Comments on: Fiber Optics: Past Copper http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 09 May 2012 02:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andrew Hall http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102895 Andrew Hall Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102895 I live very rurally, there is a comms company established nearby that delivers the internet to your home via 5GHz radio waves, much like wireless. They have a mast on one of the larger hills nearby that your house is connected to via a condensed transciever, they then have a 20Ghz microwave connection on that mast to one of the nearby major cities that has T1 access. They reliably give anything up to 100mbps up and down for consumer households and can go up to 1gbps for businesses at a premium cost. No download caps, always on. The ping to the T1 network is 17ms. I don’t think we should consider this concept dead for highly rural communities where laying fiber lines will be expensive in time and money.

]]> By: Ryan Bennett http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102777 Ryan Bennett Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102777 I am confused. You are applauding Google for building fiber optics in ONE community but in the same article cast Verizon in a negative light even though it’s deployed fiber optics in THOUSANDS of communities already?

]]> By: Ryan Bennett http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102778 Ryan Bennett Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102778 I am confused. You are applauding Google for building fiber optics in ONE community but in the same article cast Verizon in a negative light even though it’s deployed fiber optics in THOUSANDS of communities already?

]]> By: DigitalRed http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102727 DigitalRed Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102727 Really hope this succeeds. It would be foolhardy to turn down this size of investment, but doing so wouldn’t be the dumbest thing a politician has done…

]]> By: DigitalRed http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102728 DigitalRed Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102728 Really hope this succeeds. It would be foolhardy to turn down this size of investment, but doing so wouldn’t be the dumbest thing a politician has done…

]]> By: millisa http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102600 millisa Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102600 Most u-verse installs aren’t fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP). It’s usually a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) where they have a DSLAM and from there it’s just a copper pair to the house (vdsl for most people).
I’ve been relatively happy with the u-verse product, but to compare it to FIOS in its delivery just isn’t right since so few are FTTP like fios. You can still get the 24Mbps/3Mbps service regardless of how they get the connection to the premises currently.

I guess what I’m saying is if you have ATT fiber at the house for your tv/net/phone, it’d be a u-verse product, but if you have a u-verse product you probably don’t have fiber to the house; they aren’t synonymous and interchangeable as being presented here.

]]> By: millisa http://www.slashgear.com/fiber-optics-30143526/#comment-102601 millisa Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:49:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=143526#comment-102601 Most u-verse installs aren’t fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP). It’s usually a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) where they have a DSLAM and from there it’s just a copper pair to the house (vdsl for most people).
I’ve been relatively happy with the u-verse product, but to compare it to FIOS in its delivery just isn’t right since so few are FTTP like fios. You can still get the 24Mbps/3Mbps service regardless of how they get the connection to the premises currently.

I guess what I’m saying is if you have ATT fiber at the house for your tv/net/phone, it’d be a u-verse product, but if you have a u-verse product you probably don’t have fiber to the house; they aren’t synonymous and interchangeable as being presented here.

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