 | | I'll believe it when I see it... The day your typical cable company, (Comcast, Adelphia, Cox,...) offers 400 Mb/sec will probably be the same day we'll see world peace. Right now I get a whole FOUR Mbit/sec from Crapcast and it costs $60 a month. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for 400 Mbit/sec from a CATV company. FIOS maybe, but Comcast, yeah right... | |
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join:2005-07-03
Corpus Christi, TX | Re: I'll believe it when I see it... You did not read this completely. The article references using your in house RG-59/RG-6 to create a 400Mbit home network rather then running CAT-5/6 in older homes, and maybe new ones also. The technology is being developed for cable companies, but why not use it for home networking also. This could compete with WIFI, Homeplug, and Ethernet networks. I wish this was available now. | |
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| | | | Re: I'll believe it when I see it... OK, sorry about the outburst. You're correct, I didn't read it thoroughly. I also had it with Comcast and their over priced service so any suggestion that "400 Mbit/sec in just down the road" strikes me a wishful thinking as far as coming from a CATV ISP. I would agree that this would be a benefit to homes that just have coax in the walls. It's also probably a better option then using the power lines for packet transmission since that could also cause a lot of RFI. | |
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| | | Well, your personal feelings aside, Comcast will have to keep up. Seems inevitable with other cable Co's and other companies going to higher speeds.
FioS is limited in area at the moment, but I think the cable companies know its there and are working on higher speeds. | |
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| |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Re: I'll believe it when I see it... said by LeftOfSanity:FioS is limited in area at the moment, but I think the cable companies know its there and are working on higher speeds. but NOBODY is really touching UPLOAD speeds.
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| | | | | Re: I'll believe it when I see it... All isp's are not just going to start offering 100 + mbps for residential services yet. At those speeds, there is a thin line between them being an ISP and you being the ISP.... | |
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| | | I still only get 4mbps from Cox also. I'm not complaining, because I could still be on dial-up. Cable ISPs upgrade their speeds based on what competition is in the area. The only way a cable ISP will roll out something like this is if Verizon rolls out a 400Mbps tier of FIOS. | |
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 MacLeechThe one and onlyPremium
join:2001-07-14
SoCal
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1 edit | This is for in-home use, not last-mile use. This "400Mbps Via Coax" technology is a competitor to MoCa, not DOCSIS.
Cable companies WON"T be using this to deliver higher broadband speeds to your house, it's not designed for that.
It's so you can transfer files within your own house coax wiring, using it as a LAN. Kinda like an updated, higher speed version of 10base-2.
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| | | Re: This is for in-home use, not last-mile use. What people aren't questioning about MOCA and other type of systems is what latency is introduced?
As a gamer the last thing I want is another conversion happening to the data. I'll keep my data on cat5 for distribution.
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| | | | Re: This is for in-home use, not last-mile use. Why not run CAT6 and go for 10GBASE-T.  | |
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| pipe dream? Umm... and it will make you lose those extra pounds you've been carrying around overnight... I think the average bbr reader sees through this like yesteryear's claims about xdsl technology.. overpromised and underdeployed or vaporware. BTW, cable companies are tighterwads than telcos at this point (excluding bellsouth, as it exists today) | |
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Mcadenville, NC | Yet another Technology... I really cant see this happening for a long time... The cable company would have to invest a lot to get cable modems, Digital Terminal over to accept the transmission over the new coax. | |
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| | ........ in arizona where i live cox is a monopoly. i think they went private earlier this year. which means 2 things. thay sure aint gonna upgrade speeds anytime soon. 2nd private companies aint gotta be accountable to shareholders | |
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| dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Re: ........ said by short09:in arizona where i live cox is a monopoly. i think they went private earlier this year. which means 2 things. thay sure aint gonna upgrade speeds anytime soon. 2nd private companies aint gotta be accountable to shareholders And cox's nearest competitor is qwest which is a joke.
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