On 2022-11-21 22:13, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2022-11-21 20:57, Alex Kink wrote:
They can provide landline over fibre using a POTS adapter for those
who need that.
That should be possible as there are VOIP based phones. They just
won't be as reliable as plain old copper based POTS. In the past few
years our phone has never gone out but the Internet has gone out
several times.
I don't know how the cost of FTTH is supposed to compare to Rogers for
similar speeds. Every time I ask about Fiber I'm told that it isn't
available in my area.
The issue is not just the last mile speed to your house but what is the
backing service provided.
So when you pick your carrier you need to look into how well they
provision their back end.
I have a cottage with a 3Mbit DSL service and the DSL service is rock solid.
The back haul from the fiber connect point on the other hand is little
better than 2 tin cans and a string.
During the last 2 years the summer service has been so bad that I was
seeing throughput from my cottage to anywhere of tens of bits per second.
So back end performance can at times be much more important than the raw
last mile speed.
Fortunately now I have Starlink so I am not worried about how badly the
carriers treat rural Canadians.
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