Why is 1000mbps internet only guaranteed at 900mbps and what’s the equipment needed to get the 1000mbps advertised?
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There’s a lot of good, but technically wrong, answers here.
2.5gbps equipment is needed to truly see 1gpps, yes. Also, they’re not hooking up 2.5gbps equipment in people’s homes for 1gbps service. But the real reason you’re able to be sold 1gbps even though that will never happen is what are you going to do, switch to their fairly priced, advertising truthfully competitor? They’ve invested a lot of money in ensuring that competitor doesn’t exist.
1gpbs speed (may actually be 900mbps), unlimited data (may actually be 4GB), enter your name to win (enter your name for a chance to win), we’ll keep your data safe (we won’t keep your data safe). This is just how buying things (at least in the US and wherever you are, it sounds like) goes. What are you going to do, sue them? Switch to another company? Truth in advertising is now only required in very specific areas.
If you look at your agreement with your internet service provider, they don’t even have uptime requirements for residential accounts. If your service was slow, their bad they’ll do better next time, here’s 1 days credit since it was slow on one day and you managed to spend 2 hours on the phone with support to get that credit.
If you want to pay for a speed and get that speed, sadly, you need to have a contract written specifically for that. It’s called a Service Level Agreement.
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