cooldude9919
join:2000-05-29
Cape Girardeau, MO
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Re: TWC Fiber - Any Experience?
I dont know what kind of bandwidth they have running into Fredericksburg, if its their own fiber backhauling to san antontio or austin, or something else, but i would guess its enough. In the city directly i know they have plenty of bandwidth, in the neighborhood of many 10gb waves going to houston i believe before dumping out on the internet. With the fiber connection you arent going to be sharing it with anyone on a local level, the only possible sharing point would be at a backhauling/transit level and with the amount of customers and traffic they have in the area im sure you will be fine.
The only thing i could find that was close was the ethernet offering from XO communications which is baiscally just bonded copper dsl lines and it maxes out at 10mbit and you have to be pretty close to a central office. With the option to upgrade the fiber speed easily at any time, xo's offering really didnt compare.
We have some other twc sites throughout the country and some charter fiber sites, and i can honestly say the twc network/backbone in the austin and san antonio area is better than any other sites ive seen. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| The note about their backbone in this area is encouraging. They seem to have a generous helping of L3, whose network I like.
I suppose I trust rDNS on traceroutes a bit too much...seeing "ge" in there made me a bit queasy, but then again all of Kerrville's bandwidth goes over an OC3 from what I hear (from ATT).
Here in Fredericksburg, according to folks at the city level, TWC was basically the savior for communications by buying out TCI Cable, which was doing such a crappy job in the nineties that the city was going to work with Kerrville Telephone Company to overbuild TCI's network with their own HFC system.
Verizon at the time only had T1 service and it was freaskishly expensive to do loops connecting city offices, schools, etc. so the city had to build out its own dark fiber for that purpose. To this day, Verizon still has no DSL (et alone FiOS) and it seems anything above bonded T1s are hard to come by.
So, as the city was working to get serviceable TV and broadband to TCIers, TWC came in, bought the TCI system and upgraded everything. The system is beginning to show its age again (easy to do when you're selling 15/2 packages over DOCSIS 1.1) but the city's connection to the internet is via TWC.
Side note: I'll respond to your IM in a sec. Looks like big city pricing is, as usual, a heckuva lot cheaper than out here. |
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JoelC707
join:2002-07-09
Tucson, AZ
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said by cooldude9919  :With the fiber connection you arent going to be sharing it with anyone on a local level, the only possible sharing point would be at a backhauling/transit level and with the amount of customers and traffic they have in the area im sure you will be fine. Correct. Actually that's the only point you can be guaranteed to be sharing with other users. Don't worry about "sharing with cable modem users", you won't be. At least not in any sense that you would notice them. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Of course I woudln't be sharing with them directly; coax is per-node sharing and I'd only be using the same backhaul lines as them to hte internet. Which are, hopefully (they've gotta be) plenty... |
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