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

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Arcadio said:
I came to post this. This sounds like a thread from 2010. It's just fiber.
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Exactly. This was genuinely bizarre to read. At first I thought it was a joke. It's like someone posting how excited they are to be getting their first mobile phone...
 
Well this is Canada... some places are lucky to even have ADSL. Tech is about 10 years behind everyone else here. My city is one of the few that will actually have fibre to the home. There's a few other places that have it already but it's not like the states where the majority of people have it. There's a new project in BC going on to provide gigabit internet, too.
 
Red Squirrel said:
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!
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Very nice!!!

I hope you can enjoy the benefits soon!!
 
Just hooked up to the lab setup at work. :biggrin: The local loop is very local... it's literally a fibre patch cord plugged straight into the equipment rack.

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I could get that at home if I wanted to, but I'll stick with 50/30 which is still incredibly fast compared to my existing 8/1 which is more like 4/1 lately.
 
HAL9000 said:
Exactly. This was genuinely bizarre to read. At first I thought it was a joke. It's like someone posting how excited they are to be getting their first mobile phone...
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This times 2.

People are getting similar speeds with cable these days.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Just hooked up to the lab setup at work. :biggrin: The local loop is very local... it's literally a fibre patch cord plugged straight into the equipment rack.

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I could get that at home if I wanted to, but I'll stick with 50/30 which is still incredibly fast compared to my existing 8/1 which is more like 4/1 lately.
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That is pretty damn good. At home how much do you pay? I really wish I could get such speeds but Comcast owns all the area here and they are pretty expensive for higher speeds.
 
Are they going to abandon all of the copper phone lines or just add to the disaster area underground?


Overhead lines are nice too!
 
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Just got fibre recently, though I was on 100/10 Mb cable before that. Main difference is that it only costs half as much now - just $35/month for 100/10 Mb. Can get higher speeds but what's the point other than bragging rights?

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JimmiG said:
Just got fibre recently, though I was on 100/10 Mb cable before that. Main difference is that it only costs half as much now - just $35/month for 100/10 Mb. Can get higher speeds but what's the point other than bragging rights?

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That's a good price I was pay 60 a month for Comcast business class and it was only 25/5.
 
sze5003 said:
That is pretty damn good. At home how much do you pay? I really wish I could get such speeds but Comcast owns all the area here and they are pretty expensive for higher speeds.
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The package I am going for will be $170/mo or so. That includes TV and home phone. Which is not too bad when you consider that TV alone through cable is like $70/mo. I also took the highest package. There is basically 3 package to choose from the first is 20/15 internet and very basic TV, the middle is 50/30 with a bit more TV and then there's the top one with HBO, TMN and lot of included on demand. I don't watch much TV but figured why not.

Papa Hogan said:
Are they going to abandon all of the copper phone lines or just add to the disaster area underground?

Overhead lines are nice too!
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This service is only available to people that are fed by overhead wires, so lot of the copper will stay. Even the overhead copper will probably stay for a very long time until everyone switches over but some people who are happy with their copper service may not want to switch as they wont see a reason to. Though, once you switch you cannot go back to copper, so their goal is to probably phase that stuff out eventually.

Interesting though as the fibre feeders actually have like 30 customers per strand then it physically splits off at cabinets to individual strands by splitting the wave lengths. So it's still technically dedicated right to the CO but much lighter in terms of cabling. Probably costs less for a fibre cable than the equivalent copper one to feed the same amount of customers. They also don't have to pump air in the cables because it does not matter if they get wet. Those air dryers typically take a 30 amp circuit and each CO will have one so I imagine it cost a lot to run those.
 
I heard they'll be bumping all the packages up. So 50 will be 80, 80 will be 100 or something.

I hope they bump the upload too, not to complain since it's going to be 30 times faster than my ADSL, but while they're at it.... :biggrin:

Personally I'd love 100/100, and be allowed to run servers. I'd be willing to pay a couple hundred per month for that. I already pay a bit over 100/mo to lease a server, and if I was to lease a server that's of semi modern specs like 8GB of ram and a couple TB and a quad core it would cost like $500/mo. So if I could pay a couple hundred per month and be allowed to run a server then I could just build a beast of a server without paying extra per month per spec like when you lease.

But beggars can't be choosers, I'm happy to even be getting this at all. May not be able to run servers but at least I can backup stuff to/from online servers much faster now. With DSL I have to really pick and choose what I want to backup or the job can run for weeks while making my net unusable.
 
The equipment:


Alcatel ONT and UPS (I added that board myself, I don't think they provide it, but they do provide the little shelf)


phone splitter, one wire going down to the patch panel (just below that)


Modem/router. The TVs and my firewall plug into this. That plugs into the ONT.


The HD box / PVR.
 
Hehe no, but I might do something like that, I'll have to read up more about it and make sure there's no liability issues. I might also make a Linux mirror/seed box or something. When I do download torrents I like to let them seed a long time too. I opened my torrent client and was seeding at almost 30mbps lol.

You can tell when I swapped the cables around by this graph.



The blank is because I had turned off all network traffic and ran a couple speed tests, then I turned the torrent client back on.

The internet, TV and phone are all completely separate too. One cannot affect the other. I can be recording several HD shows at once on the PVR and my internet will still be the same speed.
 
Awesome, man.
Some areas around here have just recently gotten fiber too, a huge leap from the garbage DSL or cable that is provided to the rural areas.

I have an 18 meg cable which is good enough for me, my monthly allowance is massive, so no complaints.
 
Congrats. I wish I could get faster internet. AT&T dropped me from 6meg to 1.5meg. They are really pissing me off.
 
I saw a truck outside that was from a company that got part of that government internet handout. Looked like they were putting fiber on all the poles outside. That probably explains why the internet has been going out for a half hour or so a day for the last year.

Not sure if I care so much though. Sure it goes faster but it costs more for anything faster than cable. Maybe it's google fiber though, the data center is a mile from me. Would be nice if we had more competition.
 
What's the name of the company?

Might be a contracting company that your ISP hired. So you may possibly be getting fibre service in the near future.



This is pretty crazy, I'm actually sustaining a bit over 50mbps. The dips you see in the graph are the software screwing up, I don't know why it does that. It will randomly show a value in the very low negatives. Has been doing that since I upgraded to pfsense 2
 
How many days until RS's thread about the isp throttling bandwidth, and the nastygram threatening to cut off service? :^D
 
Dont have Fibre to my house yet, probably another 2 yrs wait, however they do have VDSL, so I got connected with that for 30/10 150GB p/mth cap...

Its sweet downloading at 4mb/s
 
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