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- Plan options:
- 300Mbps speed $55/month
- 500Mbps speed $65/month
- Up to 1GIG speed $80/month
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- Apply code XTRA100 during checkout
- Complete your transaction
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AT&T INTERNET
Internet 100
Speeds up to 100Mbps
Order today and stream with confidence.
Internet 100
Speeds up to 100Mbps
$55/mo.
for 12 mos., plus taxes
Price after $5/mo. AutoPay and paperless billing discount (within 2 bills). Monthly State Cost Recovery Charge in TX, OH, & NV applies. One-time install chrg. may apply. See offer details
Excellent for binge streaming on multiple devices, multi-player gaming, working from home, and sharing large files.
No annual contract, no data caps, and no equipment fees.
AT&T All-Fi™, a fast Wi-Fi experience for your devices, also included
AT&T does not charge a fee anymore for equipment. Depending on which fiber you order will determine the equipment that they install at your location. In rare cases, where there is already fiber to the premises, AT&T will allow self-installation.
In most cases, plan to have a tech come and do an onsite installation. In my experience, tech are only normal people, tend to like their job, while they are not passionate about it. They get frustrated at how massive AT&T is and must face the bureaucracy of such a large company in their own way. They have red lines they can't cross, but if you treat them friendly, with respect, they tend to be flexible within reason. Ask the tech if you should call them directly if you have issues in the first 30 days. Most will give you their personal call number. It helps them with their performance evaluation because installing callbacks in the first 30 days counts hard against them. Asking for this will put them a little at ease if you also ask them to place the equipment or fiber run in a place that requires a little more work.
In that regard, they are somewhat limited to the ground floor and rooms with outside walls. If they can't do what you ask, be kind. They are just trying to get it done and get home to their family. They are just a small cog and can ground up in AT&T was easy as you can. In my installation, I predrilled where I wanted my fiber run. This made the tech more accommodating for the installation, which might have been considered non-standard. Anything past the NID (Network interface device demarcation) is customer supported but the tech can't close the install until they verify light signal levels at the NID and verify you have service by checking Wifi internet in the home. They are not allowed to cheat on this because they have to submit geo tagged photos of the Fiber network terminal showing power and data lights working with no alarms. They have another app that will measure wifi speed, is geolocated and matched to the residential gateway name installed. So, at least at initial setup, you will have to take what allows them proof of a working install so they can close the install. (Note, I don't know if senior techs have to prove their work, but some techs have to prove working installs to the backend)
Now, I mention all of that because any ideas about what you want to do with your service will have to wait until after the installation. AT&T officially does not allow user equipment directly on their network. While yes, anything after the NID is yours, the way it works restricts what you can do. It will require AT&T's residential gateway and ONT (device) connection. While their gateways do have passthrough modes and there are a few workarounds that AT&T currently have not 'fixed' if you want something more flexible.
There is no modem involved, but the term can be used, and people understand it's the basic network interface. Fiber to the home (FTTH) uses an optical network terminal (ONT) or optical network unit (ONU) on the home side. This 'translates' optical data into electrical data. The terms ONT or ONU are interchangeable in this context. AT&T (has) is moving away from outside ONTs at the NID, so expect this equipment to be inside your home.
XGS-PON (2G or 5G) currently seems to be a BGW-320 gateway. This is the AT&T supplied router that provides Wifi services, and has a few Ethernet ports, one being 2.5Gbps standard, also. Called the residential gateway, RG or RGW. The BGW-320 has a SFP (small form-factor pluggable transceiver) module slot that AT&T uses for the ONT. This means that fiber runs to the RG's inserted ONT and it makes it all one device for practical purposes. So far, there is not a (publicly)widely known bypass method. From a technical standpoint, AT&T uses 802.1X authentication to authorize access to their fiber network and this all-in-one gateway provides that. That is, your internet connection port will not turn on until AT&T can prove there is an 802.1X authenticated device on your network. They use the residential gateway they supply for this function. It does have a network passthrough mode to the customer's equipment (you can get access to your public IP) but as they deploy it, it must be in the loop and is not true bridging.
Now, if you are on GPON 1Gbps fiber, things can be different. In many cases, AT&T installed both an external ONT (now inside the home as I mention) and a BGW-210 residential gateway. (Note, some customers have received a BGW-320 with a different GPON ONT module in the SFP slot). In this case, the ONT provides access to AT&T fiberoptic network via its own Ethernet delivery port (1Gbps). The BGW-210 is connected to this ONT output via a Cat5e/6 cable and provides the same functions as the BGW-320, minus the faster ethernet. (I think Wifi is different too).
But in this case, being two separate devices (The BGW-320/ONT are two separate devices, but physically mated internally), people have developed a couple of work arounds. In each case, the physical ONT remains, but the BGW-210 no longer has all the network traffic passing through it. In two cases, it still needs to be physically attached for authentication to AT&T network. They place the BGW-210 on a dumb switch, with also their router and the ONT. The BGW-210 provides its authentication, they unplug it from the switch, plug in their own router with the same hardware (MAC) address as the gateway and the ONT never losing its connection, does not ask the equipment to verify again. (Until there is a power loss or other major networking event, then one plugs in the residential gateway again).
Another method is called EAP proxy. The BGW-210 remains on the network, but not in line with the data flow. Only the authentication request is passed to it for an answer, and that answer is passed on back to AT&T via the connection to the ONT.
Since the 802.1X/Extensible Authentication Protocol is a standard, there is a method where one 'roots' the BGW-210 to take from it the private 'hidden' key it knows to get into AT&T's network. Using this certificate, and the RG's hardware address, another device can answer the security 'question' that AT&T asks for access to its network. So, the original gateway is hacked, keys stolen, and the customer device answers the questions to get access to the network. This only leaves the ONT needed (and the person's own router) for access to the network. The ONT does act like a modem, so it generally does not restrict or interfere in the connection. AT&T does use something called 802.1P quality of service tagging on the packets. Some equipment does not know how to handle this because they use a reserved VLAN id of 0. Nevertheless, this is considered a true bypass. Since there is no longer equipment cost, this is mostly used because one wants a purer connection to the internet. (Note, the certificate keys can come from older gateways too, such as the Pace 5268. They are also sold on eBay---hardware and the keys--)
Finally, some people have replaced the ONT by cloning their own supplied ONT with the identity of the AT&T (Nokia) one. I have verified the other methods are working regarding the gateway, I have not with the ONT.
or i can look into Sonic internet which uses ATT fiber i believe
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To quote AT&T:
When I first got mine in late 2019, it was $70 after $30 discount offer with 1-yr contract. Then, $50 after $20 discount the second year and went back to $70 without any discount on my third year anniversary. Now, it's $80 without HBO Max. The lower tiers do not have data cap anymore tho.
It definitely doesn't hurt to try, but highly YMMV. I haven't been able to get on a promo since late last year.
Very lucky you! Is HBO Max included in your previous/current plan?
I am being charged installation fee of $99.
Thanks
I am being charged installation fee of $99.
Thanks
$400 in att gift cards
$75 chase offer on my chase freedom card
$150 top cashback reward,
$99 installation waived
Paying off the ETF from my current internet provider
Overall this was an insane deal IMO. The top cashback may not work because i am stacking so may coupons/offers but even without it i highly recommend this deal.
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