This was T-Mobile 5G internet, and they only had one modem available. I never bothered looking for my own 5G modem (assuming T-Mobile would even allow BYOD), because my son was already complaining about his ping. And even then, they would still only assign a single IPv6 instead of the full /64 prefix I get with my current provider.

I already have my own router, but they do NAT from the modem with no way to switch to bridge mode.

I’ve seen fiber for that price, but my house is like 3 miles away from the nearest fiber location (I have a co-worker that lives within that boundary).

I pay $140/mo for ~300 down / 100 up. I found another provider with similar bandwidth for $50/mo, but I self-host a couple things, and they wouldn’t assign me an IPv6 prefix or allow port forwarding. Also, my son complained because his games had 70 ms ping on the less expensive provider.

Edit: I’m in a big city, I think it’s even worse in rural areas.