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tanker27 wrote:FWIW FIOS and Uverse are not equal.
FiOS is hybrid bastard system that isnt 100% fiber.
Uverse on the other hand is 100% fiber from the street to the house and if wired correctly through out it.
derFunkenstein wrote:well if you're saving money and it's at least comparable that's a win, right?
Chrispy_ wrote:Gigabit FTTP at work didn't quite get maxed-out by Steam's content servers. I was seeing 40-45MB/s which means that they *do* have a limit!
tanker27 wrote:FWIW FIOS and Uverse are not equal.
FiOS is hybrid bastard system that isnt 100% fiber.
Uverse on the other hand is 100% fiber from the street to the house and if wired correctly through out it.
Bauxite wrote:You are pretty confused, or maybe your area only has that awful "bastard DSL" implementation but I think those all got sold off to the regionals already (I feel bad for their customers). Any install here is fiber all the way to the ONT.
FiOS is full fiber to the premises, after which the signal is converted to coax for the purposes of providing TV, and in older installs, Internet, after which it's converted from coax to ethernet. On newer installs this is skipped and the fiber is converted directly to ethernet. I believe coax system on older installs only went up to 75 ish Mbit, so they had to drop it when they started offering higher speeds. AFAIK, the TV side is still coax even on newer installs.
Glorious wrote:Was 75MBit restriction because of MoCA or because of BPON versus GPON? I know that it had something to do with the ONT, but MoCA 1.0 can definitely do at least 100.
But yeah, in practice, they are going to make you use ethernet for internet service over 75.
That's better anyway.
SuperSpy wrote:I remember it being because of MoCA, but the limit may have been 100 or 150. My understanding is the BPON vs GPON limitation is more due to plant age and number of splits per node than raw speed offered.