AT&T Fiber
Shares rank 5 of 12 internet service providers by recommenders
Recommended for fast, symmetric fiber speeds that hold up at any hour, with the most common caveat being brief daily outages.
Recommended for fast, symmetric fiber speeds that hold up at any hour, with the most common caveat being brief daily outages.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 7
- approval share
- 56%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast symmetric speeds both directions
“I pretty much always get at least 4600Mbit/s both directions over AT&T, and generally cap it out.”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home” “Uplink bandwidth is basically guaranteed never to be an issue.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “There's still no point in gigabit broadband” “Both fast and reasonably (for the US) priced.”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth” Steady speed at any hour
“I pretty much always get at least 4600Mbit/s both directions over AT&T, and generally cap it out.”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home” “it didn't slow down no matter what time of day”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't” Worth the money for heavy use
“so it's so worth every penny between streaming, gaming, and personal projects”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026” “Both fast and reasonably (for the US) priced.”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth” Reliable for years of use
“99% of the time it's fantastic, but there are several instances of 30-60 second downtime a day”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Starlink Mini as a Failover” “It's worked for me for years”
Comment from 23 Nov 2025 in “I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Marketing emails and device tracking
“they kept sending me "transactional emails" with the last 3/4 of the message body being marketing copy”
Comment from 4 Jun 2026 in “The desperation of NYTimes” “ATT fiber is proud to advertise to you that it knows about each of your devices”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)” Disconnects and caps without notice
“ATT once told me if I don't pay for their TV service then my home gigabit fiber would have a 1TB cap.”
Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI” “No warnings or letters. Just a disconnect.”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “The Kids' Guide to Piracy”
Other internet service providers people recommend
The four most recommended other internet service providers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlink | 547 | 353 | 61% | 13 | 2 yrs12 owners | — |
| Comcast internet | 19 | 72 | 21% | 11 | 15 yrs4 owners | — |
| Google Fiber | 18 | 12 | 60% | 6 | — | — |
| Andrews & Arnold | 10 | 3 | 77% | 6 | — | Approved |
| AT&T FiberThis page | 9 | 7 | 56% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
All 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“AT&T being the same shitbags they've always been”
“so it's so worth every penny between streaming, gaming, and personal projects”
“No warnings or letters. Just a disconnect.”
“Both fast and reasonably (for the US) priced.”
“Uplink bandwidth is basically guaranteed never to be an issue.”
“they kept sending me "transactional emails" with the last 3/4 of the message body being marketing copy”
“I pretty much always get at least 4600Mbit/s both directions over AT&T, and generally cap it out.”
“it didn't slow down no matter what time of day”
“99% of the time it's fantastic, but there are several instances of 30-60 second downtime a day”
“Currently on AT&T because they do FTTP while GFiber is microwave backhaul.”
“ATT once told me if I don't pay for their TV service then my home gigabit fiber would have a 1TB cap.”
“ATT fiber is proud to advertise to you that it knows about each of your devices”
“apparently this is a lost art over at at&t as well”
“AT&T is allergic to capex and even if they changed their mind recently they waited an unforgivably long time (20 years!) to start.”
“It's worked for me for years”
“I can only download stuff about 8 MB/s from most places.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.