AT&T has a strange idea of what fiber means. In my area, they run fiber to the neighborhood distribution boxes (one is literally 25' from my front door), but copper to the houses, so they max out at 12mbps (they say 14, but it's really 12).
That's exactly what I have today. (Slightly faster, but same deal.) The new "GigaPower" service is fiber directly to your house.
Meanwhile, I ran into some Rice IT guys while getting lunch. I started asking about hooking up a VPN and all that, and they said "oh no, don't get AT&T GigaPower; it's not stable, my neighbor had no service over the weekend, etc.". They instead recommended a third-party commercial provider (PhonoScope) who apparently has right-of-way to string fiber on the poles behind my house and who probably has something to tap into in the big street a block away from my house. Hmm.
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