[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7GBVgdEms[/media]
Uh huh
It's because those using fiber, just like those who aren't, cap the internet.
Internet can now be faster than HDD's write times. And that should be the standard, if you ask me.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46140170][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7GBVgdEms[/media]
Uh huh
It's because those using fiber, just like those who aren't, cap the internet.
Internet can now be faster than HDD's write times. And that should be the standard, if you ask me.[/QUOTE]
Well fibre in the UK almost entirely means FTTC not FTTP
I get the feeling though that once most homes have FTTP it will become a major pissing contest and leave cable in the dust.
[QUOTE]In Ofcom's nomenclature "cable" means ISP Virgin Media and "fibre" refers to the other big domestic ISPs it samples when drawing up statistics.[/QUOTE]
I don't even
too bad it's not all about speed and more about bandwidth
[quote]In Ofcom's nomenclature "cable" means ISP Virgin Media and "fibre" refers to the other big domestic ISPs it samples when drawing up statistics.[/quote]
[quote]Virgin Media said that it too used fibre to cabinets near customers' homes. It added that its network differed from other providers because it used coaxial cable rather than copper to provide the link between those cabinets and a home.[/quote]
Article actually should be "Virgin Media faster than all other competitors"
Both use Fibre-Optic lines to cabinets, it's just Virgin's are their own private lines while BT Openreach share their infrastructure for many ISPs to sell - also that last bit about which type of copper cable is used for the final leg.
Well I have TV Sasebo's 160mbit package, when I lived near Tokyo I had NTTs 160mbit FibO, I don't really notice a difference, I admit NTTs FibO service was a little more reliable and more responsive, they offered it when I moved here but they wanted me to wait 3 weeks for a tech to come out and hook me up and they don't offer TV with their internet here like they do in Kanagawa. The average here is anywhere from 30mbit to 160mbit which is about $70. I don't know why UK cable companies get off on boasting about being better than Fiber, especially if a Fibre connection is running 42 Mbps it's obviously capped. That's like saying you can run faster than Usian Bolt while he's on crutches for a foot injury.
NZ is going full FTTP basically everywhere it can, but will get bottlenecked at our own undersea cable because they fill it with artificial traffic to keep prices high. So current Fibre of 100 down, 50 up, is $139 for 150GB. For a country that owns the undersea cables between Aus, NZ and the USA, its quite high.
[QUOTE=Boilrig;46147607]NZ is going full FTTP basically everywhere it can, but will get bottlenecked at our own undersea cable because they fill it with artificial traffic to keep prices high. So current Fibre of 100 down, 50 up, is $139 for 150GB. For a country that owns the undersea cables between Aus, NZ and the USA, its quite high.[/QUOTE]
I was paying $89 for unlimited 100/50 through slingshot via a deal with 14ms ping to australian servers and avg 110ms to US and never had any problems.
Anyway if you're paying $139 for 150GB you're an idiot.
I pay around $100 for unlimited 100/1.5. The ratio is so fucked.
As someone stuck with 56kb/s with absolutely no future hope of faster speeds, I envy you all.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;46140170][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7GBVgdEms[/media]
Uh huh
It's because those using fiber, just like those who aren't, cap the internet.
Internet can now be faster than HDD's write times. And that should be the standard, if you ask me.[/QUOTE]
Mother of god, that's insane.
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