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Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds::Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term "10G" is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 177 points 1 year ago

Even when they use industry-standard terms, like Mbps, they don't even advertise their upload speed (because it is piss-poor).

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 123 points 1 year ago

Can confirm.

I use Xfinity since they have a monopoly on our area and we don't really have any other choice. It costs $70/month for 100mbps DOWNLOAD. and it's about 8mbps upload.

American ISPs are literally the devil

[-] Jeff@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Holy moly that is horrid :/ sorry to hear it.

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 14 points 1 year ago

luckily, that was the original price. after like an hour on support the price was lowered to $55/mo for 300mbps. Not great but at least it's better.

[-] Jeff@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I went from living in the sticks paying $85 for 500/250 to fios in my new place paying $80 almost gig up and down. I’m happy too but now I wonder if I could have talked them down too. Good idea sir.

[-] Casey_Masterpiece@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Best I can do in my 1k person town in Washington is 10mbps down and less than 1mbps up. It's 50 bucks a month. They ran fiber lines through our farm ground to get to town this spring though so I'm hoping it's available soon.

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