On 2022-11-21 22:13, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2022-11-21 20:57, Alex Kink wrote:
They can provide landline over fibre using a POTS adapter for those who need that.
That should be possible as there are VOIP based phones. They just won't be as reliable as plain old copper based POTS. In the past few years our phone has never gone out but the Internet has gone out several times.
I don't know how the cost of FTTH is supposed to compare to Rogers for similar speeds. Every time I ask about Fiber I'm told that it isn't available in my area.
The issue is not just the last mile speed to your house but what is the backing service provided. So when you pick your carrier you need to look into how well they provision their back end. I have a cottage with a 3Mbit DSL service and the DSL service is rock solid. The back haul from the fiber connect point on the other hand is little better than 2 tin cans and a string. During the last 2 years the summer service has been so bad that I was seeing throughput from my cottage to anywhere of tens of bits per second. So back end performance can at times be much more important than the raw last mile speed. Fortunately now I have Starlink so I am not worried about how badly the carriers treat rural Canadians. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||