I live in an area that’s considered “sparse suburban”, or as I like to call it – “the sticks”. So imagine my surprise when a company started stringing fiber on the utility poles this past December. A few months later, and I got an email yesterday saying “ok, it’s available now”. I figured there’d be a bit of a wait to schedule the installation because everyone would be signing up for the new service, but nope… today was available. The tech just left and now I have gigabit internet.

I put some PVC conduit in the garage yesterday to make the installation nicer and the tech was very nice about helping me fish the cable through. I’m quite pleased with the result.

They have up to 5 gig available, but I don’t have anything that could even use that. My router has a 2.5gig port, and I could buy an SFP+ module that goes to 10gig, but at this point I don’t see the need. I never thought I’d say this, but 1gig is fast enough. Even my “old” 400 mbps was fast enough, but it was very slow on the upload, and I like keeping everything backed up so that would take days sometimes.

Anyway, yay fast internet!