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FlameDad wrote:got connected to fiber optic tv & internet 2 weeks ago
better, faster, cheaper, more options than comcast
Through Verizon? I am so so jealous.
me too, comcast says i'm supposed to get 6 or 8 mb/second speed (cant remember which one I have), i'm lucky if I get 3 mb/second on a good day, here recently - especially last night - I would have been happy if it would have been as fast as .5 mb/second.
FlameDad wrote:got connected to fiber optic tv & internet 2 weeks ago
better, faster, cheaper, more options than comcast
Through Verizon? I am so so jealous.
It really is a great package that verizon is offering - more choice and speed, less $$$.
The fiber is all underground (as are all of our utilities) - I estimate that 75% of the homes in my area have switched.
Its primarily in new build down here in Houston. But they have been teasing my section of town that it is coming soon. Glad to hear the postive reports.
More speed is quite the understatement. Cable companies are peaking out at somewhere around 8.5Mb connections in most places. You can get 30Mb connections with Verizon's FiOS service. That was unheard of in the U.S. until they started rolling that out. I'd loooove to jump in on that.
"With the threat of hell hanging over my head like a halo..."
The 30mb would be freakish, but even the entry level 5mb is better because every fios fiber is a "home run" line.
At 5:30 PM when everyone jumps online after work the cable slows to a crawl for every one on the same trunk line.
My fios tech said each home has enough fiber to handle any increase in demand brought on by technology
FlameDad wrote:The 30mb would be freakish, but even the entry level 5mb is better because every fios fiber is a "home run" line.
At 5:30 PM when everyone jumps online after work the cable slows to a crawl for every one on the same trunk line.
My fios tech said each home has enough fiber to handle any increase in demand brought on by technology
Things change more than you'd expect. My dad bought a computer with a 1 gig harddrive I think around 1991 or 92 and told me that we could never fill it.
*please disregard this post if dated before 2017 and accept my apologies*
Moore's law is good indicator of how much things will change when it comes to computing technology. It can't predict everything, but it's been pretty much right on for the last fifty years.
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