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For 10+ years, I’ve had 15mb of download speed. Recently, I was finally able to upgrade to fiber and I’m crying.

by Nyarlathotep-chan


For 10+ years, I’ve had 15mb of download speed. Recently, I was finally able to upgrade to fiber and I’m crying.



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49 Comments

  • hurdygurdy21

    Insane right? I don’t have fiber but I’ve had pretty high speed for a while and it is nice.

    Halo Infinite for me takes about 40 minutes. Clearly I need to invest in fiber lol

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  • GhostalMedia

    I have a solid 1gig line, but MS’s servers tend to throttle in my very large San Francisco bay city. This would probably take me an hour.

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  • rancorhunter

    I moved recently and went from 3MB/s downloads to 40+ MB/s for half the price. I’m grateful now but that’s some shit.

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  • TheLoneWandererRD

    I was there on dial up when I used to leave a 20 minutes youtube video load before going to school in the morning so by the time I got back it was done … now with fiber its done downloading a 60 gb game by the time I finish making my coffee

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  • peebisnumberone

    I used to live in a very rural area in the Midwest US. My internet was so incredibly terrible, it was unreal. There was only one ISP in the area and they were fighting to stay afloat post-bankruptcy, so imagine internet THAT bad. I remember on one occasion, downloading a large game like OP, my download speed was topping out at 800 Kb/s… yes, not even 1 Mb/s. It was just unbelievable, one of those things you’re not even angry at, just utterly amazed. In my frustration, I asked my brother (who has high-quality internet in the Southern US) to test his download speed… it was slightly over 80 Mb/s. His internet (at least, download speed) was running over 100 times faster than mine, that still blows my fucking mind.

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  • GraveyardJones

    Almost the exact same for me minus a year or two haha. Went from 50 on a good day to 500 with multiple devices connected. I had a 70 gig download going when they showed up, it said 10 hours left. It went down to 14 minutes with the new internet

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  • Nyarlathotep-chan

    PLEASE ENOUGH QUESTIONING ME ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BITS AND BYTES. IM TIRED AND I DONT KNOW. I HAD 15 WHATEVERS OF DOWNLOAD SPEED AND NOW I HAVE 1000 DOWNLOAD SPEED THAT IS ALL THAT IS THE POST.

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  • ImpartialHawk

    I went from 25Mbit to gigabit last year. Honestly for most usage it feels about the same, because most Internet browsing doesn’t benefit from more than 5-10Mbit speeds. You only need like 10Mbit for HD video and 25 for 4K. But damn, that gigabit shines when downloading games, and software updates for computers, phones, and tablets. I don’t know how Android does it, but with iOS/iPadOS, the thing spends more time “preparing” and “validating” or “verifying” than it does “downloading.” Like downloading a whole 5GB iOS is nothing, but it spends like an hour making sure it’s right. Still, it is faster…

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  • Brayden2008cool

    Funn enough, you guys have 100mb coax but we pull 1.2gb with our cables in without fiber. Is that just a our area thing?

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  • Blibly__

    I’m still on 20 from like 10 years. In my hometown are a lot of exhibits buildings so they can’t to apply better internet connection. 🤡

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  • RiboZurai

    Man I still remember having dial-up and trying to download a Majora’s Mask ROM took me two hours, not including the time wasted due to download interruptions.

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  • Sunsparc

    It’s life changing. When I switched over to gigabit fiber, the first thing I did was download something large. ~80GB took roughly 7-8 minutes to download. Multi gig files are no sweat, takes less than a minute.

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  • xmascarol7

    Hah I downloaded the same game after I finally got upgraded to fiber after years of DSL. Seeing that download speed kick up to 900mbps and finish the download in 5 minutes was a great feeling. I almost uninstalled and dl’d again just for the rush!

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  • Lantec

    I did a speed test last night when I noticed my phone said 5g+ rather than 5g. And I got [this](https://i.imgur.com/h5MIzua.png)

    I know it’s not millimeter wave fast but if you told me that my cell phone was going to be faster than my cable internet that was connected via a cable back in 1999, I would called you a liar but God damn.

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  • SuspectApe

    My youngest son has Game Pass and routinely downloads and deletes games depending on what he wants to play at the time. Having fiber is the only way to keep up with that stuff.

    I’m glad to see someone else getting the awesomeness that is fiber.

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  • fishbiscuit13

    Local fiber networks are a freaking godsend. I was able to get symmetric 1 Gbps (and it’s actually 1 gig up/down at all hours) for half the cost of Comcast’s 100 Mbps plans.

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  • Kahless01

    spectrum was robbing me for the longest time. charging me 60$ for 100 down. then some dsl company came into town that was slower and the same price but they upped it to 200 just to fight them off. recently a fiber company came in and they upped it to 300dn/20up about 4 months ago for 70$. fiber was 75 for gig up and down so of course i switched.

    they tried every dirty ass trick when i called to cancel. put me on hold for almost twenty minutes. then after they took me off hold the dude didnt speak for another 3 minutes hoping i would hang up. would not let me cancel and kept interrupting and asking why i was leaving. then of course they offered me 500mb down for $50, which i wouldve done and kept had they offered it at any point previously. then he begged me to keep them and call back at the end of my billing cycle and cancel then. of course they dont prorate and i had to pay another 81 after taxes and fees.

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  • Nidrew

    Oh man I’ll be in the same boat. We’ve had 10mb but they layed out the flags to run fiber to our house yesterday. I can’t wait to call our current provider to cancel.

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  • Tahiti--Bob

    we have fiber in my country but it’s literally dogshit and by dogshit i mean doggy poo bro smh. it’s very expensive but we still have like garbage mb of download speed (Madagascar btw)

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  • idontchoosegoodnames

    When I lived in my grandparents house I had on average around 400-500kbps

    In my new apartment I have an average of 130mbps and its honestly just heavenly

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  • sergeantkipz

    Lived in a rural area for all of my life and all we had was dial up or satellite. When I moved away for college and was able to get Gig up and down and I cried the first time I got to use it.

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  • Jwhitey96

    Man at my parents we had 12MBPS which was often 7 down and 1 up, explain where the other 4 went. So when I moved out my GF wanted average internet I said fuck that I will pay the entire internet bill if you let me get what I want I settled at 50mbps

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