insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| No capper should get government money.
But more importantly government money should only be spend on installing fiber to the home. Nothing else is worth the costs. Also satellite isn't even broadband. A one second delay + caps make it useless for anything but web surfing without videos. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I agree 100% NO ISP with a cap should be given any of our money, if they ever do get a cap they MUST pay it ALL back. And if we should be investing in anything fiber is the way to go. |
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Luwigie
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East Lansing, MI
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Fiber is probably the preferred long term goal...But other technologies that can be deployed faster and more cost efficiently would be welcome by all the have nots as well. I don't think fiber should necessarily be the only technology to get a nod.
As for capping there should be stipulations for how ridiculously companies can "manage" their networks. |
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tubbynet
reminds me of the danse russe
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Chandler, AZ
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the reason that everyone is looking to fiber as a panacea is simply because it has been in research and development for so long due to its use as a lan media. don't be so quick to count out the coaxial cable as a viable medium. its just that the research needs to follow. docsis 3 is proving to be a very quick way to upgrade speeds using existing infrastructure and modest upgrade fees.
what tends to be forgotten in all of this "fiber talk" is that several muni-ftth deployments have already occured, but are much less stellar (in terms of speed) than the recent ones in louisiana. everyone wants the symmetric 100meg speeds, but fails to realize the cost involved in such a deployment. isps/carriers should be interested in trying to future-proof their plant as best as possible, something that is done inherently with fiber. however, much of the fiber to the node used by the msos is already proofed and as technologies are being developed by motorola and cisco, they can be implemented in the plant and provide for customer expansion. i think the biggest issue lies in the fact that the big push for r&d hasn't come down the pipe until recently. design can only work so fast, and as a result we are seeing pre-standard and partially working bonding on the upstream. now that the push is there, i can safely say that the design should come faster and harder. lets not count out the future of coax.
the issue comes with the isps and not with the media being used.
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I know coax is still ok, but in time fiber will be the only thing there is(I think). So why not do it right the first time? |
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tubbynet
reminds me of the danse russe
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| said by me1212  :I know coax is still ok, but in time fiber will be the only thing there is(I think). So why not do it right the first time? no, in your opinion fiber is the only solution. you are completely unaware of what coax can do. again, you have totally skimmed my post. coax has *a lot* of life left, especially if it is pushed to the 2ghz spectrum.
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