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I don't trust google which is why I have never used Chrome.
Do you trust fiber optics though?
Do you trust fiber optics though?
Heya PG. :2wave: Arent fiber optics suppose to be faster? They did that monopolizing on our area with Cable TV. Comcast basically holds the Higher ground so to speak. We use to have US Cable. TCI Cable. Then Warner Bros Cable.
Isn't Satellite faster too? Also I thought they were coming out with the Net 2.
Wait, the United States' digital infrastructure is not carried through fiber optics yet?
It is still limited by the hardware. There is a major fiber optic line that my city is tapped into--the equivalent of a data oil pipeline. The people I know who actually have access to internet over it say it is a "little bit better than what we did have, but no big deal". For consumers, it is not that much difference if your porn loads at 3 times the speed because you can only get your zipper open so fast. The real upside is for businesses/government who traffic in huge volumes of data. The city has been bouncing around the idea of buying supercomputers and putting them onto the fiberoptic grid and lease their use to businesses like an internet cafe of sorts as a way to lure in more high-tech companies/researchers.
Running it into people's homes is very time consuming and expensive. The feeder lines go underground to protect them as they are more vulnerable than cable to weather/damage which is a logistical nightmare when you are having to trench through asphalt and concrete.
Most of ours isn't either if you live outside of the GTA. Apparently their cable/internet providers are even worse than ours.
Sure. My town is spending a mint on creating a network to replace cable/telephone lines. They should be finished by the time I am 214 years old.
I don't live the GTA and mine is fiber.
And, no, never. No one can ever be worse than Rogers.
Have you ever tried to torrent anything?
Heya PG. :2wave: Arent fiber optics suppose to be faster? They did that monopolizing on our area with Cable TV. Comcast basically holds the Higher ground so to speak. We use to have US Cable. TCI Cable. Then Warner Bros Cable.
Isn't Satellite faster too? Also I thought they were coming out with the Net 2.
I get a little confused on that exact terminology as different people use different ways to describe it. I have downloaded rar files and had to do all that crap to extract them and piece them together, and I briefly used some variation of limewire but I forget the name of it, but beyond that, no. If I download something, I want it ready to use the second it arrives in the proper format.
It's because I live out in the ****ing boonies. it would cost them so much to run fiber optics to my place that they'd have to charge me $1000/month just to recoup their investment. hell, I can't even get traditional cable because I am "too far" from the main road. So I am stuck with satelite DSL for internet.
Wait, the United States' digital infrastructure is not carried through fiber optics yet?
Oh, gotcha. So what does that make it, two or three years till completion then? :2wave:
It's because I live out in the ****ing boonies. it would cost them so much to run fiber optics to my place that they'd have to charge me $1000/month just to recoup their investment. hell, I can't even get traditional cable because I am "too far" from the main road. So I am stuck with satelite DSL for internet.
That's why you have never tried to download 10s (sometimes even hundreds) of gigabytes of files from torrents like most people now.
With things like AT&T U-verse (wireless TV-internet) they'll probably start to eliminate ground lines. Landline phones and cables will become outdated technology.
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