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It's a shared medium and can never reach the qualities of wired networking, though it might get better enough that we don't notice it as much as we do now. This
by cm3 10y ago
It's a shared medium and can never reach the qualities of wired networking, though it might get better enough that we don't notice it as much as we do now. This reminds me of efforts like xDSL G.fast. People only talk about approaching the speeds of common fiber configurations, but miss the point of very low latency in FTTH and easy upgrade to, say, 10 or 40 Gbs, whereas that would require a technological enhancement in DSL or CABLE. With fibre it would only require switching out the "modem" and network gear in the local uplink station (hut).
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- Tiksi 10y agoEh, you're not gonna get 10 or 40Gbps over most FTTH installs. Most run GPON with beam splitters which maxes out at 2.5Gbps/line. To get 10/40/100 you need OS1/2 singlemode or OM3/4 multimode fiber which I've never seen used in residential/small business FTTP setups.
- cm3 10y agoGPON isn't used everywhere, but it's used a lot, yes. Still, getting 2.5Gbps, exclusively, with low latency isn't possible with the other connections (yet?).
- Tiksi 10y agoNo doubt fiber is definitely the way to go if it's an option. Other than fiber, the closest you'll get is DOCSIS 3 theoretically runs at ~1gig downstream. Anecdotally, I've had Fios for a couple years and get faster than advertised speeds consistently and never had an outage, so I'm all about fiber. I think it's due time that having an actual fiber drop becomes as common place as having a phone line or cable line. With how much people use the internet these days, it makes sense to have it's own connection instead of piggybacking on whatever physical connection people already have.