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.
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My motherinlaw had it. A real rip off.
Cable/sat tv is a ripoff. Why are people paying for commercial tv? Especially when 99% of the programming blows.
Even with fast broadband such as you describe, you can only download as fast as your computer can absorb it. And for websites like Amazon, or video sites,again, it’s only as fast as your computer can absorb and display it.
One thing that does help is a little program called Ublock Origin. I use a lot of the filters available, and their hosts file and it’s made a huge difference in how quickly my dinosaur laptop can take care of what comes in. The program is a browser add-on. Also, I don’t use windoze and that’s a big help too.
A script blocker can be trained to block the extraneous extras slowing the web page download, and allow what is needed for the page.
AdBlockPlus or UBlock Origin work great.
Cuts out slow-loading ad sites and lets a site load fast.
Cost? Free.
Netflix.
That’s odd. My connection is supposed to be 45Mbs, but I still get pauses and stuttering when I try to watch video in high definition.
In a typical household with 3 or 4 people all watching different content in 1080P HD, I can see needing a 200Mbs+ connection. If you want to “cut the cord” for TV watching, 5Mbs won’t cut it.
If I move out to the sticks as I plan, I am dreading having the fastest available connection be HughesNet satellite at 700Kbs. I hope G.Fast really does roll out and really does become available everywhere phone service is.
Uverse from att uses something similar. Fiber to neighbor hoods then copper to homes within 3500 ft.
I am not sure what the download speed is for my Hughes receiver but it is a lot faster than 700kbs.
I never watch movies but youtube will download faster than it plays. When I had dial-up, I would have to wait several minutes to watch a short video.
I used to work for those asswads through a 3rd-party company...literally everyone made nasty remarks and jokes about the Indian overseas department that did certain jobs because they couldn’t do a d@mn thing right and often were the source of fraud.
Got fired just before they jumped whole hog on the pervert-buttkissing bandwagon.
Streaming tv boxes are the way to go for movies and show series.
Out here in the West AT&T has deployed “FTTN”(UVerse VDSL) in most older neighborhoods...copper from the home to the neighborhood splice box then interfaced to VDSL/fiber then on to the CO. G.fast would be good in that situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.fast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_U-verse
We dumped ctv and got a roku years ago. Bill went from 200/mo to 75/mo.
and me.....right now!
Most of youtube content is not 1080P HD. Broadcast stations were forced to go to digital HD 15 years ago and given a 20Mbs slot of bandwidth in exchange for their previous analog spectrum. That was only enough for a single 1080i (not 1080P) broadcast.
The compression schemes used by satellite and cable companies and internet streaming can fit more resolution in less space, but I think Netflix claims you will need at least 10Mbs. In practice, with all the routing hops and traffic congestion, 10Mbs is nowhere near enough and I run into hiccoughs at 45Mbs where I am.
You might be able to test your download speed here : http://speedtest.dslreports.com/
I’d be interested in your actual HughesNet results.
Do you mean 12 Gig? 12 meg is not very fast.
I tried to download it but it demanded I add it to my homepage etc. Firfox blocked it and I thought that might be a good idea.
From the article:
"... the boxes on the street that need to be installed to power G.Fast cost about $70,000. And the cost of bringing that to your home is $0,..."
From that I infer that a $70,000 box will service many households.
He’ll make it free, but you’ll be waiting hours for your data.
Verizon FiOS just arrived in my area. Before that, nothing. No cable, no DSL, only satellite and cellular. Verizon just ran about 1200 feet of fiber from the road to my house. Service is to begin next week. The fiber on the road is up in the poles, along with the copper.
I'll getting rid of DirecTV (which I like) and Excede satellite internet (which is way better than HughesNet which I had before).
That’s very weird. I have never had to download anything. All I ever do is click on the “Cable” button and i runs its tests. I also use FireFox and have no issues. But I use “NoScript” Add-on for FireFox so maybe there is some embedded “download” adware script on the page I never see.
“NoScript” is highly recommended. It stops ALL pages from running java scripts. No more endlessly opening pop-ups or new windows.
You get a notification at the bottom of the page and you can then tell it OK to run content from specific places only and it will remember the next time you visit the page.
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