iansltx
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Re: Fios or Fois
True, but AT&T's fiber is less than a mile from your home (less than 3k feet in most cases). Qwest's is 6k feet or more.
No, I'm not standing up for AT&T. They're not fiber optic either. It's just that fiber is closer to the home with them than with Qwest. |
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dynodb
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| said by iansltx  :True, but AT&T's fiber is less than a mile from your home (less than 3k feet in most cases). Qwest's is 6k feet or more. No, I'm not standing up for AT&T. They're not fiber optic either. It's just that fiber is closer to the home with them than with Qwest. Uhh... wouldn't that depend on the home and location of the particular node? I doubt that AT&T has a FTTN node within 3kft of every home any more than Qwest does. Certainly there are going to be quite a few homes within 3kft or 6kft to a Qwest FTTN DSLAM- they don't go and intentionally locate them at least 6kft from the nearest potential customer.
Besides, the difference between 3kft and 6kft isn't very significant until you're looking at speeds around 18M. At 10-12M, 6kft would be plenty close. |
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iansltx
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| It's not the download that I'm focused on, its the upload. ADSL2+ tops out at 1Mbps. AT&T profiles customers at 25/2 for their VDSL product, and broadband packages are up to 1.5 Mbps on the upload side.
As for the Qwest side of things, you are correct that there are plenty of homes within 3k feet of a DSLAM. However with AT&T VDSL MOST homes are under 3k feet away due to the technological limits of VDSL. There are a few homes at 5k feet, but on average people are much closer to an AT&T U-Verse fridge than to Qwest's FTTN equipment.
Again, upload is my big deal and cable's too...unless you're comparing cable with fiber. VDSL gets better upload speeds than ADSL2+ and that's what Qwest is lacking even in their "next generation" areas. At 20 Mbps, they're right in saying that download is "just fine" for most people...provided Qwest actually provisioned their systems to deliver advertised speeds. |
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