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To: Kellis91789

Most areas have fiber to a node, and then copper to the house.

To have fiber in the home you would need a laser receiver/decoder in the house. Those can be just a little expensive.

Most of the time the download speed in suburban cable systems is maxing out the server you are downloading from.

When I worked at the cable company we had a node in our office. That speed was sweet.


78 posted on 05/26/2016 7:25:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who dies)
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To: Vermont Lt

I purchased and installed a few gigabit fiber switches when I was an IT Director fifteen years ago, just before copper gigabit became available. I don’t recall them being all that expensive back then. Of course, I wasn’t paying for them out of my own pocket ;-)


82 posted on 05/26/2016 7:33:10 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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