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to David0417
Re: 45MB Internet on 55MB Bonded Profile?Last I heard while I was a prem tech they had tested 75Mb profiles(very closed testing to some higher ups in the Schaumberg/Hoffman Estates area) through bonding, and that they had a theoretical maximum of something like 170-something Mb. Obviously the theoretical maximum was in a controlled environment with dedicated, simulated CO/SAI/VRAD/etc...
Honestly they don't REALLY want to compete with cable in throughput. If they did then they wouldn't limit FTTP customers to the same profiles as FTTN customers. Their stance was "Well we don't want to piss off the FTTN customers when they see the FTTP customers getting much better speeds).
If they truly wanted to compete through throughput, they would drive those FTTP profiles through the roof to show what CAN be done(the laymen wouldn't realize the massive tech differences between twisted pair/pair bonded twisted pair and FTTP). |
BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT ·Frontier FiberOp.. Asus RT-AC68
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to Zilveari
Re: 45MB Internet on 55MB Bonded Profile?Yeah, they are really pissing off the FTTP folks, as they are running BPON and yet they can't get the same speeds that someone on the same block as a VRAD with copper can.
I understand that they can't crank the video bandwidth up, since they use one set of streams, but at least crank the internet up to 100/50 or something like that. Our neighborhood as an extra conduit for fiber, and it lays empty since AT&T isn't running brownfield FTTH. The U-Verse platform with IPTV offered the perfect way to start running brownfield fiber where it's easy in parallel with VDSL, but no, AT&T is too cheap to do that. At least if they did it in a few neighborhoods, it would light a fire under the local cable incumbent's @$$ and get them to speed their offerings up. |