FTTP - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

TheSpecialist · 03-06-2006, 07:02 PM

Fiber To The Premise new stuff from Verizon. It is not yet in every town, and it will take some time, but when it gets there yeah baby. They are offering 3 speeds right now 5meg down, 2 meg up for 34.95 /month if you have Verizon for home phone, 39.95 if you have another provider for home phone. 15meg down, 2meg up is 44.95 with Verizon home phone, and 49.95 without. Last but not least will be 30meg down, 5meg up that is more for small business at over 100 per month. This is sweet you have your own fiber from your house back to the hub. What that means is unlike cable when you have a high take rate in your neighborhood, it won't slow down when everyone is on. Soon video will follow, including on demand games,shows, and movies......

crash · 03-07-2006, 12:19 PM

That would be a very good thing at my house, and It would be nice to drop one of my T1's at work and use this. I can't wait for good streaming video

JohnR · 03-07-2006, 12:46 PM

My only problems with FTTP is that they are not ready with their TV offering yet, and compared to COX are more money for bandwidth (granted, cable shared across COX's VAN services and not point to point like Verizon)...

I have been debating it as it is in my town...

pops02 · 03-08-2006, 04:44 PM

There is a good article in todays Wall Street Journal about this. The paper states that Verizon will use the existing co-axle in the house, instead of running fiber in the house , to reduce cost by as much as $ 80.00 per house

oke: , and they go on to state that it wont really reduce the speed....yeah right....the re-use of the co-axle cable is B.S, as they are now taking away work from their work force. Verizon better get going, with AT&T's new aquisition of SBC. I thinks real soon you will see Verizon buying the local cable companies around here, like comcast, and adelphia, befor AT&T does, but that remains to be seen

TheSpecialist · 03-08-2006, 04:53 PM

Ok first they will run a fiberoptic drop to the house. They will run cat5e to set up a jack for a router for your computer. They will reuse the coax for the video, unless it is not up to specs. I am presently in a 2 week installation and maintenence class for it. The computer connections have been exstremely fast, with 20 computers working wirelessly on 1 router.

The video won't roll out right away because they have to negotiate franchise fees with each town first.

Wareham Ma will be wired by the end of the summer. Braintree, and Marshfield are on target and almost ready for phone and data rollout.

pops02 · 03-09-2006, 10:29 AM

Any word on Verizon hiring ?

JohnR · 03-09-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

Ok first they will run a fiberoptic drop to the house. They will run cat5e to set up a jack for a router for your computer. They will reuse the coax for the video, unless it is not up to specs. I am presently in a 2 week installation and maintenence class for it. The computer connections have been exstremely fast, with 20 computers working wirelessly on 1 router.

The video won't roll out right away because they have to negotiate franchise fees with each town first.

Wareham Ma will be wired by the end of the summer. Braintree, and Marshfield are on target and almost ready for phone and data rollout.

That alone is not a good indicator of speed as 20 comps working wirelessly on a G connection are probably only realizing 2.5-3 megs of throughput (after overhead and the near exponential loss of available pipe) when 'putin on wireless networks - even a double G wouldn't give you 5 with all of those comps.

Those towns are interesting targets, do the others, besides Braintree, have their own municiple light compaines and provide internet as well?