On 27/08/07, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Mon, August 27, 2007 7:26 pm, yuri 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. > > > > yeah thats hardly fibre to the door is it?
It's fibre to the neighbourhood, which is lucky for our friend in Linwood, but sux for those of us in West Melton or Lyttelton. Yuri
