Cable Speeds Beat Fiber
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In real world tests, cable is beating fiber speeds in homes.
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@scottalanmiller I assume that's both home connections. I get more Bandwidth and more burst at home with my comcast which can do 40Meg in speedtests (bursts)
but a Bussiness Fiber connection has more speed even at lower bandwidth. a 10Meg Fiber with little latency can easily beat it. at 40Meg Bandwidth fiber connection smokes it. Though I comparing my home connection to government Fiber from Hurricane Electric which is probably considered more of a backbone connection than an ISP (and priced accordingly at multiple thousands per 5meg of connection bandwidth per month).
Funny thing is here we are rural but because of Virginia Tech we get probably some of the best connections in the state. Actually a Data Center for a mail order clothing company moved here from Upstate new york because we have better and cheaper connections. I'm sure part of it is we aren't over saturating the backend gear like big places are.
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It's an article about last mile connections. In the real world, cable is delivering more throughput than fiber. You can't go off of a single test, especially a single test of consumer cable to business fiber at massively different price points. You can get business cable too and it gets extremely fast.
My cable here can top 100Mb/s and latency as low as 6ms - and was able to do this seven years ago!
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Funny thing is here we are rural but because of Virginia Tech we get probably some of the best connections in the state. Actually a Data Center for a mail order clothing company moved here from Upstate new york because we have better and cheaper connections.
Upstate NY has the only LATA in America that was not a part of AT&T and as such is not regulated like the rest of the country and does not have the price and quality protections that the rest of the US enjoys. The 585 Rochester LATA is literally the highest cost, worst connection LATA in the nation and absolutely ridiculous. No business in their right mind would move there. When I was looking at a T1 for Ithaca around 2000 we found that it was cheaper to bring one in from Virginia (Dulles) than it was to get one locally in NY because it would cross a portion of the Rochester LATA.
Pretty much every place in the country has businesses that have relocated out of the Rochester area because of the highly costly and low quality network options.
That is a key reason why NTG, which was started there, will be leaving. There is no value to staying in that area - thanks to being abandoned by the federal government when they laid down the federal communications protection laws.
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Slightly confusing terms, since, at least here in the UK, cable is fibre. The terms cable and fibre refer to the providers (Virgin and BT) rather than the technology. I know a lot of people who have had issues and terrible performance from BT fibre, consumers seem to get treated pretty badly here.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Slightly confusing terms, since, at least here in the UK, cable is fibre. The terms cable and fibre refer to the providers (Virgin and BT) rather than the technology. I know a lot of people who have had issues and terrible performance from BT fibre, consumers seem to get treated pretty badly here.
Interesting. In the US fiber means fiber optic and nothing else. Cable means coaxial copper, the term cable is a specific reference to that technology. Cable television means television over that medium. Cable Internet means an ISP using that medium. Cable and fiber can never be the same thing here.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Slightly confusing terms, since, at least here in the UK, cable is fibre. The terms cable and fibre refer to the providers (Virgin and BT) rather than the technology. I know a lot of people who have had issues and terrible performance from BT fibre, consumers seem to get treated pretty badly here.
Interesting. In the US fiber means fiber optic and nothing else. Cable means coaxial copper, the term cable is a specific reference to that technology. Cable television means television over that medium. Cable Internet means an ISP using that medium. Cable and fiber can never be the same thing here.
this is true. and cable is also MUCH cheaper. i've got a 100 meg connection at mi casa and it costs less than 100 a month.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Upstate NY has the only LATA in America that was not a part of AT&T and as such is not regulated like the rest of the country and does not have the price and quality protections that the rest of the US enjoys.
How many times I gotta say this, completely wrong.
Beside the obvious old GTE system, there is SNET which is related to Bell and Cincinnati Bell which only had the name. Then there is tons of smaller telephone cooperatives in many different states like CoServ here in Texas within the LATA of the old Bell system.
IntraLATA is regulated at the state level. To believe that somehow they are allowed to charge 1000x more than the rest of the state and jack with lines because of "reasons" is patently ridiculous. Frontier is crazy, but they ain't that insane.
Also, Rochester is 974 LATA, covers mostly Frontier with a small smattering of Windstream and local co-ops. 585 is the area code for Rochester/Buffalo, completely different thing. Buffalo is 140 LATA, with Verizon providing the majority of POTS.
