PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
 ·CableOne
| reply to Cjaiceman
Re: Moooo
Well I don't know why you replied to my post, but anyway...
This isn't necessarily about what speeds the providers are WILLING to give you, so your argument about only being able to get 7 from Comcast is irrelevant. This is about the speeds that the mediums are CAPABLE of providing.
With DOCSIS 3.0, Comcast will be ABLE to provide 100mbps service. So in 4 years when you're watching 1080i videos on Youtube.com and downloading 40-50GB Blu-ray movies from Netflix while TIVO-ing two HD shows at the same time, it will work so smoothly on your 50/10 Comcast connection that you will still be able to browse dslreports.com without any difficulty, while it will be impossible on a 10/1 AT&T connection.
Pretty much the entire argument against U-verse is that coax and fiber are still far from their bandwidth limits, and can grow as needed for years to come. Twisted pair is pretty much AT it's limit, and although it will work fine for now, pretty soon it will be severely overloaded.
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
| but that 100mbps link is shared with other users in a hub like link to the headend also the cable tv boxes use the same link for there guide data, menus, firmware.
U-verse has a switch like link back to the DSLAM that has a big pipe back to the CO / backbone. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to PolarBear
said by PolarBear  :Well I don't know why you replied to my post, but anyway... This isn't necessarily about what speeds the providers are WILLING to give you, so your argument about only being able to get 7 from Comcast is irrelevant. This is about the speeds that the mediums are CAPABLE of providing. With DOCSIS 3.0, Comcast will be ABLE to provide 100mbps service. So in 4 years when you're watching 1080i videos on Youtube.com and downloading 40-50GB Blu-ray movies from Netflix while TIVO-ing two HD shows at the same time, it will work so smoothly on your 50/10 Comcast connection that you will still be able to browse dslreports.com without any difficulty, while it will be impossible on a 10/1 AT&T connection. You're not going to be downloading blu-ray movies from netflix. blu-ray movies are called that because the discs are read by a blue laser. Since when is a downloaded movie read by a laser?
Also Netflix isn't going to offer 40GB movies when most of the country still won't even have 10 mbps speed. Youtube 1080i? please. They won't even support 1.5 mbps bit rates now and most people that have internet have that. |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
·CableOne
| said by BF69 :You're not going to be downloading blu-ray movies from netflix. blu-ray movies are called that because the discs are read by a blue laser. Since when is a downloaded movie read by a laser? I was referring to the CONTENT on the disc; just as we can download a "cd" and burn it to a blank cd, or download a "DVD" and burn it to a blank DVD. I figured a logical thinker would have been able to figure that out.said by BF69 :Also Netflix isn't going to offer 40GB movies when most of the country still won't even have 10 mbps speed. Youtube 1080i? please. They won't even support 1.5 mbps bit rates now and most people that have internet have that. The statements I made regarding netflix and youtube were PREDICTIONS based on the fact that the technology is available to do those things, they just haven't happened yet. And why wouldn't most of the country not have at least 10mbps speeds? In the last four years, the highest speed offered by Comcast nearest me has gone from 3mbps to 8mbps, so it seems logical to me that in another 4 years they very well could offer at least 20mbps, if not more, especially with the adoption of DOCSIS 3.
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | reply to BF69
Dude, go look up the word "hypathical". If you can not see that he was being hypathical. Then go back to school or something. Just go away. |
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bugabuga
join:2004-06-10
Austin, TX | reply to Joe12345678
Well duh, and those DSLAMs will share whatever trunk ATT has to that office, so you have same problem moved up one step. |
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skrupowies
join:2002-08-22
Wallingford, CT
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to DaMaGeINC
said by DaMaGeINC :Dude, go look up the word "hypathical". If you can not see that he was being hypathical. Then go back to school or something. Just go away. Dude, speaking of going back to school, I think you might want to try that. I don't think you'll ba able to find "hypathical" in your dictionary. You might want to try looking up "hypothetical". I think you'll have much better luck. |
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xsiddalx
join:2005-03-11
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| reply to Joe12345678
said by Joe12345678 :but that 100mbps link is shared with other users in a hub like link to the headend also the cable tv boxes use the same link for there guide data, menus, firmware. U-verse has a switch like link back to the DSLAM that has a big pipe back to the CO / backbone. U-Verse has the same topography as cable, or it is better said, similar.
U-Verse menus for video suffer from the same latency as satellite I hear (though I wouldn't give up my sat menus for cable). The field terminals with the DSL cards share bandwidth back to the CO. The CO may play a role or not.
The data network is eating the telephone network...it is more important how close to the terminal you are for ip services.
Short of fiber to the home, the telephone distribution system is looking a lot like the cable system.
It's all shared. The question becomes, how far out from the customer premises does the sharing occur? |
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RubberMan
@cox.net | reply to skrupowies
LOL, I couldn't have said it ANY better!  |
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macken 645
@sbcglobal.net
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>U-Verse has the same topography as cable, or it is better said, similar
Cards?, no cards each customer has an IP address and a dedicated line from remote terminal to home gateway. from remote terminal to CO it's a 1 gigabit line for the shared content |
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calvinneal
join:2003-09-01
Royal Oak, MI
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to bugabuga
All internet traffic on Uverse is on Sonet networks. There is no traffic on trunks which are copper facilities for office to office switched traffic. Trunks are dso level circuts and are typically switched circuts. Completely different technology. ATT is offering 10 mb download speeds in our area and uverse voice. The backbone buildup is the biggest push I have seen at ATT. I know this company, they will throw whatever resources at it until they are market dominant. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | reply to RubberMan
Har Har Har, Mr. Spelling B |
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bb45
join:2008-01-27 | reply to DaMaGeINC
Dude - look in dictionary - it is hypothetical, not hypathical. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | Obviously we all got the meaning of the word so drop it! |
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