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I got fiber!

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Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Fiber???

As in DSL? SDSL? Faster then a speeding bullet? We're cable people on this end of town...Always fast and reliable. (For those of you who don't know, Nik and I are about as close to neighbors - maybe 5 miles if that, apart) as you can hope for on OPF)
 
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Nikolai Sklobovsky

New member
Initially I had Verizon aDSL (1.5/0.3), a couple years ago I replaced it with Adelphia cable (3/1), some time ago it became Time Warner cable (5/1) and yesterday finally upgraded to fiber optics at 15/2.
 
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Anil Mungal

New member
Nikolai Sklobovsky said:
Finally Verizon made its move and hooked us up to it FiOS.
As of yesterday I'm surfing 15 down, 2 up :)
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Nicolas Claris said:
At home, in Bordeaux, DSL2:
Attainable bitrate 1352 kb/s (up) 22813 kb/s (down) 8-O)
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Nik doesnt state his units, so I'm sure thats why there is a large discrepancy. I assume its Megabits/s which makes 15000 (or 15360) kb/s download and 2000 (or 2048) kb/s upload. Comparable numbers that are somewhat closer in magnitude now.
 
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Nikolai Sklobovsky

New member
Anil Mungal said:
Nik doesnt state his units, so I'm sure thats why there is a large discrepancy. I assume its Megabits/s which makes 15000 (or 15360) kb/s download and 2000 (or 2048) kb/s upload. Comparable numbers that are somewhat closer in magnitude now.
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Yeah, I better do clarify:)

Box on my wall in the garage:

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Saturday Speedtest.Net test results:



HTH
 
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Nikolai Sklobovsky

New member
Nicolas,
that's pretty good!

Here's my LA test from work (would be nice to have that at home):



and here's from work to Paris:



I guess transatlantic can get even the best of us :)
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Wow! not bad at all!

It's a pitty that in France upload is kept low… I guess they don't want people to send to many "heavy" mails or being able to set-up fast FTP servers at home (to protect bandwidth, but also PtoP)…
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Well,

With Cable, we have a download of 3901 and an upload of 463 kb/sec, home through WIFI, so unless I was runnig a server, the fiber would be a downgrade!

Asher
 
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Nikolai Sklobovsky

New member
Asher Kelman said:
Well,

With Cable, we have a download of 3901 and an upload of 463 kb/sec, home through WIFI, so unless I was runnig a server, the fiber would be a downgrade!

Asher
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Man, you're apparently at 4/0.4 mbps now, I can's see how come swithing to 15/2 mbps (i.e. 4-5 times faster) is a downgrade..
BTW, "business" rates start from 20/5 and go up to 50/5.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Nikolai Sklobovsky said:
Man, you're apparently at 4/0.4 mbps now, I can's see how come swithing to 15/2 mbps (i.e. 4-5 times faster) is a downgrade..
BTW, "business" rates start from 20/5 and go up to 50/5.
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Yes you're correct from the math standpoint but hey, we have gourmet bits here!

Still, how much does this proletarian service cost?

Asher
 
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Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Not for us

We have the service at the office through Time Warner and it's the same price as the house but much faster. When I finish these blasted tax things, I will run the speed test here.
 
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