Sonic Fiber in Castro Valley?

[klui]

Sonic came by 2 days before the installation to attach the drop to the house. The emails noted that subscribers don't have to be home for this event to occur nor did it provide a date. The process took 15 minutes which included checking for light attenuation.

Yesterday a Phase 3 Fiber bucket truck did something on the poles. They probably attached fiber service/distribution terminals for today's fiber drop. The installer terminated the tip with a splice-on connector (SC/APC (green)). The splice is temporary as the installer will remove it before fishing the drop into the house.

I asked them if I have the option of using an ONT over a combined ONT/gateway. The installer said "yes," but I asked for the entire 300-foot allocated drop so I have the option to move it to my network closet in the future. I calculated ~100 feet of slack as shown in one of the attached pictures below.

[werther41]

just got Sonic Fiber installed today, live near Lake Chabot Rd/Sydney Way.

so far I can only got 100-200 Mbps (U/D). I have TP-link M4R routers. The guy who installed the service show me 1gbps on his laptop. I was told some adaptor is needed to support the 10gbps.

Nice, mine is coming soon to install. Regarding your wifi/router/mesh, you need a newer system that has 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports (at least 1) to take advantage of the speed. Your system has a 1 gbps ports.

My previous TP-Link Deco M4 router eventually was able to get up to 300-400 Mbps.

I recently replaced it with Deco XE75 Pro router with 2.5Gbps WAN port. The speed is doubled now, it can reach 700-800 Mbps. Is that reasonable? I thought I can get somewhere at least over 1Gbps.

[smbrannon]

My previous TP-Link Deco M4 router eventually was able to get up to 300-400 Mbps.

I recently replaced it with Deco XE75 Pro router with 2.5Gbps WAN port. The speed is doubled now, it can reach 700-800 Mbps. Is that reasonable? I thought I can get somewhere at least over 1Gbps.

You need a router with at least two 10Gb ports on it, and a wired 10Gb or WiFi 7 connection between your machine and the router. Else, you aren't going to be getting anything near 10Gb. In other words, almost everyone will need to upgrade their wired and wireless infrastructure to take full advantage of Sonic's 10Gb fibre.

[werther41]

My previous TP-Link Deco M4 router eventually was able to get up to 300-400 Mbps.

I recently replaced it with Deco XE75 Pro router with 2.5Gbps WAN port. The speed is doubled now, it can reach 700-800 Mbps. Is that reasonable? I thought I can get somewhere at least over 1Gbps.

You need a router with at least two 10Gb ports on it, and a wired 10Gb or WiFi 7 connection between your machine and the router. Else, you aren't going to be getting anything near 10Gb. In other words, almost everyone will need to upgrade their wired and wireless infrastructure to take full advantage of Sonic's 10GB fibre.

eventually I was able to get closed to 2.5Gbps speed with wired connections to the new router. I'm pretty happy with the this result for now as I currently don't have the budget for 10Gb port and wifi 7 router, nor do I have the use case at home.

I think the bottleneck earlier was the 2022 MacBook that I have doesn't support Wifi 6E 6Ghz.

Server: Sonic.net, Inc. - Santa Rosa, CA (id: 62981)
ISP: Sonic.net, LLC
Idle Latency: 2.79 ms (jitter: 0.15ms, low: 2.65ms, high: 2.91ms)
Download: 2322.96 Mbps (data used: 1.1 GB)
19.21 ms (jitter: 7.14ms, low: 2.51ms, high: 234.90ms)
Upload: 2262.85 Mbps (data used: 1.5 GB)
2.52 ms (jitter: 7.18ms, low: 2.28ms, high: 336.09ms)
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/17c2 ... 505dea1739

[goddijns]

So... do we know when Sonic Fiber will actually be available around Marshall Elementary?

I've seen Sonic installer trucks drive around Forest Ave almost daily in last weeks. Yet, when I now order Sonic Fiber it states I'm eligible, but after ordering it is still in Pre-Construction phase

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Does anyone have an ETA on when it will actually be available? @dane ?

[klui]

I'm by Marshall and we have had our new service since early November.

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[goddijns]

Thanks, @klui

Great post with informative details. Hoping they'll feed the fiber line to the incoming network box as well, as i would like to plug fiber straight from ONT into my Unifi gateway to get the 10Gbps connection. At least, that is assuming that the Sonic ONT still has built-in modem, as I read somewhere. But would like to have it next to my network-/server rack as well

Hoping to get an update from @dane or someone at Sonic soon with regards to timeline. But happy to hear your experience has been good so far.

[klui]

I've been a Sonic customer since 2011 and have been very happy with their service.

You won't be able to connect your equipment using fiber. The supplied ONT only exposes 10 Gb through a copper RJ45 jack. Adtran does have an ONT that does it but it is an ONT SFP+ module. Someone here asked about the possibility of using that but my guess is it requires configuration on the router/firewall and not something Sonic wants to support.

If in the future Adtran makes an ONT that has a standard downstream ethernet SFP+ that would be easier to deploy.