G+_George Kozi Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 That, is the brand new glass fiber box that just got installed in the house... in the cupboard where all the other meters are... at no cost to me... all I can say is: tra-la-la-la-la, while doing an endzone embarrassing dance with lots 'n lots of hip movements. There are 24 ISP's lined up to compete on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Randy Hudson Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 When will it go live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 It is lit up... but the thing is, I don't know if I'll use it. I'm hooked up to cable already. I have a mid range bundle that costs me 70 euro per month for TV, telephony and internet. I'm consistently measuring the speed at 90 down, 8 up, at a 13 ms ping... so... I don't know... should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 the company that put this in is hooking up 5 million homes in The Netherlands (2 million already done) http://www.eindelijkglasvezel.nl/wie-is-reggefiber/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Randy Hudson Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Sorry but I can't read that site George Kozi. What speed does the fiber company offer, and at what cost? And more importantly, do they actually deliver the performance they claim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 the speed is up to the providers. There will be differences depending on the price of the package you buy. I took a look at the list, and most are offering 100 down, but there are a few that have bundles that go up to 500 down... at reasonable prices. One of them offers 1000 down (TV, phone, internet) for 92 euro / month) As for consistency, they all know that if they don't provide what they sell, in no time the regulators will come down on them like a ton of bricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Randy Hudson Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 As it is now I can't hardly use the bandwidth I have. Meaning the server I'm accessing usually can't keep up. I have 300 down and 20 up service and speed tests usually indicate that I'm getting better than that. However here in the US I guess its not heavily regulated and its pretty common for people to actually get less than half of the advertised speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 That shouldn't happen. They sold you something, but deliver half of it.... that's cheating. Would you accept half of a latte at starbucks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe Phillips Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 They cover their butts in the marketing when they advertise it as "up to 50Mbps". The details are always in the fine print or the companies Terms & Conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Christopher Lowery Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I think it has a lot to do with the way the networks are over subscribed. They don't want to spend the money upgrading the network, so they can't guarantee the speed, but you could get up to what you pay for during off peak hours. US ISPs are, for the most part, a bunch of crooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jean-Pierre White Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Christopher Lowery Correct they won't spend the money for the upgrades. But I wouldn't say they can't guarantee speeds, they don't want to guarantee speeds. If they did that someone might hold them to the guarantee, and they couldn't have that!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Christopher Lowery Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Jean-Pierre White There is that, too. Really, though, the fact is that as the network is right now, they're too oversubscribed to guarantee the speeds they're selling. They could fix that by investing some of that unchallenged profit they're pulling in, but without any competition, they don't see any need to actually do that. Having no competition, though, will give them room to innovate...at least, that's what they want us to believe. I can't believe we actually let them do this to us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe Phillips Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Private property ownership can have it's downsides: NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). Tie that with anti-free trade, government endorsed monopolies and we end up with a consumer who has not had his desires met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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