1 edit | reply to Wa Resident
Re: Works for me.... said by Wa Resident :said by wifi4milez: I tend to agree with that statement. A lot of people (here specifically) get a little too excited by the term 'fiber', when at the end of the day it really doesnt mean anything. Assuming the provider can give you solid service, the delivery medium is rather pointless. Yea, yea.....enjoy your non fiber internet as over here fiber can actually mean 100/100MBps speeds which cable can't even achieve! The irony of this is that the only provider delivering 100Mbps speeds to the home is not a FTTH provider. It is a cable company. |
|
| said by fifty nine:The irony of this is that the only provider delivering 100Mbps speeds to the home is not a FTTH provider. It is a cable company. Wanna bet?..........100/100MB residential fiber has been available here in WA state for years now!
These fiber internet providers also offer phone and tv service. So no, it's not just verizon or cable companies offering such services. |
|
|
|
| said by WA Resident :said by fifty nine:The irony of this is that the only provider delivering 100Mbps speeds to the home is not a FTTH provider. It is a cable company. Wanna bet?..........100/100MB residential fiber has been available here in WA state for years now! These fiber internet providers also offer phone and tv service. So no, it's not just verizon or cable companies offering such services. OK so you'll find it in some small pockets here and there. No big deal.
Most people on FTTH are seeing much less. Verizon doesn't even have a 100Mbps planned deployment to home users yet.
Right now, FTTH is cutting edge and it remains to be seen whether it will be mainstream or not.
If cable companies need to upgrade to FTTH, it is not that difficult for them since most of the way has already been covered by fiber. |
|
| said by fifty nine:said by WA Resident :said by fifty nine:The irony of this is that the only provider delivering 100Mbps speeds to the home is not a FTTH provider. It is a cable company. Wanna bet?..........100/100MB residential fiber has been available here in WA state for years now! These fiber internet providers also offer phone and tv service. So no, it's not just verizon or cable companies offering such services. OK so you'll find it in some small pockets here and there. No big deal. Most people on FTTH are seeing much less. Verizon doesn't even have a 100Mbps planned deployment to home users yet. Right now, FTTH is cutting edge and it remains to be seen whether it will be mainstream or not. If cable companies need to upgrade to FTTH, it is not that difficult for them since most of the way has already been covered by fiber. Yea, cable companies in rural areas like this one really have it that easy when they can't even provide that much tv let alone provide internet....meaning, there is no fiber at all.
I believe that FTTH is the future as there's many fiber networks being built. The county that i live in is still building out their network in order to reach more rural residents. Heck, even cows, goats and pigs have access to fiber around here since it runs along the farms, i could even take pics of the goats with the fiber lines overhead in case you wouldn't believe me. |
|
| I live in a rural area and most people use satellite for TV.
The cable company has a decent HFC network though. |
|
| reply to fifty nine
Here's an article from early 2002 about one of Washington's PUDs which offers fiber to the home.
"Residents and businesses in Grant County can make Voice Over IP telephone calls, order Video On Demand movies and access the Internet over their 1 gigabit fiber-optic connections. Each Zipp connection to the home or business is capable of two-way service at 1 gigabit per second speeds."
»www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stor···s12.html |
|
 ericn32mehPremium
join:2009-09-23
Costa Mesa, CA
 ·Time Warner Cable
| reply to fifty nine
said by fifty nine:said by WA Resident :said by fifty nine:The irony of this is that the only provider delivering 100Mbps speeds to the home is not a FTTH provider. It is a cable company. Wanna bet?..........100/100MB residential fiber has been available here in WA state for years now! These fiber internet providers also offer phone and tv service. So no, it's not just verizon or cable companies offering such services. OK so you'll find it in some small pockets here and there. No big deal. Most people on FTTH are seeing much less. Verizon doesn't even have a 100Mbps planned deployment to home users yet. Right now, FTTH is cutting edge and it remains to be seen whether it will be mainstream or not. If cable companies need to upgrade to FTTH, it is not that difficult for them since most of the way has already been covered by fiber. I think we will see fiber to the last amp (FTTLA) before we see FTTH. It has practically identical capabilites if the system is 1GHz. On my street, that could work out to 10 QAM channels (380 Mbps using DOCSIS) per house passed |
|
