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kiwigtx

kiwigtx

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This advert started recently on our TV stations - advertising the country's largest telecom installer's services. Fibre is where most of the country is headed now.
Certainly faster than VDSL copper lines, but it can be a challenge sometimes. :rolleyes:



How are you connected? Copper, fibre or satellite?
 
ATT fiber, just under 400 up and down. $50 a month with taxes and fees. Works great.
 
Everything over the cable system, Comcast. I’m sure the backhaul is fiber but it delivered to the house on coax.
 
ruffcut said:
Hell, we get our sunshine a day late!
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Same here I think we get about 5 hours of direct sunlight:lol:only reason we have fiber is the electric utilities ran fiber to all their customers.
 
For the past decade, there's been directional boring equipment on every other street corner, installing fiber-optic cable.
Wish I'd have bought stock in Vermeer, or even Ditch-Witch who came late to the game considering their core business.

All that orange tubing on big coils you see- that's fiber optic "inner ducting".
 
However, the company that operates the fiber- formerly Verizon, now Frontier is particularly difficult, even downright nasty to deal with if problems arise.

Charter/Brighthouse who operates the cable is MUCH easier/friendlier to deal with.
 
Here is what I use,no issues,sometimes my internet speed it is so fast I can't keep up with it.
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Out here in the boonies (ok, only a couple miles from town) the cable goons used to charge big $$$
to run a line up to you from the trunk down on the highway - screw 'em.
About 20 years ago, local manager came out and made a deal with me - if I agreed to be the "guinea pig"
for their diagnostics and such for six months, they'd hook me up with the forthcoming fiber optic stuff....
DEAL!
Wound up being a year of all cable services (phone, TV, net) free of charge.
Now, it's a kings' ransom - but it's still the only game in town for any real bandwidth.
 
YY1 said:
However, the company that operates the fiber- formerly Verizon, now Frontier is particularly difficult, even downright nasty to deal with if problems arise.

Charter/Brighthouse who operates the cable is MUCH easier/friendlier to deal with.
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Frontier must REALLY be bad.
 
We have a local Phone co-op providing cable Internet @100Mb. They are rolling out fiber but not in my neighborhood yet. We have 1Gb fiber at work and I have 6 buildings interconnected with 10Gb fiber and 3 others on an MPLS connection since no fiber is in the area yet.
 
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