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Are symmetrical connections common? I hadn't seen that offered until they knocked on my door lol. Was trenching expensive? Here they used the city's utility po
by shanebellone 4y ago
Are symmetrical connections common? I hadn't seen that offered until they knocked on my door lol.
Was trenching expensive? Here they used the city's utility poles. They covered the neighborhood in a couple hours.
- Hikikomori 4y agoShould be common with fiber (not PON) and copper Ethernet. Other technologies like cable, some DSL and PON (typically advertised as ftth) are designed to be asymmetrical, they use a single wire or pair to send data and the spectrum is divided so download gets more.
- CitrusFruits 4y agoYou only typically see a symmetrical connection with fiber. Traditional cable connections have to sacrifice download speed for upload speed at a neighborhood level, so they usually do a roughly 90/10 ratio.
- LinuxBender 4y agoThe trenching was expensive but I have a long driveway and trenched in two conduits for two fibers. The fiber is always underground here as winter is 7 to 9 months of the year and its easier than getting permission from the power company to share their poles as I am in a rural area. This is commonly reversed in cities as digging is often impossible due to overlapping electrical and sewage boundaries and other bureaucratic reasons. Much of the power here is also underground to avoid outages from freezing lines and people hitting power poles. I'm glad I had my power traced out because the 7200 volt line goes right down the middle of my field where I might have trenched in water lines.