Subj : fibre experience, anyone?
To   : Len
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Apr 21 2024 21:57:00

Hello Len!

** On Sunday 21.04.24 - 18:13, Len wrote to Ogg:

 L> I've enjoyed fiber, but the technology is probably the most
 L> fragile out of all forms of broadband I've had. I've had
 L> vines grow into the splice enclosure and degrade or cut off
 L> my service. Other than that it's good. They ran the line
 L> through a conduit and drilled a hole through one of the
 L> walls and installed a service box. Very simple.

I can see were a conduit would be a smart thing for most  
installations. The ones I see nearby are just the plain cable  
(a somewhat flat design, btw) and just loops a few times to  
make necessary right angle turns.


 L> I used to live out in a much more rural area but had DSL at
 L> 100mbps thanks to being right super close to a CO. Like
 L> someone else had mentioned, I still see broadband services
 L> that provide less speed charging as much as the fiber I
 L> have currently.

My DSL is only a few hundred meters from the CO! But the  
highly-paid operators in there tell me that the copper feeding  
my building is at fault, somehow.  Apparently they monitor some  
kind of graph that displays drop-outs when a particular line is  
adjusted for a certain speed. For anything higher than 5Mbps  
they said there were "too many drop outs" - that's when the  
connections keeps retrying and retrying.  So, they throttled my  
DSL at 5Mbps even though I am paying for atleast 25Mbps.

Most of my neighbors on the street report much better DSL  
speeds.

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