Finally, fiber to the premises-- FTTP

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The discussion centers on the transition from satellite internet to Fiber to the Desktop (FTTD) service, highlighting a significant increase in internet speed from 223 Kbps to approximately 25 Mbps. Users express satisfaction with the improved service, noting the absence of bandwidth limits and throttling. The conversation also touches on historical internet speeds and the evolution of technology, including references to early modem speeds and UNIX commands.

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After living under a satellite dish for 20 or so years...

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We have internet service that is actually... usable internet service... LoL

http://testmy.net/compID/60629002676

Man, it's a big change... Love it. :oldbiggrin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x#Fiber_to_the_premises
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x

In our case, it's actually... FTTD (fiber to the desktop), then wireless through the rest of the house, by way of ahttp://www.nemont.net/DSLModem/bec_7800tn.pdf

LoL...from 223 Kbps, to around 25.00 Mbps, or better... :approve:

Oh yeah, absolutely no bandwidth limit or throttling either...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_throttling
 
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OCR said:
LoL...from 223 Kbps, to around 25.00 Mbps, or better... :approve:
I remember the days of 14.4kb/s dial up modems! But yeah, going back to less than 1mb/s would drive me up the wall. Welcome to the modern world :D
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
I remember the days of 14.4kb/s dial up modems!
And I remember the days when 14.4kb/sec was blazingly fast in comparison to what I was getting.
 
(This is very unscientific but kinda fun) There once was a published paper in the early 1980's that had a proved theorem about the limits of the bit rate for telephony of that time - does anyone remember? I think it was on the order of 1024bps - maybe 2048. It was in ACM, I'm pretty sure. Anyway this was back when we used the term baud, and a 50 baud modem was a defacto standard.

Had a PDP running UNIX - the terminal was a tty, at maybe ~30 baud. Think of typewriter with a console the size of Kansas.
I'm tempted to say we had hamsters carrying bits back and forth.

Ever wonder why UNIX commands ( the originals like ls, rm, cp, mv) are so terse? This is what is was like:
Code: 
Me: hit "l"
UNIX tty:... chacka "l"
Me: hit "s"
UNIX tty:... chacka "s"
Me: hit <return>
UNIX tty:... chacka  pause...
chacka  chacka file1
chacka chacka file2

-- extra chacka-chacka-chacka sounds removed for clarity.
Total time maybe 15 seconds. The hamsters would have choked on Linux commands with "--long options"
 

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