
On 2023-03-03 08:42, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
I am not sure that 2.5G is enough of a step to cause me to turn everything over. I am buying 2.5Gbit things when there is little price premium. So far, that amounts to:
- 1.5Gbit down FTTH from Bell [some folks get 3G, I think: oops on the 2.5Gbit step] Rogers offers 2.5Gbit fiber in some places.
Feel free to correct me but I believe that all the "optical" and co-axial cable based services are shared(GPON). So you could be sharing your 2.5Gb with up to 100 other people and if everybody decides to download a few hundred GB of video files at the same time you could be seeing speeds like 25Mb. So last mile bit rate is almost always much greater than the bandwidth that is available from the end node(home) to the core(151 front). I have seen 6Mbit DSL reduced to hundreds of bps by chronic back-haul congestion. So a fiber/cable modems buffering with a 1Gb output may be enough to cover the practical bandwidth available on a reasonably loaded network. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||