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Isn’t “broadband” a sexist term? (humor)
Can The Burn make it FREE?
“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.
“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.
Anything to defeat Comcast and their domination through bribes to politicians.
My internet connection is super fast. A lot of my posts appear before I’ve even read the article.
Why I can remember the days 56k was too fast. Dam speeders these days.
I haven’t had a landline since 1998. Do I need to go retro to move forward? Is this the inverse Coolio principle?
I’m surprised they would focus on plain unshielded wire. Anything twisted (or not) pair could carry coax can carry with greater bandwidth.
There will be a hub on each block or few blocks and it will be a several hundred times faster than fiber and you will need a home wireless router-like box that talks with it, because your old router will seem like dial-up.
Land lines are in such a state of degradation that they can’t even handle old fashioned rotary Telephones.
This is a very big deal. I can easily see AT&T feeding their DirecTV signals with this scheme instead of via satellite. That will let them take business from the cable guys since they will be able to provide high speed Internet plus high speed DirecTV.
Around five years ago, Centel told me they would have high speed internet here within six months.They still don’t have it.
I have seen several local TV programs where they did stories about high speed internet coming to the rural areas around here. It never happened.
I finally signed up for Hughes satellite which is more expensive than I can afford but just decided to bite the bullet and make cuts somewhere else and get it.
Centel got to around half a mile of here but that is where they stopped, apparently permanently.
They left out an important point (unless I missed it) - G.Fast only delivers those speeds over a short distance - 300m or so. Thus it is deployed close to homes and needs broadband transport, e,g, fiber or satellite, to get to the CO.
Uverse from att uses something similar. Fiber to neighbor hoods then copper to homes within 3500 ft.
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).