Fiber Optic Data Service in Sacramento (10mb up and down) $49/month!

[ashneel]

hey bro u dl 700k with fiber?


hmmm thats gay because i used to dl 500k just using regular @home service before.


i thought if you have 10mb fiber connection you should at least get 2mb and above.

please correct me if i am wrong.

 

[TheFirm]

it can be much faster but i was downloading off a cnet.. put to me a fast site and ill post what i get =)

 

[Zero]

hey ashneel, not every broadband customer like yerself gets those kinds of downloads.....I would say the majority download between150 to 250kbs . You my friend, are an exception.........thanks for replying though.

Zero

 

[Jenova314]

i hope they come here to the bay area. it's so gay that we the silicon valley residents don't get the cutting edge technology first

 

[Zero]

Well, they're proly thinking they don't care if they dissapoint sacramento. Proly be worse to dissapoint Silicon Valley. heh. Or maybe with the recent probs with tech companies, Silicon Valley said, "Go try that $hit on someone else!" LOL

Zero

 

[SirDante]

They said it will take 3 years to hook up all of Sac. Davis after that...perhaps.

 

[Jenova314]

<< They said it will take 3 years to hook up all of Sac. Davis after that...perhaps. >>



sheesh, this is like the dark ages

 

[TheFirm]

it will be up to antelope in the winter or fall of 2002 the rest i do not know some has a site where i can prolly rank in alot of download ill see the max i can get. off winfirst speed test i get 9.84megs so thats.. i dont know =)

 

[Zero]

I don't know how long it takes to run fresh cable in a city with over 1million people but 3 years may not be that unreasonable. I think they barely have 2500 customers so far in sacramento....if that. I'm guessing they're not layin all the cable down just yet.........I would guess that they would lay additional cable as customers increase(to pay for the cabling). If ATT is backing Winfirst, I doubt ATT would give Winfast enough money to lay all the cable......ATT cable service would diminish fast! ATT is gonna milk they're cable service for as long as they can.

Zero

 

[Devistater]

Ashneel said:
i thought if you have 10mb fiber connection you should at least get 2mb and above.


No, a 10mb connection means 10 megabaud or 10 mega bits per second. To get mega BYTES per second you must divide by 8. 10/8=1.25 megaBYTES per second. Note that this is theoretical maximum, and doesn't include overhead. Besides that, most servers probably won't let you download that fast. Personally I get 150 to 160 kbytes/sec out of my 1.5 mbit DSL which is pretty good.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

I just got word about the setup costs. A friend of mine inquired about the service in Sacramento because he's lucky enough to live smack dab in the middle of the availablity range. He told me that setup was $1500 for 10mbps u/d and 45 bucks a month + isp fees. Still a good deal though, but the setup fee is kinda high ain't it?

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Kinda high? $1500 for a setup fee seems very high to me.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Yeah I know it's high, but that's what he told me. My parents are moving to Sacramento so I'll have them look into it. Is it true that it's not unlimited use? 30/60/90 gig upload/download plans?

 

[QTPie]

Damn, I live right in Silicon Valley, work for a company that makes fiber-optics comm equipment and I use dial-up!

 

[HurtMe]

Okay, the $1500 set-up fee kinda killed the delicious deal. Now I don't feel so bad anymore ;-)

 

[winryan]

I have a cable modem and get 300-400kbyte d/l all the time all for around 40 a month. So even if this fiber service were available here, I'd stay with the cable and enjoy the UNLIMITED d/l limit. I d/l 30gb a month easy so that would suck paying extra. And by the way, people saying I hope it comes to me, thats a big hope because so much work has to be done to install the fiber optic wiring through any region. Before the recession we're currently having came the fiber was being installed like crazy but the slowdown in the economy kinda brought it to a hault. Wait a year or so and hopefully it picks up again. Once we're all connected by fiber, our world will be a much happier place

Ryan

 

[Baaka]

can you use a router and create a LAN??

is this like cable wehre you lose bandwidth/? when you have multilpe users on it a la CABLE MODEM or more like dsl the closer you are the faster you will be?? man this sounds hella cool???

what are the cost too???


WOW !! SWEETEST THING EVER!! cna't wait to move to SACTO NOW!

 

[hrunting]

Hi,

New poster here....

I live in Sac, and am looking into Winfirst also. After talking to them, and reading posts at DSLReports, I've discovered the following:

• There is NO setup costs to the consumer. It may cost them $1500 to hook up a house, though.

• They CAN roll out to an appartment, as long as they have permission from the appartment manager (this is important because I live in an appartment).

Service should be available to me in the middle of February. If you want, I can let people know how it goes.

-Adam

 

[TheDingo]

Just called em. I live in Citrus Heights (right outside Sacto). They said they should be in my area in 6 months... But I'm moving in 6 months.... damn it.
Looks like I have to survive the hell of ATT...

 

[xirtam]

I live in Ames, IA. You suppose they'd run a couple thousand miles of fiber to get to my house?

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

30GB - $49.95, $1.50 per extra GB
55GB - $69.95, $1.50 per extra GB
95GB - $99.95, $0.80 per extra GB

 

[localfinesse]

30GB - $49.95, $1.50 per extra GB
55GB - $69.95, $1.50 per extra GB
95GB - $99.95, $0.80 per extra GB

shoot I would have to pay about $300.00 a month I download sooo much stuff.

 

[TheFirm]

there is no Over gb use its flat rate!

 

[ksherman]

hey you guys-
is it limited to 30GB per month or for forever? it would be a sewwt deal it it was per month... i don't see how i could d/l 1GB per day.... though im not sure because i only have 56k :-( it looks to me like elgin is on their list too... (for WOW). i just can't wait.

 

[wjones]

<< Damn, I live right in Silicon Valley, work for a company that makes fiber-optics comm equipment and I use dial-up! >>



Same here