Bell announced on Wednesday the launch of 3 Gbps internet speeds for its pure fibre internet service, now the fastest offering available in Canada.
The company says its pure fibre offering has 3 Gbps download and upload speeds, saying it is “three times faster than cable.”
“I’m so proud that Bell is once again leading the way in delivering faster Internet speeds for our customers. With total speeds three times faster than cable, our customers can now get download speeds of 3 gigabits per second and upload speeds of 3 gigabits per second. We look forward to continuing to deliver the speed and reliability that our customers need so that they can do what they need to do online even faster,” said Blaik Kirby, Group President, Consumer and Small and Medium Business, in a statement to iPhone in Canada.
The launch of Gigabit Fibe 3.0 is available now in “most areas of Toronto”, says Bell. Some iPhone in Canada readers in Mirabel, Quebec, are seeing Gigabit Fibe 3.0 available, so check your area.
Packages start at $149.95 per month with included modem rental (Home Hub 4000 with Wi-Fi 6) and unlimited monthly usage, plus a $100 Visa prepaid card for those ordering online.
Gigabit Fibe 1.5 is priced at $134.95 per month and Gigabit Fibe at $124.95 per month.
Bell says its 3 Gbps internet “will soon roll out in more regions across the country.”
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but only DSL 25Mbps at 85$ is offered in my area….
but only DSL 25Mbps at 85$ is offered in my area….
Funny. I live 1 minute from the 401 and a 20-25 min drive to Union Station. Bell can’t offer me anything over 50 Mbps and they want almost $90. Meanwhile Rogers offered me over 500 Mbps and TV for $80
Funny. I live 1 minute from the 401 and a 20-25 min drive to Union Station. Bell can’t offer me anything over 50 Mbps and they want almost $90. Meanwhile Rogers offered me over 500 Mbps and TV for $80
On 1.5 right now. Got a bill credit for the difference to try the new 3 gigabit for the month. My work servers may not even accept the 3 gig upload speed.
The difference for me is $15 a month- but if I can’t use it for my work, I won’t keep it beyond the month. Did a review on my YouTube channel of 1.5/940 (multiple videos actually) compared to Rogers. Won’t spam it here- but I’ll probably review the 3 gig. Finally, true symmetrical speed on the higher end. But let’s be real, 99% of residential customers don’t need this or even the 1.5 gigabit. Content creators will love it though.
How do you connect your computer to take advantage of the >1gbps? Do you have 10gb Ethernet on your comp? Do you plug directly into your computer, or do you have a 10gbe switch? Not attacking, genuinely curious.
I replied but I also put a YouTube link so I think it got trapped as spam. I did the setup with an AX89X – it works great with my on-board 10GbE.
If you want to see the setup, just search ‘AX89X Bell Fibe’ on YouTube – it’s the first result. That’s my video. Hope this helps someone who doesn’t want to go Ubiquiti (yet anyway). It works very well- I may eventually upgrade to better gear but this works for now. Also, I didn’t take your comment as an attack, I get asked all the time 😊
oh ok thanks. Yes I did watch your video, thanks for sharing. So you used the single 10gbe ethernet port of that ASUS router to plug into your bell hardware, and then used an SFP to 10gbe adapter to plug 10gbe ethernet into you computer? Is that right? In the video I noticed you were doing it on a mac. So did you use a thunderbolt to 10gbe adapter/box or what? Or you have a mac mini or mac pro or 2020 iMac?
Soooooo it’s actually a Hackintosh 🤣
The board I built the machine with is an ASUS X299 Sage/10G with dual 10GbE ports & a single gigabit port. I had to install a driver for the dual 10GbE but it works lol
And yes, that wiring is correct. Super easy, just a couple of changes in the ASUS router but it worked immediately.
Also, appreciate you watching! I’m a new channel and just started YouTube a few months back (I’m an experienced video editor) and I love knowing that the proper audience is seeing it.
Ohhhh nice, I see. Hackintosh, that makes sense. Good for you on starting the channel. Keep it up!
Regarding the ISP hardware, shaw at least recently started providing a new gateway with one 2.5gbe port at least. So it’s improving, slowly. But with just one port, unless you only have one hardwired device, you have to get a super expensive 10gbe switch.
Hopefully ISPs will provide more ports, or 10gbe switches will go down in price. Besides your main comp, are all your other devices on wifi? Or do you plug the other Ethernet of your comp into a regular 1gbe switch?
I have a 50/50 mix of hard wired and wireless devices. The reason I mention the ASUS router is because I paid around $520 CAD last May (it’s almost $800 now on Amazon!!!????)
So I have the wifi disabled on the Bell equipment (except the one for that runs wireless TV that you can’t disable, or even see on the wifi listing) so I use the ASUS to do all the routing.
The router has 8 gigabit LAN and 2 10GbE ports. Also a separate gigabit WAN port. But luckily you can designate any of the 10 GbE as a WAN port. I also have 2 gigabit switches attached at different parts of the house to add more ports to certain equipment (smart TV/ home audio receiver/ Xbox One etc)
How much of your 1.5gbps do you actually get? When I was on bell I was only getting about 55-60% of my speeds.
I can max it out with ease using the 10GbE card in my machine with the Asus AX89X. Did you use a 2.5 GbE or 10GbE card or a standard 1 gigabit network card?
When I switched to Cogeco I’m now getting 950mbps out of my 1gig. PC have come stock with 10gb Ethernet since 2002..
Sorry that’s incorrect. PCs have come with stock 1 gig Ethernet since 2002. 2.5 gigabit is only now becoming fairly common on motherboards, and most 10GbE is usually only on-board with speciality workstation boards.
When you were on Bell, what was the highest speed you could hit (in megabits) ..?
No idea where you’re getting the idea that PCs have come stock with 10gbe. Hardly any PCs come with 10gbe. If you have a tower you can at least purchase a 10gbe card separately, but the majority of people are on laptops so this is not possible. Also, 10gbe switches are prohibitively expensive, usually in the thousands of dollars. You seem to have your numbers mixed up a bit.
Exactly! The only way to get 10GbE on a laptop at the moment that I’m aware of is via Thunderbolt – but those adapters are wildly expensive for what they are. And if your laptop doesn’t support Thunderbolt, there goes that plan.
Yup I got some numbers mixed up, Thanks for the correction.
That’s nice that Bell and Rogers at least have hardware with >1 gbps ports available. Here in BC, Shaw charges you for 1.5 gbps but then gives you hardware with only 1gbe ports. It’s basically a sham. But they claim that it still counts, because technically you can get 1.5 gbit if you simultaneously max out the 1gbps ethernet port AND have wifi going near max at the same time. Ridiculous.
That was the situation here as well with Bell’s HomeHub 3000. The new modem was released last year with a 10GbE port allowing us to go beyond gigabit. Before that, people were pulling the SFP out and putting it in their own enterprise-grade switches and tagging VLANs and logging in via PPPoE (a lot still are) – so it was nice for Bell to figure out a solution (it’s far from perfect, but a step in the right direction)
Nobody cares about B(H)ell. And who needs more than 30-50mbits?
50mbps is equivalent to dial up in 2022
For vast majority even 30mbps is way too much 😄
You must be watching YouTube vids at only 480p if you think 30mbps is too much.
1080p and 4k with no issues !!
You may not have issues, but there are times that not having as much headroom will make the videos buffer (high traffic times for example)
There’s nothing wrong with having any speed tier, as long as it works for you and it’s your choice. Some put a higher value on ISP speed (outside of needing it for work)
Most of the time it isn’t an issue, but B(H)ell has the nerve to only offer 5mbps plans to certain suburban addresses and advertise it as “reliable internet wth fast and powerful home wifi”.
Yeah, up until last year I was offered the same plan and laughed at it too. Luckily, they seem to be prioritizing the fibre roll out to areas that can only get 5mbit. It’s a crazy invasive job, after seeing them spend last summer doing it, I have a lot of respect for what goes into it.
Sadly, coax is just unreliable and not good for weather conditions, even when buried underground. Hopefully the majority of the country can get access to fibre to the home from whichever providers roll it out to their area. I was on gigabit with Rogers and switched back in September and will never ever go back to a coaxial based service.
I’ve had to say this everywhere lol …. some of us need to upload work at fast speeds as we’re paid per project (like in my case). Content creators will benefit from this immensely (YouTubers for example)
I’m paid per video project. If each video project is 40-50 gigs, this is a game changer for someone like me.
Just because you don’t see the need doesn’t equate to it being unneccesary.
Valid reason but you need faster upload speed in this case! And you’re not the vast majority.
There are tons of reasons. You can’t even stream two 4K streams at once at 30mbps. So anyone who has a family, many times 2 or more people will be wanting to watch different content at the same time. Furthermore, macOS updates are over 10 gigs, many steam and ps4/5 or xbox games are 60 to 100 gigs or more. This is like torture downloading, even on my 150 mbps connection. Finally, many people are using Zoom and its analogs, whether for keeping in touch with friends, work etc. If you are on a zoom call on a 30 mbps connection that is fine, but if even one other thing happens on your network, such as devices start uploading their backups, software or app updates are downloading etc, you Zoom call is going to completely tank and get laggy, buffer etc. Even my parents who are in their 70s and very computer illiterate, there are many occasions where say my mum is on a zoom call while my dad is streaming 4K netflix etc. This just wouldn’t be feasible on a 30-50 mbps connection. Also, those 30-50 mbps connections often have abysmal upload speeds, like 5 mbps or even as little as 1.5. This is just criminal and makes even basic tasks a crappy experience. And we haven’t even talked yet about how popular online backup services are such as BackBlaze et al.
It sounds like maybe you live alone and the only thing you do is browse webpages. I guess in that instance 30-50 would be sufficient. But for most families and anyone who is even an intermediate level user, 30-50 mbps is very paltry and would cause a lot of hiccups.
That’s another edge case! How often you’ll download MacOS updates? 10 gigs once per year!! And usually during the day (assuming you and your wife are working from home) how often your zoom calls will overlap? Even if they do, 30-50Mbps if way too much. Also the kids who’s playing PS4/5 are at school during your working hours!
For online backup only the initial upload takes a lot of time, but for that you need UPLOAD not download.
I had a 30/10 Mbps (Now I have 100/30Mbps because I need upload) for a very long time and for the last 2 years I didn’t have any issues with video calls and kids watching Netflix.
Most of my friends (some of them with 3 kids) have 30-50 Mbps and nobody complains about the bandwidth.
So are they going to run the fibre line into my house? If not then it’s still coax cable…