Posted on 10/22/2014 10:35:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce
And maybe a hefty price increase?
I guess I won’t get of rid of the copper line quite yet ;-)
The only problem for me: the provider of DSL will likely want to force a landline on me along with the Internet service. So I must pay $30-$40 per month for a phone I seldom use, plus the Internet fees.
I used to work for our primary regional telco provider doing DSL and small business side networking.(was my first job and it drew me out of school lol)
The biggest limitation for DSL then was distance. The max distance was about 25,000 feet on the cable pair, that was for the lowest speeds, and if the wind blew too hard it could go out. lol You had to get within 15k feet for decent speeds(at that time), and within 5-10k feet for the best speeds.
For this new technology, it looks like even greater speed limitations are in place, which will make it a non-starter for rural areas. Their best bet would be to send their high speed out via some form of wireless, using repeaters. Really, it all comes down to how much money the provider is willing to invest.
The proverbial "last mile".
With this new technology, we could see by 2020 a gigantic leap in DSL speeds--imaging going from 6-8 megabits/second download speeds to 200 megabits/second--a speed that may even be enough to stream H.265 encoded Ultra HD video without stuttering.
We dumped AT&T a couple years ago when they simply wouldn’t keep our ADSL running reliably. Bandwidth regularly dropped to 128 kbps, what I got out of my US Robotics modem 20 years ago. I ripped out the copper pair drop from the pole to the house after AT&T refused to do it because (drum roll!!) I was no longer a customer! I don’t think you could pay me enough to go back to AT&T for ANY flavor of DSL. They lost me as a. Ustomer forever.
That's fine and dandy. Now where are you going to find the server?
In practice, as opposed to theory, the only way to max out a gigabit connection is to be pulling from a bunch of servers at once. E.g., if you're running a spider or something. Or maybe if you control both the server and the client, and you have a big file to transfer. But even then, a connection between server and client is only as fast as its slowest link.
there is such a thing as what they call “dry loop” internet access which is not landline based. I don’t have a landline phone and don’t want to get one. I plan on looking at Earthlink’s version.
I use torrents frequently to DL various linux distros. Something like that would max it out quite easily.
We just switched to FIOS because they raised the price on DSL just as high. So what’s the point?
PFL
Not true.
I have only a data line for which I pay $50 a month.
I’m not required to bundle phone service with my Internet plan.
Good point. Something else to worry the Hollywood studios.
200meg is easily doable with existing DSL under 1000 ft.
> The reasons people want fast broadband are plentiful:
The deep abiding hatred for Comcast where there are no other high speed internet options...
BFL.
Guess I won’t be needing my 300 baud suitcase modem anymore. ..
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