This is surreal: We are getting fibre to the home!!!

[Red Squirrel]

I cannot believe this is actually happening and I never thought I'd live to see this, but it's been officially announced that we will be getting fibre to the home service here! It has TV, internet, and phone in one fibre stand that terminates to a termination box that has it's own battery backup. The internet service will be 50mb down and 30mb up. This is just incredible. Will be a huge upgrade from my current 8/1 connection.

I work for the ISP so I knew about this for a while as I saw each piece of equipment go in, but I could not talk about it till recently. It feels like this is all a dream, I just can't believe we're actually getting this. I'm not sure when the actual installs are going to take place, and they're not quite done running all the cabling throughout the city yet, but the fibre shelves are up and fully operational. I'm so excited, I can't wait to get hooked up!

 

[lxskllr]

That means you're gonna setup a Tor relay, and i2p router, right?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably, and mirror Linux repositories and stuff too, because, why not.

I'd just have to ensure none of that is against the ToS. Sadly it seems servers is against it, as I was planing to cancel my dedicated server and host all my stuff at home now that I have the bandwidth for it. Linux repos may be ok though as I'm not making money off it. I'm hoping they will eventually have some business packages where they do allow that stuff, and since it's fibre, they can easily increase the speeds in the future too. So who knows, I might get to see 100/100 connectivity later down the road like most people in the US seem to get these days. The current offerings are incredible enough as is though.

 

[purbeast0]

fiber.

 

[ViviTheMage]

50mb, weak ...

I am getting my fiber installed next week, 1gb up and 1gb down for $99.99 per month. It'll be fiber to the building and tapped into a GB cisco switch. It's in a lock box so I can't look at it, but mmmmmmmm, so good.

 

[mnewsham]

so this is why you bought that new server, i knew there was a reason!

 

[Red Squirrel]

fiber.

Fiber is a nutritional value found in food. Fibre is glass stands that transmit data using light. edit: Actually I may be wrong on this, I have a fiber bar here and it's called Fibre1. hmmm. The service is called FibreOP and not FiberOP though so either way, it's Fibre.

And yeah, I know everyone in the US gets 100 or even gigabit, but this is a HUGE upgrade from 8/1 adsl, and I'm sure in the future they'll have higher packages as they wont be limited by copper.

Oddly that new server I built does not have anything to do with this per say, as it's only to separate the storage portion of my existing server to a new box and wont have much functional change over what I have now. Though once I build my new VM server and have a better environment it will be nice to be able to connect to it from work to play around with Linux and Windows stuff during down time. Right now VPNing to my house is bloody slow. Even notepad++ lags.

 

[Turbonium]

Where in Canada is this?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Timmins Ontario. This is the service: http://fibreop.ca/info/

 

[Red Squirrel]

They turned up the internet shelf last night, I tested the service today. Damn impressive. The TV is very crystal clear too, way better than cable. Can't wait to get this at home, I'm guessing by end of August. They're not too far from my house as far as running cable goes. Still lot of terminations to do in the cable vault but they work pretty quick. It's awesome to actually see this project coming together.

 

[dighn]

whoa 30 mbps upstream. i am jealous.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah can't wait to use that, in fact I can refine my offsite backup jobs to include more data given I'll be able to upload it faster. My current upload is 1mb and kinda sucks. I have about 1GB of data for my offsite backup job and just the diff alone takes several hours.

Stuff like uploading videos and what not will be way better too. Almost makes me want to start a vblog channel or something. Need to take full advantage of this.

 

[JimmiG]

Congratulations! I'm on 100/10Mb cable now but will get fibre next month (100/100Mb or 250/100Mb). I agree upload rate is a major benefit. Might actually consider one of those cloud backup services now.

 

[kag]

I also went from 7.1 / 1.5 Mbps DSL to 80/30Mbps FibreOp. It's amazing.

 

[LookBehindYou]

Is this real life?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Honestly I'm jealous of the 8/1 you had previously. I'm on dsl at 2.5/.5.
It's like living in the f'ing stone age or something. I can't even get cable.

 

[gorcorps]

What are you going to be paying for it?

 

[Perknose]

Fiber makes your output more regular.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Option to have faster internet is surreal ehh?

Keep in mind that your provider will crippled that speed and only unlock it if you are willing to pay $$$

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I have fiber to the pedestal on my front lawn, and AT&T can only offer me 1.5Mx256K with it. AT&T rocks in my neighborhood. Comcrap only has 22Mx5M.

Hello AT&T, can you hear me now?

 

[mkrohn]

I cannot believe this is actually happening and I never thought I'd live to see this, but it's been officially announced that we will be getting fibre to the home service here! It has TV, internet, and phone in one fibre stand that terminates to a termination box that has it's own battery backup. The internet service will be 50mb down and 30mb up. This is just incredible. Will be a huge upgrade from my current 8/1 connection.

I work for the ISP so I knew about this for a while as I saw each piece of equipment go in, but I could not talk about it till recently. It feels like this is all a dream, I just can't believe we're actually getting this. I'm not sure when the actual installs are going to take place, and they're not quite done running all the cabling throughout the city yet, but the fibre shelves are up and fully operational. I'm so excited, I can't wait to get hooked up!

what is tv and phone?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Jealous. So jealous. How much was it for you (discount included since I assume they give you a discount because you work there.)

 

[Thebobo]

I also went from 7.1 / 1.5 Mbps DSL to 80/30Mbps FibreOp. It's amazing.

Same here except 3.0 to 25/25M and now 80M ish

 

[darkewaffle]

No matter how fast your internet it, it doesn't change the fact that most of the internet is shit. Much ado about nothing imo

 

[mmntech]

We've had 50mb/s cable in our area for a while now, but it's very expensive and still has a data cap. I don't download that much but I had having that artificial barrier. So I trod along with my 15mpbs ADSL, which is unlimited.