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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to alchav
Re: Good... It's not the fiber that makes it better.. it's the equipment that drives it and the power put behind it that matters. I can point you to a development in Iowa, Huxcomm, that offers 2 meg internet over Fiber. In that area, MediaCom is kicking their butt left and right.
In this case, is fiber or coax "better"....
They need to get off the wire and talk about themselves. In the end, as others have said, it doesn't matter if the fiber goes all the way to the home or not. It doesn't matter if they're using twisted pair or not. People say DSL is better and it's using older twisted pair over cable's much thicker coax cable. So, in this example, coax is a newer, larger pipe that CAN deliver more.. does this mean that cable should claim victory over DSL? NO! It all matters, in the end, HOW WELL you deliver the service.. not WHAT you deliver it over. | |
| said by fiberguy:It all matters, in the end, HOW WELL you deliver the service.. not WHAT you deliver it over. I don't normally agree with you as I consider it selecting the lesser of two evils when considering between the cable and phone companies, but I do completely agree with the above statement. It's the company and their ability to deliver a stable, price competitive, service that matters most. | |
 alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | reply to fiberguy
said by fiberguy:It's not the fiber that makes it better.. it's the equipment that drives it and the power put behind it that matters. I can point you to a development in Iowa, Huxcomm, that offers 2 meg internet over Fiber. In that area, MediaCom is kicking their butt left and right. In this case, is fiber or coax "better".... They need to get off the wire and talk about themselves. In the end, as others have said, it doesn't matter if the fiber goes all the way to the home or not. It doesn't matter if they're using twisted pair or not. People say DSL is better and it's using older twisted pair over cable's much thicker coax cable. So, in this example, coax is a newer, larger pipe that CAN deliver more.. does this mean that cable should claim victory over DSL? NO! It all matters, in the end, HOW WELL you deliver the service.. not WHAT you deliver it over. So what are you trying to say, that people hang on Words or Perceptions? Of course it takes the electronics behind the infrastructure to make it work better than the other. You talk about twisted pair Copper, yes it's still being used and very efficient, AT&T U-Verse is an example. Is this better than Fiber, no, and AT&T uses some pretty good electronics behind this. The other thing that no one mentions is durability, Fiber the way it is manufactured and in-cased, will last longer than Coax or twisted pair Copper. | |
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