On 8/27/07, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27/08/07, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2007 17:37:48, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > Fibre is infinitely superior. > > > > > > I have been with Telstra Cable since they arrived and have had only > > > one semi-serious unplanned outage. About an hour one morning. It was > > > fixed pretty quickly, after I told them about it. Otherwise it's been > > > 'dial-tone' reliability. > > > > You do realise that Telstra Cable is coax (copper), not fibre, right? > > Hybrid. Coax to big green box (not the smaller green boxes outside > your houses) then fibre from there. I thought it was fibre to the power-pole and only the last 10m being co-ax. I stand corrected. Anyway it's what's known as DOCSIS, [1] and not the ADSL [2] kluge which uses the ordinary copper wires connected to the POTS exchange. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Subscriber_Line
ok Telstra Cable is somewhat more expensive than some of the ADSL connections offered by the retailers Telecom use, but imho it's a far superior product. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
