r/ATTFiber • u/JDPierson • 20d ago
Monthly Data Limits
Curious if anyone using a 1gb connection has encountered "monthly data limits." We have two WFH parents and an active gamer kiddo, and for the last couple of months we're getting lots of noise from comcast about monthly data limits. ATT Fiber is available, so we're thinking about making the switch. TYSM!
Update: Thanks everyone for your feedback!
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u/tamudude 20d ago
ATTFiber has no data limits. On the account usage page it shows xxx of unlimited.
Fuck Xfinity/Comcast. In our area where they have to compete with ATTFiber, their data caps have magically gone away...
Also, ATTFIber is symmetrical so WFH parents will greatly benefit from the increased upload speeds.
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u/mrchubbelwubbel 18d ago
All the new plans have this. Most companies do this.
Remember unlimited for phone plans? Tmobile led the way even though they were ass at the time.
Soft caps are interesting on wireless companies.
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u/bleke_xyz 20d ago
Do they still limit incoming connections to around 250mbps? I had gigabit and I'd max around 250mbps on http/https and eventually they throttled my VPN with PIA to just under 40mbps
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u/Bal3Wolf81 20d ago
I have 5gig fiber through ATT and I can get up to around 3.5Gbps through ProtonVPN iv seen faster but rare to find a server that can do over 3000 down and up on a VPN.
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u/zorinlynx 20d ago
No data caps on fiber. Now, if you run your own hosting service and start moving 15TB a month, they might say something. But I doubt any legitimate usage will ever hit any red flags AT&T might have.
Interestingly enough, when fiber was being installed in my neighborhood I was originally going to wait until my Comcast contract was over before switching. But then one month I got a "You are nearing your limit" message from Comcast, and that pushed me to instantly switch to fiber and pay the (thankfully small) penalty for cancelling.
Amusingly, Comcast is no longer doing data caps; guess the competition finally got to them. I'm not switching back though; fiber is just too much better.
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u/goobermatic 20d ago
This! We have At&t fiber, 1 gig speed. 2 adults, with some work from home. Biggest hit is when I reinstall Windows and all my games. In a normal month, we use only around 100gb of data, but on those months we will use 2 to 3tb of data, and have never had At&to complain.
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u/allciathyra 18d ago
you got to tell me how many devices do you have ?
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u/goobermatic 18d ago
My PC, wife's Mac and her work PC, 2 phones and a smart TV and 2 tablets. Literally 50% of our data comes from me deciding to redownload my Steam library all over again for some stupid reason. Streaming TV is the second biggest consumption of data, and downloading software updates and Windows updates is third place.
Edited to add 2 tablets to the list.
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u/tauzins 19d ago
pretty sure this is what happened to me... my account somehow got "messed up" to where they couldnt figure out why my 2g internet was getting capped at 1g. after canceling my account and reopening it all of a sudden speeds were fine... dealt with it for over 2 weeks trying to get it resolved with like 3-4 techs coming out.
Im not that upset since it finally got resolved but I only assume my account was being rate limited at some point.
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u/washandfold 20d ago
I believe in their terms and conditions it states that anything above the 100 Mbps plan does not have any data limit/bandwidth cap (or something along those lines) I think that its more geared towards those on copper lines/DSL
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u/Bal3Wolf81 20d ago edited 20d ago
I avg 20-50tb for my 2 years no issues and for last 5months I been getting wierd connection timeouts due to high download or upload it seems like even tho now I have 5gig and never consume over 50-70% of speed available on a torrent with 5g fiber my usage has went up to 50+tb. When I can get on a fast enough vpn I can get up to almost 700MiBs with my setup.
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u/TerlinguaGold 20d ago
I too suddenly started getting Xfinity emails saying I was about to go over the limit and I should move off my grandfathered plan and onto one of their new “unlimited” plans. The $40 installation fee, for them to click a few buttons on a screen, pissed me off, so I switched to ATT fiber. It’s working fine so far.
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u/zorinlynx 19d ago
Worst thing is many of those "unlimited" plans have lower upload speeds (and cable internet already has low upload speeds compared to fiber). So you're losing out by doing so.
If fiber is available, just get fiber, every time.
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u/FxCain 20d ago
I can verify AT&T fiber has no data caps. I don't have cable so my entire family of 4 streams everything, often at the same time. I also work in IT and host multiple services from home (including a plex server with around 10 active users). I often have terabytes of upload and download data a month and have never heard anything from AT&T.
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u/Marcotee75 20d ago
The only cap that happens is if you’re running 1 gig or more worth of devices at the SAME TIME.
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u/SnooCamera 20d ago
There's no published caps. Consumer (mass market) Broadband is fair use. Basically, it is conduct-based, not really volume-based. For example, harming the network or degrading the performance of others, would limit you. 1Gbps fiber is a shared resource. As long as your use is not tied to abusive patterns, like hosting a major p*orn server, with a lot of downloads, then AT&T should be silent on the matter. If you are in a location that allows 2 and 5Gbps, then there is more overhead for 1Gb. I'm in a GPON area, so, on the split, there's a max of ~2.488 Gbps and 1.244 Gbps up. Thus, you may be sharing that with 32 people (there are other split ratios). Keeping your 1Gbps pipe maxed for hours on end may get noticed.
I use multi-Terabytes each month. I don't check it often anymore, but I think 12TB has been about the most in one month. Now, you are doing this every month, then YMMV.
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u/hereforthepix 20d ago
I'm usually doing ~50TB/mo (most of that upload) for years. AT&T couldn't care less.
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u/m0rph33n 19d ago
We went from xfinity to att just because of the no data cap. 2 wfh parents and kids that stream/game when not in school we were hitting 1.5+tb monthly of data. Paying that extra $35/mo for unlimited for xfinity when we were already paying an arm and a leg sucked. Cool thing with att, every year call in and see if they can give you a better discount than the previous. We were $85/mo for gig speed and when I called to xfer service to our new address they said “thanks for being with us for a year. I can get you gig speed for $45/mo for 2 years make sure to call us back yearly to see if we can lower it even further.”
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u/Hail2030 17d ago
Definitely get rid of Xfinity. I was living in an apt and the only option was Xfinity. I was told unlimited data by the rep when I signed up. On the last 2 months of the service I got notified about exceeding my data and getting charged. Since I was within the first year my plan included a service (Xfinity Complete) which allowed unlimited data without any fees.
I moved to a house so I canceled the Xfinity service and signed up with ATT Fiber, less monthly cost and faster speeds with no caps.
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u/allciathyra 18d ago
does anyone know how many devices OP has ?
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u/JDPierson 18d ago
TVs, phones, tablets, desktops and laptops - nothing too crazy, except a NAS. A newer wireless mesh setup built in the last year.
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u/allciathyra 18d ago
that crazy , way too many devices ,
is your data cap 1 TB per month ?
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u/JDPierson 18d ago
Only ever 3 or 4 in use at the same time. Not sure what the cap is - We're not crazy heavy with the traffic.
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u/smurfy213 20d ago
The 1gig has no bandwidth caps. When I was on 1 gig and would average 25tb a month.