In RTP NC, GFiber's $70 pricing beats equivalent speed plans from the other two symmetric fiber providers in the area, AT&T and Spectrum (if you live on the right streets). It's not _dirt_ cheap, but it's the cheapest we can get.
(Oh, also if you request a /48 IPv6 prefix, you'll get it. Never had that work on AT&T's $90.75-after-fees plan.)
I've got a /48 IPv6 subnet with CenturyLink 1G/1G. It's a 6rd tunnel, but it's provided by the same ISP. Hopefully they'll go native soon, but it may not matter if I switch to Google Fiber.
My 1G/1G CenturyLink plan is $65/mo, which beats Google's $70 plan for the same thing in the same market, but I've had this plan for 5 years and it is no longer available.
It's just a protocol to tunnel IPv6 within IPv4 datagrams. The "RD" stands for "Rapid Deployment" and it was meant to be a temporary solution that would go away when the edge was updated. I'm not sure why it's still around.
The assigned IPs are dynamic, and hosting from a residence is probably against the ToS. I've never checked to see if any ports are blocked, but I know that UDP 51820 (Wireguard) is open.
At least the Vegas place has IPv6 provided by the same ISP. I've got another place in greater Los Angeles with Frontier fiber. It costs more money for half the bandwidth, and they have NO IPv6 support, or any plans for IPv6 support. For that location, I use an HE IPv6 (RFC4312) tunnel, which generally works fine, except many websites such as YouTube require authentication before they provide content. They're probably countering the AI training bots, and have flagged the HE IPv6 blocks.
I've had AT&T 1 Gbps in RTP NC at $70/mo since Jan 2017, with Max thrown into that price for free a few years back. I keep waiting for AT&T to raise my price but apparently it's permanent unless I change or cancel service.
My neighborhood was one of the first in Wake county that AT&T lit up, probably because it's one of the neighborhoods that re-used Bellsouth fiber[1]. It's been reliable service. No trouble with IPv6. I could've done without the AT&T privacy breach though.
Meanwhile Google didn't finally have fiber to my address till last year, many years after I got the free T-shirt[2] from them.
Yeah, my gripe with my snide comment is more about how bandwidth costs should be falling over time in a competitive market, not that 1gig for $70 isn't actually still a good deal for the US.
The real advantage in having Google Fiber move into Vegas (or anywhere else) is they they're creating competition. It's silly how fast broadband prices plummeted here with the 1-2 punch of 2 fiber providers coming in in relatively short order. All of a sudden, whoops, the major providers can profitably provide service at a fraction of the price! Who knew?
If only it covered all of RTP. I've lived in TWO places in Durham where there was Google Fiber across the street from me but I couldn't get it at my address. Where I live currently the people across the street can get Google Fiber or AT&T Fiber and I can only get Spectrum Cable.
(Oh, also if you request a /48 IPv6 prefix, you'll get it. Never had that work on AT&T's $90.75-after-fees plan.)