tschmidt
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Milford, NH
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to riverrat56
Re: should consider changing from CATV to fiber
While I'm a big fan of fiber to the home the reality is your customer experience has more to do with local service provider then underlying technology.
To answer specific questions:
1) Check with your CATV provider. DOCSIS modems are more sensitive to level then TV. That is why they are connected directly to 1:2 splitter then any TVs after that. If problem is due to low level rather then node congestion have your Cableco check it out.
2) Fiber should be more stable since there is no copper involved. Keep in mind if ISP oversells back haul you may still experience peak time slowdowns.
3) Unless you are running a public server of some sort there is no reason to spend extra for static IP allocation.
/tom |
