Entouch is now offering gigabit internet in Cinco Southwest, Sienna Plantation, and Riverstone. Took them a few weeks to get it right, but they seem to know what they're doing now.

So you work for them. Not a very subtle humble brag.....

So I have a question about this. Is gigabit Internet really worth it yet? I would think that not matter how fast your download speed is, you are going to be bottlenecked by the source's speed and your NIC hardware. It all seems great in theory, but that's like buying a car that can do 1,000 mph, when the speed limit is 65

I want that car!

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So I have a question about this. Is gigabit Internet really worth it yet? I would think that not matter how fast your download speed is, you are going to be bottlenecked by the source's speed and your NIC hardware. It all seems great in theory, but that's like buying a car that can do 1,000 mph, when the speed limit is 65

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I have google fiber and it's awesome. You're comparison should be more of 1,000 to 600 mph... And new tech is constantly coming out to take more advantage of the speed.

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So you work for them. Not a very subtle humble brag.....

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I do not work for them and haven't been their biggest fan in the past. I've left them before to go to Comcast and if Comcast comes out with gig internet I would probably go back. I thought I'd let my fellow nerds know that it is available in the Tine area. They're not really advertising it that much, I just happened to stumbled across it. It took a few weeks for them to get the right guys out here to know what they were doing. They'll eventually be rolling it out to their other neighborhoods in the Tine area.

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So I have a question about this. Is gigabit Internet really worth it yet? I would think that not matter how fast your download speed is, you are going to be bottlenecked by the source's speed and your NIC hardware. It all seems great in theory, but that's like buying a car that can do 1,000 mph, when the speed limit is 65

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The most useful thing to me is the upload. I had 105Mbs Down and 10Mbs Up with Comcast. I couldn't complain about the download but I do a lot of backing up to the "Cloud" and remote login to my server and love the faster upload. Just for fun I uploaded 8 gigs of our wedding photos to Smugmug in about 45 minutes last night.

But just as you said, you're always going to be limited by the server you're downloading from or uploading to plus all of the connections in between. I had to use their special speedtest server to get anywhere close to gig numbers, which I would guess is only measuring my speed to their server on their own network and seems like cheating. The fastest speedtest I've gotten on Speedtest.net outside of Entouch is 531 Mpbs. I'll admit that I don't fully understand all of the intricacies of the internet. But there are a lot of factors outside of the ISP that come in to play as well.

In addition only desktops on a gigabit network can fully utilize the speed. I have the fastest wifi router out now (Asus AC87R) and my Surface Pro 3 with its 802.11AC card (admittedly its not the best AC card) can't come close on the speed tests. At this point I'd say its overkill, but for me it is also the nerd factor knowing that I have it. I don't torrent anymore but if I did I would imagine that would be a good start to trying to fill up the pipe. They're also offering a 300 Mps package that I could see myself moving down to in future if I wanted to save some money.


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cost?

My speedtest this morning. $70 a month in Smithville.




I like the speed because when multiple users are streaming or gaming it doesn't bog down.

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My speedtest this morning. $70 a month in Smithville.




I like the speed because when multiple users are streaming or gaming it doesn't bog down.

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Those speeds and 19 ping