| reply to The Rocker
Re: harsh said by The Rocker: Also the clam that it is all fiber to the house may be true but once it gets hooked up it reverts back to copper cable. I have FiOs. In a multiple dwelling building (here we call them apartment houses). The fiber comes out of the ground at the front of the building and into a network box. The line for each apartment splits out there and goes ALL FIBER into each unit (apartment). I can literally see the fiber coming out of the ceiling, into a joiner box. Then, another fiber link comes out (the thing is thinner than a really cheap speaker wire - besides the marking printed right on it marking it as fiber, it clearly could not be copper - copper this thin would not service TV/Phone/Internet). This thin fiber goes into the network interface where TV breaks out into a wire cable, Phone into the phone line and Internet is into an Actiontech modem that provides either a network cable or wireless.
My wireless (Connected to a desktopo on the other end of the apartment which is supposed to be 15/5) consistently gets over 18 and over 11. The wired desktop is getting the same exact speeds.
In our multiple dwelling building (apartment house) what it took to get connected was a petition with all residents signing a promise to get minimal one year subscriptions. Within the month, we were wired and connected. |
