It's too bad that you had problems with Verizon. I actually have had more problems with Comcast than my current fios conneciton. The cable modem would drop for days at a time. :/
I am pretty sure it's just the ONT (the box on the side of my house) and the upstream equipment that prevents me going to 1Gbps. This is the Verizon stance on the equipment currently. Verizon splits the signal 32 ways through refraction, but the fiber itself is capable of Gbps data. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16202 There's also a 10G-EPON standard approved last year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10G-EPON On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:40 -0500, Shirona A. Gunawardhana wrote: > Mitch Harper (city council) is working hard on getting Google to work > with For Wayne. The fiber that we currently have is mostly residential > quality that can support up to 100Mbps but Google is talking about > commercial grade 1000Mbps. The FIOS connection I had was so poorly > done and I had to call Verizon several times (I was out of service for > days sometimes) before giving it up for Comcast. Comcast upload speeds > are not that great but it works without interruption. > > Shirona > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Gilson > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:04 PM > To: Fort Wayne Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [fwlug] Google gigabit access in Fort Wayne > > > > > Fort Wayne actually does have fiber. How much, I don't know for sure, > but it is there. > > Rich > > On Feb 17, 2010 2:53 PM, "Don Pobanz" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > This sounds interesting. However, to my knowledge Fort Wayne > does not own much infrastructure that could be used for this. > (I have only lived in FW a year and a half so could be wrong). > They don't have electric utilities like some municipalities > nor cable TV. I don't know if the traffic signals are > connected via fiber. > > I'm sure google would want fiber in place or if not in place, > then at least poles or conduit where fiber could be installed > at a minimal cost. Is there any chance that the city of Fort > Wayne has that? > > Don Pobanz > Former Municipality employee (working in communications) in > Hastings Nebraska. > > > > On 2/17/2010 11:02 AM, MikeD (2) wrote: > > > > Hello Luggers, > > > > Check this out: http://www.goog... > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://for... > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
