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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
Network maintenances - there's nothing you can do about it unfortunately becuase as you scale GPON it takes small hits when you bring in more OLT's. Small interruptions like that(I cant really tell duration, graph is too small) shouldn't really be a big deal during off peak hours.
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Nobody died, so you're right there. My point in all of this is that you have to really want to jack-off over the daily speed test you'll run every morning for the first month. After that you find that unless you do so serious hosting of some sort, the difference between 60Mbps of, let's say, Time Warner cable and the 1000Mbps GF offers is, well, imperceptible.
So basically for now you're getting something that you needed to be coming off of something seriously slow or some serious file sharing, to see a huge leap in performance.
And when you compare the other areas like TV and Phone (GF doesn't offer a bundled phone service to teleworkers!), I don't think GF is even close yet.
Don't get me wrong, I was more giddy than most to get GF, I really was (networking is what I do... and I telework a LOT), but once I got it and got over the morning tests that show 800-900Mbps, I guess things like having to buy Ooma (or Vonage, or SmartJack), their streaming-to-the-PC offering sucks, not being able to stream at all via the App (whic is better than their PC offering) when away from home, started to bother me enough to not let the 800-900Mbps be the sole determinant of how awesome GF is.
The good news is even with Ooma factored in as an additional cost, GF is still a little cheaper that what I was paying for TWC. Other than the pluses of 900Mbps and $10 saved, meh, I'd rather have TWCs TV offering and 60Mbps (if I knew then what I know now). And if Time Warner drops their rates for 60Mbps of symetrical data, I'll go back to TWC and wait for GF to catch up in all those other areas if TWC sweetens the pot.