Yes, D-Link media converter. You know the little grey box with a wall
wart. It's usually just thrown on a shelf in the customers broom
closet. I couldn't believe it was an AT&T connection either when I saw
it. But AT&T had used our multi-strand from the telco room to the
customer suite, and pinched our fiber while they were plugging in
theirs, so I was there troubleshooting why the internet was down. Then
the customer cancelled a week later because AT&T was so much cheaper.
On 12/11/2025 1:43 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I'm sorry.....did you say "D-Link Media Converter"?
I remember years ago joking that Ubiquiti wasn't "carrier grade"
because you'd never see an Air Grid at an AT&T wireless site. Maybe
carrier grade is a sliding scale.
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*From:* AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Nate Burke
<[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, December 8, 2025 11:32 PM
*To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] price war
We've been fighting a fiber price war for a while. Around us, in most
AT&T Lit buildings, at&t is selling 1G business service for <$50.
They have a Cienna switch in the Telco room fed with 1-4 1G fibers,
and a plain D-Link Media Converter in the customer suite. So not
enterprise level, but it's still cheap, and the Small Office guy is
going to get that because it's cheap and it's fiber. They probably
throw in a free cellphone too.
On 12/8/2025 10:05 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I lost a customer today to $30 AT&T 5G Home Internet. Starlink has
100 Mbps at $40 with $0 equipment, and that is without competition
yet from Amazon Leo.
All the companies looking to deploy BEAD fiber, I’m guessing they are
counting on around $55 for their base tier, and something like 80%
take rate. But it looks like we are already into a price war. Are
they going to be disappointed at the revenue?
We could say the price war will end and prices will rise, but how
will that happen unless some of the competitors drop out or
consolidate? In the case of the big 3 mobile carriers, that’s not
going to happen (although DISH is probably a goner). They could
become less aggressive about FWA pricing though if they use up all
their excess 5G capacity and don’t get more spectrum. Yeah, right.
Convince me I’m wrong.
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