A Bazillon bits per second! I have it! You don't!

[TomSeller]

It is true that when you buy a house these days, connection speed is a factor. Higher speeds actually improve the value, or at least help sell it.

 

[murphy1244]

Heck CM you can probably read this before I even write it. How much to install?

 

[hutchman]

In the city I have Comcast 100mbs cable modem. The land that we will be moving too has 4G LTE only so every bit will be metered

 

[Coyote machine]

It is true that when you buy a house these days, connection speed is a factor. Higher speeds actually improve the value, or at least help sell it.

Absolutely right! I called VTel on and off for about 5 years inquiring of their back end engineering group begging for DSL service. One time I called and they finally said they would be willing to see if they could get a decent signal to me. I was over 19,5xx+ feet from the switch. They had said forever it was too far from the switch. I told them to bring another switch closer, that unless we had DSL service our real estate, among other things was basically worthless because people would make their buying decisions based on what was available to their homes.
Then came 911, and in the aftermath people were flocking to the remote areas near me to get away from places like NYC and Boston. We had DSL by then, and people started dumping serious $ into farmland and building monster houses with their big city money. So DSL played a big part in making my area what I refer to as New Jersey north.:confused3::thumbdown:

Heck CM you can probably read this before I even write it. How much to install?

Murph I read it before you even thought about writing it!:laughing:

Install cost, now that's where it becomes a real possible snag;
now wait for it......









cost of install:









*FREE!!!!



* But only for me Murph; that's right, with one exception I'm the first with fiber in my area, with some guy who's the editor of some PC magazine having got the jump on me. He's lucky to have gotten there first, but you know how pushy the folks from elsewhere can be.

Fact is it's FREE upgrade to ALL VTel customers!

In the city I have Comcast 100mbs cable modem. The land that we will be moving too has 4G LTE only so every bit will be metered

Yikes, Comcast, had it in my CT home. It's also available down on the paved highway at the end of my road. They'll NEVER come up my road now that VTel brought fiber. I dislike Comcast immensely for a whole bunch of reasons too lengthy to detail here.
Where you move to demand they bring similar service through your legislature. The more potential customers who make it an issue, the more it will become available.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks for your contribution!

Did the monarchy fund any small utility tractor and implement subsidies for youz guys too?

 

[Coyote machine]

I am 62 miles from the nations capital as the crow flies.

I have no fiber, DSL, cable or 4g LTE sustained offering in my area. There are two fiber trunks within a 1/2 from our location and multiple cable, DSL runs within a mile.

We are part of the strategy for the last mile, wireless. I wonder how many in the nation fit into that category?

It's pretty pathetic to not have "cable" plus like speeds standard through out every household in the nation.

That's unfortunate. And, wireless will never be able to compete with fiber optic or even cable/DSL.
This country does need to move into the first world with much better equalized speed availability and service too. We lag other countries around the world; we should be technology leaders and innovators. It IS a pathetic situation for sure.:mur:

My F.O. modem delivers the new speeds up to 1Gig/sec, but that gets cut when trying to use my laptop in my living room. There, due to the limits of my several year old wireless card I drop to the 24Mbps speed previously unavailable to my residence because of switch proximity, etc.
My solution will be to move the modem from my office to the living room and then put a switch at one of the modem ports to feed all the laptops with hardwired connections. I may have to move the refrigerator closer too, and maybe even a bathroom too, come to think of it.

 

[Coyote machine]

Did the monarchy fund any small utility tractor and implement subsidies for youz guys too?

Next month. I'm really tired of waiting for my personal 'bailout'! I mean what were they thinking with 0% forever.:confused3::hissyfit:

 

[JerryK]

I just upgraded to DSL about a year ago. I am zooming at about 370K/sec download. I used to have dial-up... a 56k modem that gave me about 4.7K/sec download speed.. I have a hard time comprehending mega's let alone anything up by a gig or more.... [[ ]]

 

[TomSeller]

I just upgraded to DSL about a year ago. I am zooming at about 370K/sec download. I used to have dial-up... a 56k modem that gave me about 4.7K/sec download speed.. I have a hard time comprehending mega's let alone anything up by a gig or more.... [[ ]]

Just tell yourself that KB is faster than GB and you will be fine.

 

[Coyote machine]

I just upgraded to DSL about a year ago. I am zooming at about 370K/sec download. I used to have dial-up... a 56k modem that gave me about 4.7K/sec download speed.. I have a hard time comprehending mega's let alone anything up by a gig or more.... [[ ]]

K: 1000/bits/sec M:million/bit/sec G:BILLION/bits/sec.

Look at it this way: If we both took rockets to the moon, starting from the same launch pad, I'd be there now, and you'd be there, well in a thousand years, give or take a light year or two. Feel better now?