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To: NicoV who wrote (218624)12/2/2006 2:23:03 PM
From: bobs10 of 275872
 
you:

My cable provider is upgrading it's network to be capable of 200 mb/s everywhere by the end 2008, using EuroDocsis 3.0 cablemodems. No fiber to the curb, but it's close (I think less than 100 homes are connencted to the same hub via coax, and those hubs are connected via fiber to the backbone). 200 mb/s is more than enough for a 25 mb/s HD video-on-demand channel.

me:

Wow, I'm impressed. Yeah, no more than 100 homes on coax so they must have driven fiber very far into the system. I had Comcast high speed Internet service that I was paying about $50 per month for. I don't know how many homes were on the node, but I would guess about 500. Obviously service was ridiculous. I switched to Ma Bell for $17 per month and even at 2mbs it's a lot faster than Comcast was. The quality of service has everything to do with how far fiber is pushed into the system, and not some theoretical speed marketing comes up with. Of course I've still got twisted pair telephone service, something I really don't need, so the difference isn't that much. The frustration factor was the big thing. My general dissatisfaction with Comcast caused me to go with Direct satellite despite cable TV being ok.

The problem with VOD is that it can eat up a lot of bandwidth if everyone is watching something different. Let the board know how it works out, I know I'm interested
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