David803sc
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join:2001-02-22
Charleston, SC
| Daniel Island, SC Fiber To The Home
I am one of those other 833,500 customers served with fiber by a small provider in this case it is »www.hometelco.com/ the service is ok, the internet is 5MB Symmetrical I would love a little more download maybe 10MB down, the phone is ok, for phone and internet with all taxes I pay $103 a month this includes unlimited calling anywhere in the US. You can add TV but their TV service is pretty lacking, for the price I think they have about 6 HD Channels total, I will stick with DISH for HD.
David
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Home Telecom 5Mb Symmetrical Service, DLink DIR-655, 2 Linksys 5 Port Gigabit Switches, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, MAC OS X, MSNTV2, Xbox 360, Vonage Linksys PAP2v2, 2 DISH Network 622's |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | Who needs fiber to the home, fuuuwey this is how i roll...
BOOOOYAAAAA |
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jonnyb
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Haverhill, NH
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jonnyb
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Haverhill, NH | reply to jonnyb
fuuuwey is that even a word you tard, oh wait i posted that. BOOOOYAAAA |
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Matt
Running Free
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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said by David803sc  :I am one of those other 833,500 customers served with fiber by a small provider in this case it is » www.hometelco.com/ the service is ok, the internet is 5MB Symmetrical I would love a little more download maybe 10MB down, the phone is ok, for phone and internet with all taxes I pay $103 a month this includes unlimited calling anywhere in the US. You can add TV but their TV service is pretty lacking, for the price I think they have about 6 HD Channels total, I will stick with DISH for HD. David I am also one of the smaller providers. I can only get up to 30Mbps/5Mbps speeds though. I currently have their 15Mbps/2Mbps package and I'm pretty happy. They cap right at the data rate so I don't see more than 13Mbps/1.4Mbps, but I'm very satisfied.
I posted pictures of the BPON equipment last summer in this thread: »[Fiber Pics] North State Communications Lightstar Pics |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | Matte is there a cap on how much data you can use or is it unlimited |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
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I've got a question for you. Do you really consider 13 /1.4 as fiber? Also, how is 30/5 fiber? It might be fiber light, but certainly isn't fiber in the real definition. Actual fiber, as looked at via European Standards, is symmetrical or at least evenly scaled. To me, 10mbit or higher constitutes fiber. IE 10mbit bidirectional and higher would fit the mold. Anything less would just be sub par. I would consider 30mbit download and 10 mbit upload to be satisfactory. As I said, 1.25MB/S plus upload is a fair amount to give to users. It allows for ample speeds on sending stuff. In this day and age, digital is the mainstream phrase. If you got a 1GB home movie to share from your dvd camcorder, why should it take hours to send. With a 10mbit upload standard as universal, one could share this 1GB in about 15-20 minutes. At current rates, people are lucky to have 60-100KB/S upload and this same file would take HOURS! |
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Matt
Running Free
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Jamestown, NC
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said by jonnyb :Matte is there a cap on how much data you can use or is it unlimited Unlimited. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | reply to jc100
jc i dont have FTTH, i have cable and it is more than enough for me to do what i need to do it is probably enough for most people to do what they need to do. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | reply to Matt
Not bad buddy go nuts with the bit-torrents take advantage of the unlimited service. |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC
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said by jc100 :I've got a question for you. Do you really consider 13 /1.4 as fiber? Also, how is 30/5 fiber? It might be fiber light, but certainly isn't fiber in the real definition. Actual fiber, as looked at via European Standards, is symmetrical or at least evenly scaled. To me, 10mbit or higher constitutes fiber. IE 10mbit bidirectional and higher would fit the mold. Anything less would just be sub par. I would consider 30mbit download and 10 mbit upload to be satisfactory. As I said, 1.25MB/S plus upload is a fair amount to give to users. It allows for ample speeds on sending stuff. In this day and age, digital is the mainstream phrase. If you got a 1GB home movie to share from your dvd camcorder, why should it take hours to send. With a 10mbit upload standard as universal, one could share this 1GB in about 15-20 minutes. At current rates, people are lucky to have 60-100KB/S upload and this same file would take HOURS! I consider it Fiber because the data is delivered to my house via a fiber optic cable, which is then converted to ethernet.
Fiber is not defined by the speed and anyone who defines it that way is being obtuse.
Believe it or not, most of the speed test sites can't max out my connection, down or even UPstream, a small percentage of the time. I have several servers sitting off 100Mbps connections in two different high capacity, high speed data centers, and I've yet to find ANYTHING that can even push more than 70Mbps to me down or accept more than 8Mbps up.
My 1.4Mbps real-world throughput is enough for friends to watch standard def movies from my home network using Orb at 480p quality, my business VoIP connection, and a few computers browsing the web all simultaneously.
While it would be nice to have 10Mbps symmetrical, (I could actually use it for remote admin of my servers) 1.4Mbps works pretty damn well. SO much so that I can't justify the price (double what I currently pay) for the extra 3Mbps up I have available to me. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | See i also have fiber but instead of the fiber terminating at my house like it does for you Matte it terminates at the pole so there isnt much difference from FTTH to cable as a lot of people may think. |
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spewak
Kiss It, Kiss It Real Good
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join:2001-08-07
Elk Grove, CA
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said by jonnyb :fuuuwey is that even a word you tard, oh wait i posted that. BOOOOYAAAA No ftehcc, you were supposed to correct yourself on the spelling of the word. 
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
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Ok, let's look at this from another perspective. For most, cable is plenty, but as things grow in size, will that be the case. Ten years ago, most people thought dialup was great. Now, cable / dsl is the mainstream. Do you want to remain on the same tier ten years down the road. I understand some people simply web browse and email, nothing else. However, you are missing a large sect of the population, which are teenagers and young adults. These people love to share pictures, webcam one another, make videos, etc of their lives. All of which can be considerable in size. Not to mention, some families love sending grandma and grandpa home movies they captured of the kids. I mean I own a mini dvd camcorder myself and and had to upload a 1GB video for some business I helped someone with. This took a LIFETIME. I think about 6 hours to send. Honestly, while I hardly upload, it would be nice to have the potential for it to go fast. Therefore, I am looking at this from a future innovation ideology versus being stuck where we are at now. |
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Matt
Running Free
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Jamestown, NC
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said by jonnyb :See i also have fiber but instead of the fiber terminating at my house like it does for you Matte it terminates at the pole so there isnt much difference from FTTH to cable as a lot of people may think. I agree. And in actuality, BPON, GPON and the HFC cable systems have quite a bit in common, as they are shared at a location much closer to the end-user.
Although the BPON/GPON systems have a much higher bandwidth potential and are generally shared among an order of magnitude less users. |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
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That's a flawed assumption. You are talking about the delivery and I'm referring what users actually receive. From your explanation, if a cable company delivered one High Def station, then it should be able to advertise it broadcasts in HD? After all, in theory it does broadcast in it. It has that single station. The same for ISPS. In theory, a lot of data is passed through fiber versus copper. Still, it doesn't give the ISP a right to claim they are offering fiber connectivity since it has little resemblance to ACTUAL fiber. It's merely cable sent to users in another method. It isn't added speeds. As I said on my other reply, this is a digital age and people want to webcam, remote, share home movies, etc etc. We need to keep up with the pace. Ten years ago everyone had dialup. Would you still say that same standard is efficient for today? It's not WHAT can users do but WHEN will they do it type deal. I am sure few people can max out a 100mbit individually (unless you live in a country like Japan, Sweden, etc), but that's an aside issue. The main point here is users want capacity and ISPS are merely trumpeting their own horns by charging more for less. Right now, we're in a downward slide of usage caps, slow speeds, and excuses on why people can't see any highspeed at all. Yet, ISPS will continue to claim they are giving it all with new marketing campaigns. We now offer Fiber, etc etc without really offering anything different than the next guy. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH
| Let me say this jc i agree with pretty much most of what you said but regardless in a few years mark these words all these companies saying that there service is unlimited will be charging by the byte its a matter of time they do it overseas and they will do it here soon enough and then all the bitching about speed and bandwidth wont be such a big deal especially when you pay for it oh ya and finding a un secure wireless connection good luck everything will be secure. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH | reply to spewak
good point spewak, fuuuwey is spelt fuwey so that idiot spelt it wrong.  |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
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Hi Daniel,
Well the charge by byte model is reflective of where you live. Many countries with expansive fiber networks give an all you can eat model. Korea, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Norway, among many others have 10mbit symmetrical fiber and no data caps. However, places like the UK, countries in Africa, Canada, and many other locales have a limited tiered model. The only reason this exists is because these businesses know users tolerate it. I highly doubt it has anything to do with "finances" other than finding more ways to line their pocket. As I have said, profit is good. However, profit needs to be balanced with feasibility. At least in the U.S., companies are highly subsidized to expand. The same thing happens in the first category where these countries have unlimited fiber. Sadly, the companies here squander much of that money or hoard it claiming it's not ample to meet their needs. All of which, we don't hold them accountable for. Yet, the countries above make sure their citizens get wired. Furthermore, that population argument is a load of crap ISPS toss out. Many of our cities are more dense than those that got fiber in Europe. Simply put, the consumer is the one that needs to do the talking. If people continue to pay and tolerate these caps, then surely we will see more. If people go elsewhere, then ISPS are forced to change their business models and be competitive. It's relative. |
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jonnyb
join:2008-03-15
Haverhill, NH
| i hear ya barken big dog that makes much sense but i dont think there is a prob with my service even if they do cap it i have never met that cap or exceeded the cap and if you are exceeding the cap then maybe the chances are you are up to shaddy business i say maybe now dont get all crazy. "Simply put, the consumer is the one that needs to do the talking. If people continue to pay and tolerate these caps, then surely we will see more. If people go elsewhere..." now all we need to do is apply this thought to the gas companies and we will be all set. |
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