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Re:Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt by gnopgnip on Thursday June 14, 2018 @01:57PM (#17313756)
There is new tech like g.fast that enables gigabit speeds over copper wire like an existing phone line for short distances.
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Re:Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt by AboutTheWhisles on Thursday June 14, 2018 @08:29PM (#17316529)
"First released in October 2013, and updated several times since, the DOCSIS 3.1 suite of specifications support capacities of up to 10 Gbit/s downstream and 1 Gbit/s upstream"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS

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Re:Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt by amorphid on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:16PM (#17313981)
I wonder what speeds would be achievable over the ancient copper wire in my building.
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Re:Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt by philjohn on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:35PM (#17314673)
Depends. If it's 50+ years old it'll be fine, sure, some of the joints might not be, but that's not awful to fix.

Then Copper prices went up massively for a while and thinner guage twister pair went in at best, and Aluminium was used at worst.

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