AT&T provides a range of fiber internet options with monthly data usage throttling depending on your location and plan. The sampled fast consumer fiber internet plan is AT&T Fiber with download speeds of 5Gbps and upload speeds of 5Gbps. This plan is very special indeed because it does not have a limit to its speed or the amount of data consumed. Although, the majority of the regions have not had the privilege of accessing the 5Gbps fiber service.
At present, AT&T Fiber offers more affordable plans that come with speed throttling that ranges between 300Mbps and 1Gbps. As mentioned, these plans are unlimited, although there is a heavy data limit of about 4 – 6TB per month. In most cases, you will never get close to those caps even when using your home for residential purposes.
AT&T Fiber Speed Tiers and Limits
- AT&T Fiber 300: Download speed at 300Mbps/ Upload speed at 300Mbps
- 1TB data cap
- AT&T Fiber 500: download speed of 500 Mb/s and the upload speed of 500 Mb/s.
- 1TB data cap
- Overall, AT&T Fiber 1000 offers two service speeds: 1Gbps download and 1Gbps upload.
- 6TB data cap
- AT&T Fiber 5000: download speed of 5000 Mbps & upload speed of 5000 Mbps
- No data cap
The 300Mbps, 500Mbps, and 1Gbps fiber plans do not in fact, officially have a fair usage policy that puts a cap on the amount of data you can use the following month after reaching a specific limit and then throttling your speeds. However, that limit varies between 1TB to 6TB per month which is so much of data.
To put those numbers into perspective
- Thus, 1TB equals to 1,000 GB.
- Some of them could record over 500 hours of high-definition video before reaching 1 TB.
- As much as the internet usage remains high, the average internet user only uses approximately 100gb per month.
Therefore, while AT&T Fiber 300, 500 and 1000 do set limits, they are actually unlimited as people mostly use home internet. One would have to perform some really intensive tasks such as 4K video streaming, Gaming, Running a business to be anywhere near those figures. This is why AT&T can say that these plans are unlimited in the first place while know fully well that restrictions are nevertheless in place.
The main unlimited AT&T fiber Internet service Provider is called AT&T Fiber 5000, but this plan is unlimited in theory only. This is the download and upload plan with speeds up to 5Gbps (5,000Mbps), and it does not have any data limit or reduced speed. However, it is relatively scarce, exclusive mostly to the business community and only a limited number of users in high population density metropolitan cities as an enterprise service. Nevertheless, for end-users in residences that are connected to the 5Gbps fiber, it is as fast as the user can possibly imagine with no restrictions.
The fast maximum speeds and near unlimited data make AT&T fiber internet particularly perfect for cord-cutters streaming lots of video, smart homes with dozens of connected devices, gamers, and SMBs. Fiber is the fastest internet service currently accessible for consumers, which has higher speed than usual cable and DSL.
While fiber internet transmits its crazy fast speeds through a 100% fiber optic cables unlike the use of cables for cable internet. Fiber does not have a limit to the number of connections it can support, meaning that the fibre connections that you are now seeing with 5Gbps are possible. Perhaps we are not yet at the best fiber speeds that is still possible as the underlining technology is still improving.
Therefore, to sum it up – all the AT&T fiber plans have a speed limit known from the name of the service, for example, 300 Mbps or 1 Gbps. The mid tier plans from 300Mbps to 1Gbps can be said to have high data limits that are however theoretical and very enormous, ranging from 1TB to 6 TB per month. But the highest-tier AT&T Fiber 5000 plan actually could have no speed throttle and no monthly data usage allowance if you are able to get this plan. In our view, for the overwhelming majority of residential clients, the fiber 300, 500, and 1000 plans provide more than sufficient speed and come with such enormous data quotas that one can hardly care about the limitations.
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