Thank you so much for your detailed responses Mark. Hugely appreciated.
The obvious advantage of overhead fibre is that it will be much faster (and cheaper) to implement than trenching. However, the capacity limitation of the PON network you mention is concerning. But I suppose as long as they can offer up to 100Mb speeds then 99.9% of users will be satisfied. While I would prefer a provider like Octotel to put in a full fibre pair to every house I doubt that would happen within the next year or two. I see University/Walmer Estate is on their 'planned' schedule, but what I've learned after watching all the fibre providers coverage maps over the years is that 'planned' takes ages, and we're not even on 'planned'. Are you sceptical of their being able to offer 100Mb on this PON network? I see a number of users mention LTE-A as a solution but the current range of products on this technology have data limits that are too far too restrictive. My household often hits 200GB in a month and this would be very expensive on LTE-A. That is before we start talking about how the latency problems on LTE limits what we are able to with it. So I’m afraid it’s either ADSL or Fibre for us. We’re now on 28% of the target reached! Let’s try keep the momentum going! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EMERGENCIES: 10111 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood Watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
