nicketynick;198944 Wrote: > I understand that in some areas, Verizon is rolling out FTTH (fibre to > the home). If you're lucky enough to be in one of those areas, I would > think cable would be hard-pressed to outperform fibre, wouldn't it?
I happen to be from Keller, TX, where Verizon did trials on the 'FiOS' (http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ConsumerFiOS/) service (that's their name for FTTH). As soon as I was hooked up I dropped the cable modem service from Charter, as it couldn't compete in terms of the bandwidth I get for the price. I'm on the 15/2 plan (15Mb down, 2Mb up) and have been happy with it. Since I also have phone service I get a small discount, so they're charging me $44.95/month. Charter was charging me $39.99/month for 3Mb/256Kb. The upstream difference has been the most useful to me, as I have to upload documents for my job. It also doesn't hurt when I want to stream full-quality music while I'm away from home, either. With cable I had to reboot the cable modem every couple of weeks for some reason, and had regular outages (seemed like about once a month). With FiOS I've had only two or three outages in the past 2 and 1/2 years (none of which laster longer than an hour). Anyhow, aside from your provider's reliability, the main issues are likely to be latency between your provider and the source server and the server being overloaded. Even though I have 15M/2M service, the network between me and the target really makes a difference (see attached images; Fort Worth is a short hop with low latency, while Miami had about 120ms latency). I stream net radio to my SB1 almost continuously during the day (it keeps me company while I work) and have done so for many hours at a time on my SB2 and SB3, depending on where I am in the house. In all that usage, I've found that most problems are either the server being overloaded, or my neighbor's 2.4GHz phone (my SB2 is in a corner of my house and if my neighbor sits outside talking on the phone it sometimes interrupts the connection). In fairness, though, when Charter's internet was working it was more than sufficient to stream net radio to my Squeezeboxes. But it wasn't capable of maintaining sufficient upstream bandwidth for even a 128Kbps stream (despite supposedly being 256) if I wanted to access Slimserver remotely. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 2467-1a.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2755| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- AubreyCTurnerJr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AubreyCTurnerJr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9795 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34900 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
