I've had fiber at three places now and been provided a modem at every one. At least they don't upcharge for it. One of them also gave me a router/WiFi unit when I asked them not to, never billed me for it, and I've had it for like 3 years now gathering dust in case they come at me for it.
I've never been able to afford a nice place and I swear to god they only offer it to nice neighborhoods. My friend two streets over in the nice neighborhood has no trouble getting fiber service though. It's even more infuriating because he pays less for fiber than I do for my shitty connection.
From what I've heard, this is a problem that once again comes down to landlords. I've heard from people that looked into it and found that apartment buildings around them had been hooked up, and it was only their building in the area that had been left out. Turns out some landlords try to profit from this by demanding money from ISPs in order to allow them to hook up units in their buildings. (Like telling Verizon they can wire the building only if they pay the landlord $1k per unit to do so).
This was a few years back, so I don't know if it's still a problem, but it was the source of complaints during the Fios rollout.
:gigachad-hd: Fiber Optic gang.
Also :what-the-hell: a modem with a fan? :whywhywhywhywhy: There are whole ass fanless PCs out there but they can't cool down a modem without a fan?
I've had fiber at three places now and been provided a modem at every one. At least they don't upcharge for it. One of them also gave me a router/WiFi unit when I asked them not to, never billed me for it, and I've had it for like 3 years now gathering dust in case they come at me for it.
I wish I could fucking get fiber.
I've never been able to afford a nice place and I swear to god they only offer it to nice neighborhoods. My friend two streets over in the nice neighborhood has no trouble getting fiber service though. It's even more infuriating because he pays less for fiber than I do for my shitty connection.
From what I've heard, this is a problem that once again comes down to landlords. I've heard from people that looked into it and found that apartment buildings around them had been hooked up, and it was only their building in the area that had been left out. Turns out some landlords try to profit from this by demanding money from ISPs in order to allow them to hook up units in their buildings. (Like telling Verizon they can wire the building only if they pay the landlord $1k per unit to do so).
This was a few years back, so I don't know if it's still a problem, but it was the source of complaints during the Fios rollout.