Re: FIOS Router

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
Sadly, I have only the 50/20 FiOS service. I would love to get 100/100. Where do I sign up. My initial installation used MoCA. It would not reliably deliver 50Mbps on tcp-based download tests. (coax network brand new, very small). Test results were erratic, typically between 30 and

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
As tedious as the downstream can be, engineering the upstream path of a cable plant is worse. A lot of older systems were never designed for upstream service. Even if the amps are retrofitted, the plant is just not tight enough. Desirably, fiber should be pushed deeper; the quantity of

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
The push to dumb down the definition is not only to benefit the legacy providers. It also benefits the politicians. A lower standard means that a greater quantity of citizens can be deemed to have been given broadband. The politicians will claim that they have served more Americans...

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
CON: active devices in the OSP. On 8/26/2009 12:06 PM, Jack Bates wrote: jim deleskie wrote: I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to homes, it's outdated before we even finish. I disagree. I

Re: CRS-3

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
Forget Linksys: Didn't Peter Lothberg's mom have a CRS1 in her basement already? :-) She said it was great for drying her clothes. If she gets the CRS-3, will she be able to dry her clothes even faster? On 3/9/2010 11:54 AM, David Hubbard wrote: The article about this in the tech section

Re: CRS-3

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
On 3/9/2010 9:19 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Brian Feenybfe...@mac.com wrote: So who is going to be the first to deploy these? http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html - Download the entire Library of Congress in just over 1 second - Stream every

Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

2010-04-29 Thread Robert Enger - NANOG
1) The capacity that a campus has into I2 or NLR is different than the BW the campus purchases from their commercial provider(s). 2) The commercial BW test sites are not optimized for speed. They do not have unlimited capacity network connections. And, they have not tuned their network