Fiberoptic

AgitatedRiot

Fiberoptic cable is being laid In my neighborhood. I didn't know they were going to dig up the lawn. It's just an easement. I have a french drain running right next to where they are digging. I informed them about it and told them to either miss or fix it. I am still excited about them, saying Gbs speed. With me, only 200 Mbs downloads am excited and upset at the same time.

nonesuch00

AgitatedRiot said:

Fiberoptic cable is being laid In my neighborhood. I didn't know they were going to dig up the lawn. It's just an easement. I have a french drain running right next to where they are digging. I informed them about it and told them to either miss or fix it. I am still excited about them, saying Gbs speed. With me, only 200 Mbs downloads am excited and upset at the same time.

I got fibreoptic back in February and even massive gigabytes worth of data like downloading UE takes less than a half hour. I remember way back in 2008 people getting fibreoptic in parts of the DFW metroplex.

Gordig

I moved recently into a house within CenturyLink's service area, and I've been very happy to have fiber internet. I'd be glad to be free of Comcast even if the quality and speed were identical, but it's been much better, and cheaper as well.

AgitatedRiot

nonesuch00 said:

AgitatedRiot said:

Fiberoptic cable is being laid In my neighborhood. I didn't know they were going to dig up the lawn. It's just an easement. I have a french drain running right next to where they are digging. I informed them about it and told them to either miss or fix it. I am still excited about them, saying Gbs speed. With me, only 200 Mbs downloads am excited and upset at the same time.

I got fibreoptic back in February and even massive gigabytes worth of data like downloading UE takes less than a half hour. I remember way back in 2008 people getting fibreoptic in parts of the DFW metroplex.

Fiberoptics had come a long way since 1975, when NORAD was the only commuter with fiber-optic connections on base. Do You Want To Play A Game?

hacsart

I can remember in 1991 or so helping install IBM fiber optic mainframe cable to replace the old thick bus and tag cables in the datacentre.. The big thing we had to be really aware of was cable routing and the cable minimum bend radius. I have a small sectionof thing fiber optic cable (2mm) in my souvenir pile..

richardandtracy

I can remember the fuss in the 1970's when British Telecom installed the first fibre optic cable in the UK for domestic telephony between Taunton and Bridgewater in Somerset. It went an enormous 15 miles without a single repeater or amplifier. Stupendous leap forward in technology over a hitherto unheard-of distance, and BT had to explain how the voice could be sent down the fibre as flashes of light and how the analogue information could be recreated from the digital flashes. Absolutely awesome, it was... Think they could multiplex up to two calls down the same fibre when first installed. Regards, Richard.

AllenArt

Gordig said:

I moved recently into a house within CenturyLink's service area, and I've been very happy to have fiber internet. I'd be glad to be free of Comcast even if the quality and speed were identical, but it's been much better, and cheaper as well.

Amen. How I wish we were getting fiber so I could ditch Comcast. LOL

Totte

I remember the Interop fair in SanJose 1991, the theme was Fiber to the desktop as copper was just 10 Mbit/s  10Base-X or 10Base.2 Ethernet.
I got a new fiber here in April (finally got rid of the "Cable TV coax based internet" that was far from good, main issue was jumboframes (look that up if you don't know what that is), and an overall slow speed. Now with 500/500 I'm pretty happy.

 

AgitatedRiot

Totte said:

I remember the Interop fair in SanJose 1991, the theme was Fiber to the desktop as copper was just 10 Mbit/s  10Base-X or 10Base.2 Ethernet.
I got a new fiber here in April (finally got rid of the "Cable TV coax based internet" that was far from good, main issue was jumboframes (look that up if you don't know what that is), and an overall slow speed. Now with 500/500 I'm pretty happy.

 

I would like that speed too.  Even with 200Mbs, it seems like these forums load at 28.8kbs

daveso

i got fiber in February. 600/600, and now with my Eero 6+ mesh router system, I get that to all my wired stuff and 400+ wieless across my entire house. There is very little dropoff.

WendyLuvsCatz

the only fiber I get is Metamucil

nonesuch00

AgitatedRiot said:

nonesuch00 said:

AgitatedRiot said:

Fiberoptic cable is being laid In my neighborhood. I didn't know they were going to dig up the lawn. It's just an easement. I have a french drain running right next to where they are digging. I informed them about it and told them to either miss or fix it. I am still excited about them, saying Gbs speed. With me, only 200 Mbs downloads am excited and upset at the same time.

I got fibreoptic back in February and even massive gigabytes worth of data like downloading UE takes less than a half hour. I remember way back in 2008 people getting fibreoptic in parts of the DFW metroplex.

Fiberoptics had come a long way since 1975, when NORAD was the only commuter with fiber-optic connections on base. Do You Want To Play A Game?

That movie is streaming free now, I think on FreeVee.

nonesuch00

I remember plugging in those fibreoptic cables into those fibreoptic storage cabinets we'd use on the SPARC Enterprise Servers at work. Sounds funny, but I migrated terabytes of data striped across arrays of 2GB SCSI disks into these (then) new massive fibreoptic storage cabinets. It felt like I was copying data from old floppy disks into modern storage it was so old.