I was on the fence about whether it should be updated, but 25 down / 3 up really isn't for "advanced" usage. That's really basic these days. So if that's the line, they made the right call.
I'm looking forward to the day they get to their 1000 / 500 goal. Having upload as such a small fraction of the download can be a pain sometimes.
Having said this I wouldn't mind at all having a big fat pipe Internet for next to nothing just like everyone else. I was excited to hear about Google's plans to lay fiber "everywhere." More than a decade later, I'm still waiting in my excited state.
- the telcos pocketed the money and did very very little actual deployment, and the FCC did nothing
- lobbied the FCC to deny Starlink funds when Starlink actually delivered a usable rural service and got them to declare it "not broadband"
At least the FCC hasn't been completely useless in mobile broadband. I'm sure if 5G starts approaching usable competition with Cable/Telcos, the FCC will kill it for them.
I pay for 900 megabits and get 20. Upload, of course.
None of the other plans even offer upload speeds this high - so not only does paying for 900 get you only 20, but to get only 20 you have to pay for 900. That's nuts.
Come to think of it, the asymmetry is probably a way to exploit transit fees.
I do get around 900 megabits of download on real actual workloads like downloading from Steam (over 100 MB/s). I believe there's absolutely no uptime commitment though, and they do commonly shut off my internet access for like 5 minutes at 4am, presumably to install some sort of unwanted update on the router that I don't own, because if I try to install a router I do own, they cut the line after a few days of usage.
in contrast, I get about 24 megabits of real-world upload speed.
That ratio is disgusting. (DL:UL 35+:1)