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AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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Re: AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to switch to Sonic's Fiber last month.

That may not make any difference, depending on your locality. Unfortunately AT&T infrastructure is still relied on by others such as Sonic, which leases lines from the likes of AT&T fiber, at least in my locality.

Re: AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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Oh man, I thought it was just my crappy old router causing the problems! I've just been too lazy to call them to replace it. I'm going to tweet at them right now.

Edit: Reading the tweet thread, classic interaction: ATT says "please click this to check your connection", guy replies back and says "I think we know more about networks that you do, please get a network admin in here".

Re: AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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post #3

I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to switch to Sonic's Fiber last month.

That may not make any difference, depending on your locality. Unfortunately AT&T infrastructure is still relied on by others such as Sonic, which leases lines from the likes of AT&T fiber, at least in my locality.

Yup --- in most of the south bay Sonic is leading AT&T for its fiber.

Re: AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits

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Can anyone tell me what the symptoms of this would be?

Computer hanging when connecting to random websites some of the time. Apps on your phone just randomly hanging. Streaming services randomly not working.

If you use Twitch you'll randomly have the video break with a connection failure in the middle of stream.

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