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Good, because this blatant false advertising pissed me off. Straight up taking advantage of everyone that isn't in the tech world by making them think it's two times faster than 5G.
Yeah, it was such a blatant attempt to confuse customers that I'm surprised it took this long to make them stop. I wish their competitors had the balls to get aggressive with it and run commercials that said (all factual by the way) "Xfinity 10G has a $1,000 installation and activation fee, costs $300 a month, and requires you leasing a special modem from them for $20 a month that you can only use at home and nowhere else."
Also, AFAIK it's wireless, using their shitty cell network. It's to compete with Verizon's wireless FiOS which can actually do like 1.5 Gbps (if you're close to the tower/receiver).
For the briefest of moments, I got fucking jazzed that I might be able to get a 10Gbps connection at my home. Those hopes were quickly dashed when I looked it up and discovered that it was nothing more than a marketing term promising some unnamed 'faster speed' at some unknown point in the future.
Yep their ”10G” is "up to 1Gbps", so 100 MB/sec at the best. I did the same thing.