[NCLUG] DSL Throttling or General Congestion?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:16:50PM -0700, Michael Milligan wrote:
>I worked on a peripheral project for a big telco in Japan... I was
>flabbergasted to learn that they were deploying 100Mb/s (Ethernet) via

QWest is doing 100mbps fiber to the home trials.  I was reading about one,
and you could choose between 1.5mbps and 3mbps Internet service over it,
the rest was reserved for video and phone service.  I was like WTF!

Evelyn told me last week that Verizon is doing FTTH in some areas that is
offering 30mbps down, 5mbps up for something around $180/month.  I'd do
that in a heartbeat, if it were available here.

I've also heard some places in Korea are doing gigabit to the home.

Now if only we could get back that 2 billion dollars that the phone
companies collected over the years with the justification of providing FTTH
by a deadline that has already passed, we could probably run at least some
level of FTTH coverage at a community level.

Sean
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