[Cialug] Fiber Internet

[Neal Daringer]

sounds like something that they should have been doing years ago.
but i guess that may be too much to ask of ma bell.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Neal Daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com> wrote:
> > beforwarned i have heard that qwest is doing major upgrades to their
> > network. none of which, that i have heard, is actually fiber to the home.
> > they are increasing their dsl service speeds to better compete with
> current
> > cable company offerings. of course, i hope i am wrong, for all of our
> sakes.
> > fiber to the home is like the holy grail for internet service. almost
> > impossible to come by and when you have the opportunity to have it you
> must
> > respect it and treat it as though it was your first born child.
>
> Qwest's calls it's fiber upgrades FTTN - Fiber To The Neighbourhood.
> I think that means that they will run fiber to a cabinet in your
> neighborhood, and then run on copper to your home.  Basically, all
> this is doing is bringing the DSLAM closer to your home which allows
> running DSL at speeds faster than the 1.5M most people can get when
> the DSLAM is in the central office.  According to Qwest's web site
> it's not available to me in Ankeny - I wasn't able to find a full
> listing of the cities that they are deploying in though.
>
> http://www.qwest.com/vdsl/learn/vdsl.html
> http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/fiber-optics.html
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