Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout
by njs12345 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:04PM
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We have a lot of fibre-to-the-cabinet in the UK, which means you may only have copper for a few hundred metres. It's obviously nowhere near as good as fibre to the home, but I think lumping it in with plain old DSL is a bit unfair - a lot of people get 60+mbps down and 18+mbps up which isn't too shabby internationally.
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Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout
by Xixi on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @12:33PM
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I used to have optical fiber in a brand new building in Osaka: the fiber was actually only going to the building, then it was RJ45 (or something very similar, I'll admit never trying to play with it).
It was much faster, and far more reliable than fios by Verizon that I have now in NYC...