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.
I had fiber back in Norway, nothing special about that, except is was
FAST but it gave everybody inside the city 100Mb that was really nice
if you had two offices or wanted to transfer or backup some data to a
friend computer :-D
BTW:
