I live in Newton and FIOS always seems to be slow on Sundays. jay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <b...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >> bounces+blu=nedharvey....@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman >> >> > Coax vs. fibre doesn't matter until weather gets into the exterior >> > junction boxes. This is bad for Comcast since their coax connectors are >> > cheap and they corrode. This is a non-issue for FiOS since nothing is >> > exposed to the weather. > > I formerly believed the same thing - because this is what we're taught in EE > classes - that the fibre should be essentially free from noise or > interference, while the wire will probably be more susceptible to > interference, which most of the time should be fine, but the fibre should be > more resilient to noise or interference in adverse conditions. (Solar > flares, cold or hot temperatures, precipitation, wind, etc) > > Until I switched from cable to fios. Now I can say, from an end user > perspective, there's no perceptible difference. They both work almost > perfectly, almost all the time. They both have a slightly increased rate of > scrambling data, or TV picture garbling, during adverse weather. They both > don't have those problems very frequently. Just occasionally. > > If there's any reliability difference between cable vs fios, it's not > noticeable. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
