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Comcast is rolling out Docsis 4.0. I’d hardly call that Stone Age OTOH, I have a rental where most people in the building have opted to cancel Google Fiber in
by acchow 3y ago
Comcast is rolling out Docsis 4.0. I’d hardly call that Stone Age
OTOH, I have a rental where most people in the building have opted to cancel Google Fiber in favor of Comcast (even tho Comcast is more expensive) because Google Fiber has had multiple outages each year.
- happytiger 3y agoIt’s still Stone Age, sorry. Their business is squeezing the most out of old cable infrastructure not building next generation infrastructure to support our increasingly critical digital future. Comcast is rolling Docsys 4.0 out to support, “300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1-gig all the way up to 2-gig” service. Their words, not mine. Fiber easily supports 10-gig, or 100-gig with easy upgrades. And here’s the point: that single strand of fiber can support, without replacement and in a single strand, around 44 Tbps. That's not something cable companies like Comcast want you to know. Even if they squeeze 10 or 20 gig out of this aging cable lines, it’s holding society back. People don’t need it. But a T-1 (1.544 mbps) line was the recommended size for 45 people in 1999. Now not 25 years later that’s laughable.