orezok
Elite Member
They may want to rethink that with the new g.fast system that delivers 750 mB/sec over standard copper phone lines.
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You don't have a high speed Internet connection??
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They may want to rethink that with the new g.fast system that delivers 750 mB/sec over standard copper phone lines.
Huge breakthrough in blazing fast internet speeds - May. 16, 2 16
k0ua
Epic Contributor
I would not hold my breath on that one.. "the boxes on the street cost about $70,000".. Um hum... what are they? Fiber fed? A box for each house?
Point is no actual information was given in this article.. I smell smoke and mirrors. Or a VERY short 750meg over copper system.. In other words "from the $70,000 box on the street" What ever the heck that is to get to your house over an existing drop. All well and fine, how does the backbone work? I smell Bovine Excrement..
k0ua
Epic Contributor
Here you go.. speed vs. distance for Gfast. Looks like that 750 or 1 gig speed is about 100 meters and 150Meg could go about 250 meters.
This is a copper to the curb distribution system not Central office to your home.. You will still need fiber to feed the box out at the curb or subdivision common point. This is where the big money will come in.
100 m, FTTB 500-1000 Mbit/s
100 m 500 Mbit/s
200 m 200 Mbit/s
250 m 150 Mbit/s
This is a copper to the curb distribution system not Central office to your home.. You will still need fiber to feed the box out at the curb or subdivision common point. This is where the big money will come in.
100 m, FTTB 500-1000 Mbit/s
100 m 500 Mbit/s
200 m 200 Mbit/s
250 m 150 Mbit/s
orezok
Elite Member
Remember when you got your first internet connection. It was probably 1200 baud. Things change over time and now we are in the gigabyte world. This is the first iteration of this technology and it is not likely to stay where it is today.
The first IBM personal computers cost $5 to $10,000 in todays dollars, had a whopping 48 mb of memory and a floppy disc.
G.fast will most likely improve and drop substantially in cost.
The first IBM personal computers cost $5 to $10,000 in todays dollars, had a whopping 48 mb of memory and a floppy disc.
G.fast will most likely improve and drop substantially in cost.
RobS
Super Member
Our new system is fiber all the way to each house. There is a small box on the outside of the house that converts to cat5 copper.
kcflhrc
Veteran Member
This is the technology I install. Fiber to the outside of the house and then a Calix unit to convert from fiber to copper. It works great.
dickfoster
Elite Member
Heck, I remember using 300 baud acoustic modems, 1200 baud was uber fast by comparison then they doubled it to a whopping 2400, wow. I don't remember the first PCs having anywhere near 48 Mbytes of memory, it was more like 1 Meg tops and you needed a memory manager to handle that. Most PCs had 256KB of RAM. The DOS upper limit to addressing hard drive space topped out at somewhere around 20 MB. My first personal PC had a 30MB hard drive that needed to be partitioned into a 20 and a 10 so DOS could deal with it. I remember wondering what we could ever do to fill up the first 1 Gig hard drives, now I can just barely scrape by with 10Gig a month. LOL
orezok
Elite Member
Yeah, you're right. I confused it with my first Apple II which only has 48kB of memory and a single 143k floppy.
rekees4300
Elite Member
The next big thing in a few years will be 5G ... currently in the test phase ... rumored as being 100X the speed of 4G !
buickanddeere
Super Member
2-1/4 miles from the central office. Have medium speed high speed at that distance. Pings at 5meg but sustained download runs 700K to a Meg depending.