps; offered in major cities in Ontario and Quebec.
Copper which is faster than AT&T fibre.
To qualify, the provider must offer uncapped ADSL2/VDSL2, with the option of pair bonding, or competitive VDSL2.
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20/1 @ 39 (1 twisted pair with free PSTN)
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40/2 @ 69 (bonded pair with 2 free PSTN,
no longer offered to new residential customers
(now line-bonding is a business-only option, slightly more expensive),
but existing residential customers can remain on the bonded plan
without any limitations)
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40/20 @ ~35 and down and up; various locations
Not fibre, but uber fast.
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45/45 or 100/100 or 200/200 @ 50,00$/mo or 450$/year in San Francisco, CA and Oakland, CA
Webpass uses wireless-to-the-building model, so YMMV. Some users report outages, but mostly positive reviews.
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