AT&T fiber vs xfinity

For video it’s either Directv stream or Satellite

Stream is a flat price no contract

Fiber is always going to be a stronger connection if you have many users always online.

Cable shares a connection with your neighbors. Fiber is dedicated to your house.

I have the same dilemma….Xfinity, AT&T, and C-Spire. I have been happy with Xfinity service, so I’ll stay with them until they give me a reason not to.

AT&T Fiber has been solid in my area, however, I personally dislike ATT due to numerous random issues with support/billing over 15 years of cell service/fiber service.

Because of this, I may be swapping to TMobile Home internet 5G. Check out if TMobile works well in your area and that's another alternative. Not great for ping/gaming but just throwing it out there as a potential alternative.
Hell, I think Verizon also has a home internet now too, albeit their 5G network isn't built out as well yet, nationally.

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Cable shares a connection with your neighbors. Fiber is dedicated to your house.

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This is not true. PON does share bandwidth. Not all houses get a dedicated light color. It is shared bandwidth very similar to cable internet.

The only two fiber services I know that you get dedicated speed from your node to your home is Google Fiber and Xfinity's 6Gbps fiber service. Google accomplishes it by overbuilding their neighborhoods so that every house gets its own light color (wavelength) and Xfinity's 6Gbps fiber is a dedicated active ethernet.

Is it common to get bandwidth issues with at&t fiber? No. Are there areas where at&t fiber is over subscribed and having peak-time bandwidth issues? yes. No reason not to try at&t fiber if interested since there is no contract.

EDIT: I have both Xfinity and At&t. I like both services. There is no reason to go above the at&t 300/300 plan if you try it.

DirecTV stream streams your locals. No antenna is used.

Slingtv can integrate antenna signals into it's guide.

The nature of fiber vs. Coax is key here. Fiber is like HDMI; it's on, or it's not. Coax is particularly hindered by water intrusion into the cable which can cause weird things to happen that are hard to troubleshoot. Fiber works, or it doesn't.

I get 1TB down for ~70 a month before taxes with AT&T (effective speed around 550-700 Mbps). I turned off the Wifi on the shitty bridge they gave me almost a decade ago, and have 802.11ax throughout the whole house (5000sq feet) off of a single TPLink router. Be aware, if you use Wifi based off of a modem that is provided for you, it is LEAGUES slower than anything you could buy at BestBuy five years ago. Fix that problem first.


In seven years in the same house, Comcast/Xfinity went down multiple times in a 7-8 month period, even after construction was done in my section of the hood. AT&T has gone down twice in the rest of the six years; one time because a backhoe ran into the entire neighborhoods distribution point (which took down Comcast too) for about 18 hours. Second time was the great Houston freeze, but that was more because we were without power for so long.

XFinity is also (at least in my area) far more expensive than AT&T (including speed differentials, equipment rental fees, which particularly made me hate Comcast).

AT&T did do weird things like wire up a battery backup to my DMARC without an actual battery in it. Solved with a CyberPower backup that keeps the DMARC up for almost a day for $40.