Came across this video because I literally just today dumped Comcast's Gig plan for CenturyLink's fiber internet. The tech told me I'm the first guy in my area to get connected. Glad they're rolling it out around the suburbs of Minneapolis.

My mom lives deep in the mountains in Puerto Rico and she has fiber to home installation. 300 MBPS TV and Phone for 55 dollars and she just do Facebook on her tablet.. I live in Houston and we have no fiber. Life is just ironic

Getting fiber Tuesday! They put the line in two days ago and they just have to put the router in and I’m set 😃 can’t wait

Just had my install this week. They installed main hardware in electrical box outside (where my cable came into house) and flat box in livingroom (my choice of location but I think I'd change that now) and they plugged in a 4 unit mesh system that used wi-fi 6 (it might be 6E) and each unit has two Ethernet receptacles on the bottom. They are large enough to require you to use bottom plug on A/C plate or lose one recepticle. Super easy setup using the Q 360 app on iPhone. Bring phone near unit and it sets itself up. The mesh system seems to always be fine tuning itself since speeds have increased a little. Over wi-fi I originally was getting 300-350 mbps on Wed. By Sunday it's now 450 mbps. I don't need my cable modem or wi-fi router so I have more space around my main computer/media server. Very clean setup. I've been experimenting hooking up my HDHomeRun 4K but local ATSC 3.0 channels are flaky at best. Sound on only one network, nothing to do with the wi-fi mesh or fiber. I've moved individual mesh units with no problem and having those two Ethernet sockets are nice. I'm thinking of switching several of my devices like TV, printer etc to connecting through Ethernet to mesh network. Wondering if there is a speed/reliability improvement going that way.

TO THE RAF CAVE ROBIN!!! Great video!!

Interesting how it's made in USA. I'm an Optical technician in France and we use fiberwelding in the box in front of your neighbor's house :)

awesome 😊 I got jio fibre yesterday in India superb fibre! love USA ❤️

I have Century Link fiber at my new build. It worked out nicely having all the conduit ran from DMARC to street locations all new. $65 a month, free install, free modem (ditched and used my Ubiquiti ER4 and removed their router, and not my UDMPRO, just connect to VLAN 201 with PPPoE creds). I love my fiber, it is freaking FAST and very VERY low latency

Had fiber a few years ago and it was great. Then went back to Comcast as they had become the sole provider of my favorite sports team in my area. If you didn't have Comcast you could buy a 40 dollar package with a few select games. Then a few months ago discovered KZfaq aka Google has a TV service for far less then what Comcast was charging me for both internet and TV. Even with cutting the TV part out of our service still paying about a dollar per MBp/s. Found out Frontier had ran the bulk fiber well before we had moved into this apt complex and we finally switched over. Just about 500 up and down. Now I have to upgrade my router and patch cables to handle the upgraded speeds lol Comcast is just a money grab now.

Awesome video brother. Thanks for showing the install and interviewing the installer. Really helps fill in the blanks. Would like to know the issues getting it installed... I so wish I had the option. Thanks,

Thanks for the install video! The part where you ran the last speedtest on Xfinity, the upload part is not acruate at all. The finally result is, but when it jumped to over 100mbps up that is not possible currently over DOCSIS 3.1 upstream. I guess its the windows 10 app cause theres no way you can get over a gig on the upload if your only using a gig ethernet adapter, its not techincally possible. But anyway Enjoy the speeds! Thats awesome!

Great upgrade man. I would never go back to cable ever again. I love fiber because of the download and upload speeds. I am shocked how cheap a great service is over outdated cable.

Great video of the full install process. How are things going since? I just got a flyer for this 65 monthly service offer. Going to look into it. Any chance we can get a video on how your using the CenturyLink modem with your router? If that's still your set-up. Thanks

Wow! Awesome video! I'm thinking about switching from 1-GB Xfinity to 1-GB fiber (with Sonic) at their 12-month intro-price of $40 per month ($49.50 with the $9.50 Residential Gateway), then regular price $50 per month ($59.50 with the $9.50 RG), excluding any CA taxes and fees. I'm currently paying Xfinity $132.98 for the 1-GB internet and cable-TV channels (Double Play) for a 12-month intro-plan. But from Jun 2019 to Jan 2020, it was only $127.63. Then went up $5.35 (a $4.00 increase for Broadband TV from $9.50 to $13.50 plus taxes). Also, in Jun 2020 my intro discounts stop. So the same service will go up $65.00 plus taxes (totaling over $200.00 -- Yikes!). Comcast raises their prices every year, their base price and added on fees, sometimes twice a year. It's an annoying annual price hike for the same service even if one can afford it! So I'm thinking about ditching Comcast, just getting the 1-GB fiber internet as I 99% watch my $12.99 per month Netflix, rarely my Comcast TV channels. My only concern is whether Sonic (the new competition) will jack-up their base price and fees and taxes just for 1-GB Internet after 1-year to near Comcast prices for 1-GB plus TV -- forcing me to go back to Comcast for a better deal at a lower cost ... especially as Comcast has a near-monopoly in Northern CA. I guess free-market competition is a myth when you become a mega-ISP-corporation as evidence by most high-end modems and routers all marketing themselves as Xfinity etc certified. Yikes! And to think I just bought a high-end Netgear CM1000 modem and ASUS RT-AC88U router to handle my 1-GB internet. I guess I'll donate them to a local church since they don't handle fiber optics service and Sonic requires one use their RG.

Awesome dude !!!

Holy smokes!! Awesome !

I ordered 1.5gbps fiber for just a tad cheaper than that and it gets installed tomorrow 😆 Can't wait !

Wow Amazing Raf

Wow! That's awesome brother. :-)

Where at in Minnesota? Everybody in Fish Lake Township and my Township in Nessel, Minnesota recently got Fiber Optic Internet. I think Century Link payed for 60% of the costs and 25% of the cost was payed for through our property taxes. Worth it so far. Testing this past week been getting 3-5ms Ping with around 930 Down and Up. The installation and digging costs should all be free too.

That was not bad for cable at all! Probably about the max upload they could give you considered there are a bunch of TV channels and downstream channels on that cable. I lived in LA for a bit and TW/Spectrum cable was the only provider. It absolutely sucked and was incredibly expensive. ‘Up to’ speeds of 200, but 20-75 was more realistic - and they even offered gigabit! The cable technician told me there are about 1500 people on a node. That’s pretty insane considering I moved to Europe before the pandemic and a cable technician there told me 400 people on one node is the absolute max. I pretty much always got 800-900 Mbps on cable for half of what I paid Spectrum. I can only imagine how congested their network must’ve been when everybody started working from home. Then I switched to DSL because I realized it’s way cheaper and still fast enough for me. I live far away from major cities (no fiber) but still get 100 down and 40 up... on DSL. With 5 to 6 ms ping, better than cable and hasn’t gone down once. AT&T DSL wasn’t even usable for me in the U.S., but it works fine here. I really hope they start rolling out fiber in more places in the US, it’s the best way to improve the internet situation. It’s like rural parts of France or Eastern Europe, where they just skipped upgrading DSL or investing much in cable and went straight to fiber.

I've had Fiber internet since 2009 via Verizon and now Frontier FiOS. The best part about it is the reliability! In the 10 years I've had it, the internet has only went down like 3 times from what I can remember. When I had Time Warner Cable before that, internet went down randomly 1-2 times a month for short periods. I had to have my original ONT replaced last year because it started causing TV service issues, not bad considering it was 9 years old. I cut the cord early this year and just stick with Netflix and Prime video now.

I'm a broadband tech for Lumen/CenturyLink/Quantum Fiber and fiber optic internet is ingenious. Quantum offers up to 10 gig internet and cat7 Ethernet cable. Things are done differently here in Seattle with a shit ton of aerial fiber. It is mostly buried in metro Seattle tho with the FSAIs mostly down inside manhole accessed underground service tunnels. The installation is pretty damn similar at the house tho.

I love how you are so excited. i would be the same.

Best man cave bro amazing channel

Great Video Thanx, century is to come install next week and im not sure if they will have to like you go to hub bc i know the wires that go to building across street are right in front of my parkway , and i have nothing wired inside house , so they need to do wire from ONT to were it will terminate i guess by my TV wall ,I needed to see this vid bc im hoping its All the fiber line up to new wall jack. I will soon find out nx wk. my issue is moving so much out of way for clear access to get done ….Cheers

Took them 2 days install my century link fiber internet but it was worth it plus I’m getting a discount for taking so long

My bill after taxes and fees $71.50. Damn Comcast was charging me almost $20 bucks just in "fees + taxes". So glad I switch. Fiber gig is so glorious!!!

ATT buried fiber in front of everyone’s houses a few months ago and just this week I was able to order it. 1gig up and down no caps for $70/month. My comcast gig was only 40 up and $150 month with uncapped service.

I have fiber optic at speed of 500MBps from my internet provider. I could get 1 GBps but 500 is good enough. The cable is via the utility pole and not underground. Far easier to fix above ground than underground.

I want to get fiber but it is 5 block away in all directions at this time.. No plans for it here yet

What did the total install costs end up being?

I got fiber But from Digicel in the Caribbean They are connected through centurylink and I love it

Currently have spectrum 400mbps, it goes out 20 times per day, repair man coming tomorrow, if he doesn’t fix it we will go to centeylink fiber, which the reviews say it’s not bad

I have had c/l for five years! Never going back to cable. Love my fiber with c/l!!! Technically only one outage in 5 yrs and that is amazing!

Very Cool 💎💎💎💎

I have Google Fiber. Pay $70 a month. Just got the 1 gig as I dont need anymore than that. So, when I built my PC I saved a little money on the mobo by not getting a wifi one since I wanted to use LAN anyway to get full speed (sucks that it also means no bluetooth, but its not that big a deal to me). But, yea, its great. It usually is around 900-950 mb up/down with only 1ms ping/jitter (sometimes tests read 0ms ping but I am not sure that is possible theoretically, so I assume it really means some decimal ping under 1 ms). I also have a regular Comcast cable 50mb down/10 mb up just for my work computer. Only pay $9.95/month (because I get the ACP discount). So, yea, I have two ISPs for under $100 a month. I live in Nashville, TN. Nice setup man.

I live in New Zealand and I've got a 100/20 plan with 10 ms ping right now but there is 10 gig trials running around the country

awesome

I'm making the switch from Cox this weekend... they advertise 1gb speed through fiber they installed but haven't gotten higher than 300mps down and 70 up, and I've been paying $130-$170 each month it varies idk how since I dont add nor remove services... so hopefully this will be my savior to my problems that I've had with Cox.

i recently upgraded to fiber in my area with Metrolink. They had a 1 year 59.95 1Gbps up/down promo then it goes up to $69.95 with no caps. i also switched from Comcast Xfinity. I LOVE FIBER!

This was funny to watch, I’m a fiber technician with Verizon.

I'm thankful our neighborhood is old and has utility poles

At least someone in the Minneapolis area can get fiber from Centurylink. They pulled fiber all the way down my street (on the other side) and they continue to tell me fiber isn't available in my area (Blaine). Waiting on Comcast to do a survey to tell me how much install will cost for Gig Pro (2 Gbps up/down). Centurylink's loss as far as I am concerned.

Fiber finally coame to my area. so it's a little cable. I'm so done with black out and hacking issues with my current COX Internet.

I can usually get close to a full Gbps upload from CenturyLink. Their download seems packet shaped to death, though. I do give them credit for my install. We didn't have fiber to our box. They could have said screw you. They ran a temporary fiber drop from the neighbors box until they can do the permanent run in "2 to 10 weeks". No extra charge for any of it.

Awesome. I am still on Century Link DSL waiting for them to get Fiber in my area. I am in Federal Way - WA 98003. Just curious as to where you are? I was told by my previous phone company before Century Link bough them out we would be getting fiber at that time it was US West then they were Qwest then Century Link took over Qwest. Some parts of Federal Way have CL fiber - but as for when my part will is still TBD.

Good afternoon, just curious for an update? I’m literally a click away to change to quantum fiber just want to see if it’s still worth it?

Can’t wait to move so I can get this

I've had CL price for life since 2007 and the price has been absolutely the same since then. So don't listen to people who claim they will raise it anytime they like. They have honored their guarantee to me.

Realistically, the most accurate test is Speedtest By Ookla CLI, this is a test in command line so the precision is even better

Just to be clear after watching your video. They did not "trench' your cable along the street they 'bored' a tunnel using a Witchditch device and ran the cable through. Trenching involves surface digging and make more of a mess. Unless you were having Cable reliability issues it looks like you basically traded Cable for Fiber and got: 1) Slightly lower Ping times (3ms) from an already (10ms) low Ping to begin with (which would not be noticeable) 2) Same Download speeds (940Mb) 3) Vastly higher Upload speeds (50Mb to 1Gb) which would not be noticeable for most people. Now this higher upload speed would be noticeable for content creators who upload large file like KZfaq videos. 4) Unknown long term reliability (I realize some people have more outages than others but in 25 years of Comcast cable internet service I hardly ever have issues). 5) Lower monthly price (read the fine pint and you see that Centurylink can change your lifetime price or any running promotions at any time in the future at their discretion). If for some reason their prices go up yours will too (Starlink just raised their prices as well) 6) You must take paperless billing and prepay to get the lowest price (not unusual) Not saying it is a bad product or a bad price but it seems like you really only got a much faster upload (which may be very important) for a slightly lower price (I pay $20 more for 1Gb Cable, was able to negotiate a lower Cable price and you lose some fees when you drop Cable TV). I do not have any Fiber providers covering my area (Minneapolis suburb) so Cable is the best I can do. If Fiber becomes available here then I would probably switch but might run both for awhile until I was sure I liked it.

Cool, name also Awesome Man Cave....

For the super nerds in here that know what they are doing. Always check with your ISP about the kind of handoff you want. In my case, I wanted to use SC > LC OS2 Armored Fiber > SFP+ Module > connected directly to my router. This removes the need for the ONT device and the need to convert the signal into a copper signal for termination on your router.

Hope CenturyLink buys out Frontier here in SoCal, I would jump on gigabit for $65 in a heartbeat.

1 Gbps up and down here in India, $40 bucks a month. Sweet.

Just came across your video super awesome and I see its from 5 years ago are you still using the quantum fiber ? And has it been reliable? Cause I'm using cox gigablast rn but have seen quantum has become available in my area so was wondering

I can only run CenturyLink, Xfinity, and hughesnet. They don't have fiber, and my CenturyLink speeds are 2 down and 0.8 up. What do I do?

What city was this located in MN? I work all over the metro and this looks like a much different install.

I have a question. So I got spectrum gigabit Internet. I see on your vid the guy installed wires around the house and all that...the spectrum guy here only setup a modem and a new wire for the modem...so does that mean I don’t have fiber? Is fiber different from gigabit or something?

I have cable in EU - 264 down / 26,4 up - incl tax my bill sums up to 76,25€ - include cable modem, base fee, fixed IPv4 (+ reverse name thx to very handsome customer service) - without any dropouts it's crazy to see other countries get full sym 1G fiber for less - well, as chanselor Merkel said: internet is a new for germany ... it will take ages until we get to the point others live already today

went from cable net to fiber 1000 AT&T VERY HAPPY with speed and 1/2 the cost with no monthly data cap to keep an eye on ... the only downside is when my cable net provider COX went so went my email addresses with them after 60 days Gone... and that creates a huge mess after having 3 emails with Cox.com for 20 yrs and everyone having these emails to contact me for work and placing net orders ...

Do you have to have a special network card inside of your PC? or just your regular 10/100/1000??

what kind of fasteners did they use to secure the fiber cable to your walls?

May I ask what are your speed test with your nighthawk and fiber over wifi? I also have a CenturyLink fiber 1gb speed and on the market for AX router. Thank you for your help! Your videos are awesome man!

Great video question for you did you have to use they’re modem? And was it difficult setting up your Netgear router?

Curious if Centurylink has jacked up the cost now that it's been a year. It doesn't look like this is part of their "price for life" so how much worse does the pricing get?

Hey man! They offer this in my sub! What are your opinions on it now. Please be honest, I am thinking about switching from the spectrum 400 down 20 up to this. Was the installation process a big headache

Getting Brightspeed fiber tomorrow

Id have made sure to connect to a 2.5gbit Ethernet adaptor to get that full gig, especially if there was any over over-provisioning. The 1gbit Ethernet adaptor would be the limiting factor and probably why it stopped at almost 950mbit. I’m sure you probably have 2.5gbE looking at your computer setup / router but just sayin!

I would have just paid the $1000 or whatever to get the line, as lucky as I would have felt to even have that service available; all I get is "check back next year" from the reps.

1Gb FTTH in Ireland, but it can go to 10Gb once they enable it at the exchange. In reality 'just' getting 940Mbps down, but it is fast enough at that.

Is that wired or wireless also if wired what kind of Ethernet cables are you on?

Do you have a 10gig NIC for this test, or just a 100/1000? You're also using Cat 6, right?

Just got fiber available and I live in Minneapolis. How did you get it 2 years ago?!

I'm stuck with sorry ass cox internet ,I tried century link but they don't offer fibre where I live I'm so pissed .

check this out, this month online only 50 bucks in the Tacoma /Seattle area.. I got mines But I'm not getting your speed and I had to took the 6ft cat5 cable off the Fiber conversion box and put a 1ft Cat6 to the modem/ wifi box C-Link provided:;???? Can I take there Modem / wifi Route off I did not see yours I have EdgerouterX and TP-Link ac1900 also a R710 sever,, thanks for the great Info.

You should see if you can get a faster handoff. If your still using 1gb copper Ethernet handoff I’m sure your leaving bandwidth on the table. Do they have any ont with 2.5gb Ethernet out?

That’s a great deal. I pay 95 for ATT fiber.

Somethings going on with my service then. I have the same plan from CenturyLink, but I'm getting less than 100Mbps download. I called them to come check it out, and they got 250Mbps, and said that everything looked good. What they heck is going on? Can anyone help with this?

I heard they're converting people to Quantum fiber if they had CL previously @ 65 Price for life. and forcing them to pay current rate. Is this true?

Is there a data cap? Coz gigabit speeds chew through data like kids chew candy. If there isn't, then it's a really good deal for 60$.

Did they hookup your oc3 optical line through the md5 hash?

I might get fiber internet but if I already have normal century link do I still have to do the same process that you had to do??

After seeing them bringing the directional drilling machine go under the driveways. I can see why they wanted to charge 700 bucks. It's not cheap to run them lol.

i have a question, is dsl better than cable since fiber is not available in my area.

What is the best AT&T, century link, or Comcast, or some other thing

Is all that included in the self-install kit?

Can anyone lead me in the right direction? my century link modem went out and I would like to connect my nighthawk ax6600 model rax70. how do I do that and do I need the century link provided modem?

I only get 80mbps at my house. I'm switching to Xfinity until CL gets gigabit at my house, and the second they do I'm going back. I haven't had problems with CenturyLink but the speeds are just too slow for me. They installed something at my house, but I'm not sure if it's a fiber line or not. All I know is a buried cable and dsl in the modem.

What are your WiFi speed looking like? My download speed are terrible 150-200 but my uploads are great at 800-900.

How good is the nighthawk AX-12 or AX-8 for you?

@THE RAFCAVE Hey wanted to ask if its free to install, and how long it took to install and implement into working internet.

Mainline fiber splicer here. A residential customer very rarely actually uses 1 Gbps from the ISP. For example, one of our main hubs with hundreds of fiber customers barely peaks around 1.5 Gbps. 1 Gbps is a sales/marketing scheme. It is cool to know that speed is an option. You can get 10 Gbps with us but it will cost you big money. Most PCs' NIC can barely process 1 Gbps.

That box on the outside of the house by the way is called an optinid.

Still getting great speeds? Any regrets in switching? Looking maybe to switch..

How is gaming? I'm getting CenturyLink fiber soon and I'm curious how it is when it comes to latency in games

We have the ability to get Centurylink DSL which you get 10 mbps upload and 1 mbps download. They won’t run fiber for me. We have the some Xfinity plan that you have.

I have 4 TV's and 4 laptops and 4 cellphones in my house, is 1gbs enough?

Hey raf I live in anoka Minnesota and I average a 60 ping on fortnite... I don’t think the ping on that fiber is accurate... do u know how much ping u get now? On fortnite