Ryan
05-05-2005, 12:48 AM
I just got hooked up last friday. It is smokin' fast! Especially for upload/downloading. My 10mb work files used to take 5 minutes with DSL, now it takes close to 3 seconds! $5 extra/month over DSL, and free install.
If...more like when you get the chance, do it. The potential bandwidth will take the internet to new places. And, at least here in So CA there will be a mandetory migration in '06-'07 anyway. I have heard and read that a lot of mid-america towns that don't have broadband will get it through fiber first.
Why? Copper lines are too costly to repair and let me tell ya splicing a 500 pair line ever 2000 feet ads a whole lot in labor cost. Fiber can run 14,000 feet before needing a "splice" (you don't really splice it, you bond the glass together). I have a new box on the outside of the house, a back-up battery inside and a power coverter hooked up to a 110 outlet all to run the outside box.
TV is coming in a couple of months on it for me too. Now I'll get done with work sooner and have more time on TT!
If...more like when you get the chance, do it. The potential bandwidth will take the internet to new places. And, at least here in So CA there will be a mandetory migration in '06-'07 anyway. I have heard and read that a lot of mid-america towns that don't have broadband will get it through fiber first.
Why? Copper lines are too costly to repair and let me tell ya splicing a 500 pair line ever 2000 feet ads a whole lot in labor cost. Fiber can run 14,000 feet before needing a "splice" (you don't really splice it, you bond the glass together). I have a new box on the outside of the house, a back-up battery inside and a power coverter hooked up to a 110 outlet all to run the outside box.
TV is coming in a couple of months on it for me too. Now I'll get done with work sooner and have more time on TT!