 joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | Fiber is liberating Whether from Verizon or other FTTH providers like Paxio (»www.paxio.com) I can tell you that fiber is a whole new experience when surfing at home. True, you find out just how slow the servers are on the other end  but sometimes you are just amazed at how fast that Linux distro just downloaded.
Paxio offers 100M/100M service for $145/mo. and full symmetric gig service for about $400/mo. At these rates, I felt I could afford to be a little extravagant with my home connection!
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dr2500
join:2005-09-09
Lancaster, PA | and the winner is....YOU! Nice speeds, how was the install? |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | said by dr2500:and the winner is....YOU! Nice speeds, how was the install? Install was pretty painless. They connected our little subdivision of 52 homes and that was it. These houses were built by Pulte five years ago and they already had fiber from each home to a central pedestal, so all they needed was to string a fiber from there to their datacenter and put in some equipment.
Paxio is a small ISP (for now) but they really know their fiber! They offer VoIP now and will be rolling out IPTV soon. |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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 Crikey, you transferred data over the internet to your home faster than most people can transfer data within their wired network. Strong work!
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to joebarnhart
Looks really nice!
And for everyone else.. to feed your hunger:
# Non-Residential Use - Hosting high-volume websites or continuous high traffic use of PAXIO residential service is not permitted. Bandwidth limitations for total usage and 95% percentile calculation vary based on service plan, for plan specifics send a request to info@paxio.com. Individual Users will be notified if their traffic volume exceeds acceptable rates.
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 MysticGogetaThe Robot DevilPremium
join:2005-03-14
League City, TX | reply to joebarnhart
WOHA just WOHA holy SH@T I want that  Although I can't see a website letting you max even a quarter of that.
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said by joebarnhart:Whether from Verizon or other FTTH providers like Paxio (» www.paxio.com) I can tell you that fiber is a whole new experience when surfing at home. quote:
PAXIO reserves the right to discontinue service to any User at any time for any reason.
a. Assuming another individual's identity ("spoofing") - Pretending to be another person without the true individual's consent. For example, attempting to send email using said individual's account, logging into chat rooms with their login ID, or posting to newsgroups using his or her name is considered spoofing.
Can you get POTS when Paxio at their discretion disconnects you for doing what I just did? |
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 RideRedVista needs a popup blocker for VistaPremium
join:2005-06-18
USA | reply to fiberguy
Just noticed that. Looks like they went the the Brian Roberts' School of Low Mileage BMW Leasing. |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to fiberguy
If you want business service you can get that too. Will you pay more than $145/mo. if you push 100M all day, every day? Of course. Bandwidth is a commodity, just like everything else. The more you use the more you will pay.
As for websites, I have five domains and together they might push 1G/mo. Not exactly top producers in terms of traffic! Paxio lets you have websites on your personal account. But if you start pushing traffic like Amazon.com, they will suggest a different class of service. (And its still be a better deal than Comcast or Verizon.)
BTW -- have you ever found an internet service for home that doesn't have a clause in their contract regarding usage? I haven't. It's a sad commentary on the necessity for legal protection these days, but companies can't rely on common sense. |
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RideRedVista needs a popup blocker for VistaPremium
join:2005-06-18
USA
2 edits | When I had 7Mb service from DSL Extreme they didn't have any usage clauses, (it was unlimited use and they permit serving) they probably still don't but I haven't seen their AUP in a while.
Most providers do have vague clauses but few actually enforce them. Paxio and Cox actually will tell you what the limits are (Cox says on their site and Paxio will tell you if you email them). Others like Comcast refuse to state what their phantom caps are and rather will just threaten you with cancellation if you don't cut your usage by half.
No doubt that Paxio's speeds are great, but if it's typical residential use it would be very easy to get into that top 5%. I would venture to guess that most Paxio users are like most other users and don't generate a lot of traffic. I would be interested in seeing what the current monthly usage cap is for the 100Mb service.
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