10 Gbps connections for Salisbury NC households if they're willing to pay for it...

[Excelsior]

man, the Charlotte, NC area is looking more and more enticing to relocate to.

To be fair, Salisbury sucks hard. It's a good 45 minutes from Charlotte and it's a terrible place. Not even cheap high speed internet would entice me to move there.

 

[02ranger]

To be fair, Salisbury sucks hard. It's a good 45 minutes from Charlotte and it's a terrible place. Not even cheap high speed internet would entice me to move there.

You realize that Salisbury is a small town 50 miles north of Charlotte right? 50 miles. The tallest building there is the Food Lion (Delhaize) corporate HQ...At four stories... In the middle of a field.

I live in Salisbury and I can honestly say you're both right. I like it cause its my home, but the only thing open past 9:00 is fast food and the 24 hour Wal-Mart. Unfortunately I don't live in an area covered by Fibrant, either. And yes, the Food Lion corporate building is the tallest structure in Salisbury (I'm not actually sure, but it probably really is). Charlotte is 45 minutes away, Winston-Salem is 45 minutes away, Greensboro an hour. We don't even have a bookstore except the hippy bookstore in downtown. Don't be envious over some high speed internet cause that's all we have to entice people......

 

[JEDIYoda]

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[JEDIYoda]

I'm pretty sure 50 Mbps speeds upstream as well as downstream is hard to find from any major broadband for $45. When you're trying to back up multimedia files to Carbonite asymmetrical speeds become a pain.

Noway they are offering 50 mbps up and 50mbps down...not happening!!

 

[Excelsior]

I live in Salisbury and I can honestly say you're both right. I like it cause its my home, but the only thing open past 9:00 is fast food and the 24 hour Wal-Mart. Unfortunately I don't live in an area covered by Fibrant, either. And yes, the Food Lion corporate building is the tallest structure in Salisbury (I'm not actually sure, but it probably really is). Charlotte is 45 minutes away, Winston-Salem is 45 minutes away, Greensboro an hour. We don't even have a bookstore except the hippy bookstore in downtown. Don't be envious over some high speed internet cause that's all we have to entice people......

I'm from Charlotte but I've spent ample time in Salisbury rotating through the hospital there, so understand I wasn't hating just to do it. I do hope the I-85 corridor improves in general though, because it does hold some promise for the future.

 

[02ranger]

I'm from Charlotte but I've spent ample time in Salisbury rotating through the hospital there, so understand I wasn't hating just to do it. I do hope the I-85 corridor improves in general though, because it does hold some promise for the future.

No worries, I didn't take offense or anything. I remember being told in middle school that "at the current rate of growth, Salisbury and Charlotte will have to merge in 10 years or less and become a new combined metropolis". That was at least 15 years ago. lol

 

[rh71]

I get my tv eps in less than 2 minutes (or rather it's waiting for me the next morning due to automation). Do I really need faster than 50/50? I'm thinking no.

 

[mikeford]

$65/mo incl eq I get 100/10 with real performance a bit faster. I should be paying a bit less but my last "deal" ran out and I haven't bothered to try for better.

It works great, or not at all, for the most part. Once every month or two its down for maybe a few hours in the night.

I don't see the need for our three heavy user family for more.

 

[WackyDan]

I live in Salisbury and I can honestly say you're both right. I like it cause its my home, but the only thing open past 9:00 is fast food and the 24 hour Wal-Mart. Unfortunately I don't live in an area covered by Fibrant, either. And yes, the Food Lion corporate building is the tallest structure in Salisbury (I'm not actually sure, but it probably really is). Charlotte is 45 minutes away, Winston-Salem is 45 minutes away, Greensboro an hour. We don't even have a bookstore except the hippy bookstore in downtown. Don't be envious over some high speed internet cause that's all we have to entice people......

Well... To be a bit more fair... You do have Mambos. I go to lunch there every time I'm in Salisbury. Great little Cuban joint.

 

[Hugo Drax]

This is like the Megapixel race where people did not know there is more to a camera output quality than just Megapixels, so they would one up the Megapixels on each model just to say "50 MEGAPIXELS!!" even though the image looks like shit if you are not shooting in a location with 100,000 lux of lighting.

I guess now we are gonna see the Gigabyte wars, people paying 200 bucks a month not knowing the endpoint wont push 10GB to begin with, they would be lucky if they get 15Mbit from the endpoint.

 

[blankslate]

I guess now we are gonna see the Gigabyte wars, people paying 200 bucks a month not knowing the endpoint wont push 10GB to begin with, they would be lucky if they get 15Mbit from the endpoint.

I doubt people with spring for more than the 50/50mbps symmetrical connections in that area unless they're running a business from their residence. The article notes that the ISP isn't making a hard push on selling 10 Gbps per second to residents...

They're also commencing with upgrades to the network with an eye toward being able to fulfill the service claims with very little network loss. It's probably a safe bet that to get the 10Gpbs service you'll be renting the modem/router from them.


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[Red Squirrel]

This is like the Megapixel race where people did not know there is more to a camera output quality than just Megapixels, so they would one up the Megapixels on each model just to say "50 MEGAPIXELS!!" even though the image looks like shit if you are not shooting in a location with 100,000 lux of lighting.

I guess now we are gonna see the Gigabyte wars, people paying 200 bucks a month not knowing the endpoint wont push 10GB to begin with, they would be lucky if they get 15Mbit from the endpoint.

Yeah I'd be curious to know what kind of uplinks these ISPs have. They recently brought in fibre to my city, and have a couple 10gig links for it. If they were actually offering 10gig per customer they'd need many 100gig links to support that.

It's also typical in rural areas for ADSL to be limited by T1 speeds as it might be going to an AFC that is then fed by a couple T1s.

 

[waffleironhead]

I can get 1g/25m for $199 or 1g/1g for $400. Still not paying their $500 install charge. Sticking with my lte allotment.

 

[drebo]

Yeah I'd be curious to know what kind of uplinks these ISPs have. They recently brought in fibre to my city, and have a couple 10gig links for it. If they were actually offering 10gig per customer they'd need many 100gig links to support that.

It's also typical in rural areas for ADSL to be limited by T1 speeds as it might be going to an AFC that is then fed by a couple T1s.

Traffic planning is an art.

A single 10gb link can be oversold many times over.

The faster the link, the greater the oversell percentage.

Two 10gb links could be oversold 50 to 1 without anyone noticing, depending on the traffic profile.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Traffic planning is an art.

A single 10gb link can be oversold many times over.

The faster the link, the greater the oversell percentage.

Two 10gb links could be oversold 50 to 1 without anyone noticing, depending on the traffic profile.

Or when they just tell you your unlimited isn't unlimited and you are using too much and they are going to throttle you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

/me hugs my VZ FIOS 75/75 service, with TV, for $102/mo.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Traffic planning is an art.

A single 10gb link can be oversold many times over.

The faster the link, the greater the oversell percentage.

Two 10gb links could be oversold 50 to 1 without anyone noticing, depending on the traffic profile.

I guess one thing with such high speeds is that stuff transfers faster, so when a customer is saturating their link, they wont be saturating it for very long. So technically I guess you could get away with overselling it by a large number.