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Eat Me

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
reply to Dezbend
Re: Will this get me DSL or something else faster?

I sure hope they expand this to NJ.

But I'd rather see something like Verizon's FiOS rather than IPTV delivered over copper.

me1212

join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO
I don't have ether, yet, I just hope embarq or W/E they call it DSL will be here if less then 2yrs, unless they do some sort of uber wireless instead that would b ok 2.

iansltx

join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
reply to Eat Me
Pretty sure CTel is delivering IPTV over their fiber system, which allows for 15/768 speeds last I checked. Not FiOS but decent...except for the upload.


yesbut0909

@centurytel.com
Also offering 20M/3M to fiber customers


Eat Me

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said by iansltx See Profile :

Pretty sure CTel is delivering IPTV over their fiber system, which allows for 15/768 speeds last I checked. Not FiOS but decent...except for the upload.
When I mean fiber, I mean fiber to the home, not a crappy hack like AT&T's U-Verse VDSL which leaves fridge sized boxes in your yard that will explode in the middle of the night.

If they're planning full FTTH, even if it's IPTV, great. I'm on board. Otherwise I'm sticking with the cable company where I can get 30/2 and about 50 HD channels.

iansltx

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I'm talking about FTTH as well. You should know by now that I'm no fan of FTTN

OTOH CTel may not upgrade your telephone lines to fiber right off the bat. As usual, the fiber developments are in greenfield communities, where the marginal cost of deploying fiber over copper is much lower.

I'd check over in the CTel forum for more details on their services. Lower-end stuff is regular ADSL, 10/768 is ADSL2+, 15/768 is fiber. Speeds are conservative given the medium they're pushing the bits over, but hey, if it work it works.

chelpt

join:2008-05-24
La Crosse, WI
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  Yup, it is like a combination of the best things of the FiOS and ATTs Uverse. They get fiber out to where ever they can and then still use the copper when necessary. For my house, they actually upgraded to fiber direct to the home. But it was easy for them to do. Over head wires from the pole are easy to take down.

But I have no Idea what made them decide to do that. Other people in my town didn't get upgrades when there were overhead wires.


Eat Me

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
reply to iansltx
SO what about caps? Do they have caps?

I'm pretty interested since the 100GB cap that SE Cable isn't all that good.

iansltx

join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
No explicit caps...doesn't sound like they have caps overall either.
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