Posted on 05/26/2016 4:27:33 PM PDT by Java4Jay
That's the promise of G.Fast. It's a new technology that can deliver blazing fast internet over the wires (phone lines) you already have in your home. For many, it will be the first time they'll have more than one choice for broadband.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
sign me up
Isn’t “broadband” a sexist term? (humor)
Expect a hundred fold increase in ads and pop-ups at least.
I’m all for better packet flow.
Can The Burn make it FREE?
Apparently p0wrn has funded the ‘nets...
Yep. Me too. My sole choice out in the country is Verizon wireless. For this I’d have the old copper line hooked back up to the cabin so fast it would make the tech’s head spin.
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“the boxes on the street that need to be installed to power G.Fast cost about $70,000. “
I don’t understand- that can’t be per house
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“Fast” only works up to a point for home use.
My cable went from 20 to 50 Mpbs a couple of years ago. For most things, that is hardly noticeable. A movie or TV show stream will only download and play at a certain speed, regardless of how much ‘broadband’ one has.
Cumbersome webpages still load slow. One of the worst culprits is Amazon.com. It loads dozens of things and takes a minute or two to finish all of them, even at 50 Mbps.
Many webpages I can click on load almost instantly. So, how much faster is ‘fast’?
It is a selling point. A bigger factor is the lag/latency and that is the responsibility/fault of the provider, be it cable or phone.
For many, it will be the first time they’ll have more than one choice for broadband.
I just like to have 1 choice for broadband.
Telephone companies have local “offices”, which in the old days had a human switchboard operator, that have the automatic switch gear for you local telephone system. My guess each office will have to have one of these boxes.
“Bringing fiber from the street to just to one home can cost $100,000, according to Sckipio.
By comparison, the boxes on the street that need to be installed to power G.Fast cost about $70,000.”
This sort of thing makes you wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article. I suspect there were supposed to be a couple of decimal points in those numbers.
While it sounds like a great advancement, there is no way $70K per household in capital costs would ever be repaid. You could install gigabit wireless in a neighborhood for $200 per household capital cost. One router on every telephone pole or light pole and you would have a similar speed WAN.
At 5 Mbs, I can watch streaming videos on my desktop PC without interruption.
You don’t need the fastest speed to access Internet content.
Anything to defeat Comcast and their domination through bribes to politicians.
Try weather.com! Ridiculously slow.
What can G.Fast do that my current DSL can’t do?
At least you HAVE Comcast cable, you should try DirecTV. Money grubbing company if their ever was one.
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