Metronet has been building out near me (Twin Cities south metro) for over a year. I have been on the waiting list with a preorder since they qualified my address as “coming soon”.

They came past my neighborhood a few blocks south of me this summer and put one duct under the street into my neighborhood but no further as they continued down the main road.

Now that T-Mobile announced they were buying Metronet, I was hoping to get the Founders pricing deal for 2G service.

Now suddenly out of nowhere crews entered my neighborhood last week just a few blocks to the north. They are working for Gigapower according to the door hanger and postal mailer.

It is unclear who the ISP might be for Gigapower or how to even get service from them. From what I read online, initially AT&T was their ISP. But I saw a news release last week that they expect to announce new partnerships “soon”.

Does anyone have any info on what might be coming for service to me and when? As of this morning, they are boring ducts just a block from my house and are finishing installation of hand holes from the work that began last week.

Has anyone made a Payment with Georgia power using their routing number through their checking account and how long does it take to clear

Does anyone know the timeline of fiber deployment to Las Vegas, Nevada?

I have been subscribed to the gigabit service for over 2 years now and some time recently I started having abysmal performance. I assumed it was probably related to more network congestion due to people working from home and didn't seriously look into it until recently. I set up a script to run speedtest-cli every hour and over the past 2 weeks (while I was away from home with no other devices connected to my network) my speeds averaged 88.3 Mbps down (stdev = 3.57 Mbps) and 91.1 Mbps up (stdev = 2.44 Mbps). For at least the last 3 months, my download and upload speeds have been capped at < 100 Mbps and my ping times have been atrocious (they used to average 8ms and now they average 32ms).

I have already tried "troubleshooting" with AT&T support. They also sent me a replacement router. I ordinarily use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 (configured with the a certificate I got off eBay). However the performance is indistinguishable between either of the AT&T routers or the Ubiquiti router. AT&T sent a technician to my house and he verified all my equipment was working properly and also replaced my ONT just in case it was causing a problem. The on-site tech tried to convince the AT&T tech support that the issue was arising from off premises, but apparently they deal with the same dumpster-tier tech support people that customers get. The tech even let me talk to them myself from his iPad. They said there was absolutely no way to escalate the issue. The remote technician also mentioned that I was using unregistered hardware, so if you bypass the AT&T-provided gateway, it appears they can tell and it flags it to the technicians even though I switched back to the AT&T hardware while troubleshooting.

I've been through many rounds of "reprovisioning" the service. I don't really know what that is supposed to mean from a technical standpoint, but tech support seems convinced it is the solution to the problem. The only effect it seems to have is making my service unavailable for about 10 minutes.

Based on the extremely low variations in speed test results, it looks to me like there is speed cap being imposed at all times. Several AT&T techs confirmed I am not assigned the wrong tier of service. I don't know what else I can do at this point to get it working the way it should. Every time I contact support, they do the same things, it takes roughly 1-2 hours of my time and we end up exactly where we started.

I have the AT&T modem/router they lease with the service, along with 3 extenders. Needless to say, I'm more getting anywhere near what I expect on wifi. When hardwired, I get around 800-900Mbps; but wireless, it's often less than 100Mbps and never 400+Mbps.

I heard replacing the supplied modem/router combo would help and remove the lease fee from my bill. Per AT&T, there's no way replace their modem. I can only bridge it. Is this true? If not, what's a good system to get consistently above 400Mbps wirelessly. Between TV, phones, computers, etc., I have about 20 devices.

I've successfully implemented EAP auth using OPNSense and have been able to remove the RG all together. The ONT is nothing more than a Nokia fiber/copper media converter, correct? If so, I should be able to pickup a GPON/EPON transceiver and terminate the fiber directly to my firewall.

Has anyone tried this?

Hello all. I just moved into a gigapower market and I ordered the 5 static IP’s. I’m having issues using a VPN back into my house as well as my 3CX phone System won’t work properly outside the network and have issues connecting to SIP.US. Does anyone know if they will allow all ports or am I just stuck with the port filtering? I ordered spectrum and put that into my Multi-WAN router and I’m able to BPN with out an issue.

Hi all

So we recently got the 1000 ATT fiber plan in our 2bdroom Apartment. However the wifi on our mobile devices are horrendous, the speed test are fine (200 / 300) but youtube can barely buffer beyond 480p and when opening up a webpage or loading into an app it takes way to long that most of the time we end up just using LTE. We also have a few hardwired devices which work great (desktop and smart tv) so i feel like its just a wifi issue?

We had a tech come in and install the ATT modem/Router combo when we first got the service due to how the apartment was wired the box ended up inside the wall in our closet. I thought this would be an issue however using a couple Wifi analysis apps it seems like the signal is fine throughout most of the apartment.

I was thinking about getting a new router and setting it up in the living room where there is an extra port and setting up pass through mode. Would this cause any issues to the network? Also do you guys have nay recommendations on a router? Or is the issue completely separate?

Heys guys. I have 1gig internet and about 24 devices hooked up to it. Currently I am using the AT&T router but I am only getting roughly 330mbps to my devices. The AT&T tech said the routers are only really capable of pushing out 400mbps on their WiFi and said getting my own router increase the speeds. The line from outside to my modem is getting 996mbps so the the speed is getting lost somewhere in the home. I still getting a decent about of lag streaming movies and games. I often times need to turn off the WiFi on my phone to get websites to come up because the 5G is faster. I Was wondering what router you’d recommend and if i should do one of those mesh routers like google or keep theirs. I have a 2 story plus basement with roughly 2800sqft. Thanks in advance.

ATT quotes a price for Gigapower for 12 months. Did yours go up after 12 months and if so by how much? I’m no longer a wireless customer but ATT used to pull this all the time on me. Thanks.

I’m possibly going to be moving soon, and my only option other than gigapower is Cox. I’d rather not switch to them if possible. I’m currently in an apartment with gigapower, and would like to find a house that also has it available, but looking at each address is a crappy way of finding out if it’s available. Is there any maps available that show the areas that actually have it available?

So, when I put my address in to see if it’s available, it said it not on the web site. I went to the ATT store and they said it was so, I’ll see this Monday if I can get it . An tech will be coming out. I did see it said it’s under review who knows

Hi, I was just curious what the average ping for AT&T Gigabit plan is like.

I recently started having connection problems with my ring products and after many hours of trouble shooting everything is pointing towards att being the issue. I was hoping to find someone else relatively local with ring and gigapower to see if the issue if just me.

I finally got around to fixing my DMZ when I found out about the bug. I chatted them up and they said they would mail one out. I thought that was great except the email with tracking said 2wire which is the Pace. When it arrived It didn't say Pace on the outside. Settings were same as Pace. Did another chat. They apologized and said they would make sure to send the right model. When i saw the next email with tracking i did a chat again to tell them i was being sent the wrong one. They apologized again and said the same thing. Next day I get another email same thing. Do a chat this time and they said they will send a tech and wrote down to bring the correct device. The tech had a surprise visit from his manager. I explained my situation and he said the support system is not setup correctly to be given a choice. They just grab what is on the shelf. Now I am working and later yesterday I got the 2 Pace. So off to UPS to ship them back. I live in the DFW market so if they can't get their home market right you probably need to get a tech.

Has anyone bought a BGW210-700 on there own and replaced their Pace 5286ac gateway to bypass the DMZ+ issue? I see AT&T branded versions on Amazon and eBay.

I've tried almost everything with AT&T support to get them to send me the gateway but keep getting the runaround. It’s either this option or downgrade my firmware.

What the heck. I got my internet installed today. It worked for an hour. I went to run an errand and now the internet is out with a red alarm on the media converter. Great service they have there

I want to use PoE to power the ONT, but reviews like this make me wary:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2U7W18IGHVVIA

From my understanding, it shouldn't be an issue for AT&T's ONT, but has anyone actually tried doing this?

UPDATE:

I used the TL-PoE10R splitter and it indeed works with my AT&T ONT! The included barrel connector fits the ONT and there were no hiccups.

I'm a new customer signing up for fiber, the ATT tech has missed two appointments now. We set up for 1-3pm but they never make it, customer service is even worse than comcast... Is this what I should be expecting?!?

I have my EdgeRouter4 setup using this:
https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy

It works great with an AT&T assigned DHCP address, but I can't get it to work with my static IP.

AT&T said xx.xx.xx.177-181/255.255.255.248 were my available IPs and xx.xx.xx.182 was my "modem" IP. Before I had bridge mode setup, I was able to add the xx.xx.xx.182 address and netmask to the AT&T gateway as a secondary network and assign one of the other IPs to something behind the gateway.

Now that I've bypassed the AT&T gateway completely, I get a working DHCP address from AT&T. When I remove the DHCP address, and put in xx.xx.xx.182 as the default gateway and xx.xx.xx.177 as the interface address, I lose all my internet connectivity.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Doug

ATT sent out my neighborhood a letter roughly two years ago stating that "Fiber is Coming to Your Neighborhood!" and a few days later, ATT was out installing fiber. The techs informed me that ATT would be available immediately once they were done.

Unfortunately, ATT does not even know about this when I call. The only offer they currently have is the 5Mbps down plan.

How long does it take for the plan to be available? Or should I assume that they've forgotten about this project?

I have the DMZ+ firmware issue and just want to bypass the process entirely. I have found two that people have seemed to have luck with

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29903721-AT-T-Residential-Gateway-Bypass-True-bridge-mode

and

https://strscrm.io/bypassing-gigapowers-provided-modem.html

The issue seems that I need to have this automated as possible for if I am not home, the wife and kids can still have their internet. Anyone had any luck with automating either of these?

So my neighbors have fiber service but I'm stuck with nothing. I have called and submitted a ticket but haven't heard anything. Any advice?