On Thursday 09 December 2010 11:00:58 Christopher Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Or would you prefer paying kilobucks per month for a tariffed OC3/12/48 or Gigabit provisioned Metro E? (that's all I can get, and it does cost kilobucks to get it).
Is this residential? One can get 1G symmetric fibre from HKBN for less than 30USD/mnth if you live in a block of apartments. See below. (Please note troll hat on my head)
FibreHome 1000 Basic Plan
installation fee waiver
‧ Basic monthly fee $199 ‧ Contract duration 24 months ‧ Maximum bandwidth (local access) 1000Mbps Upload/Download ‧ Maximum bandwidth (overseas access) 20Mbps Upload/Download ‧ Installation fee $0
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Sorry, I fail to understand how is this a 1G link? It clearly says that you have only 20Mbps uplink to the rest of the world (I guess that's what "overseas" mean).
Granted, the cabling may be able to withstand a 1000Mbps throughput (for whatever "local" network may be). But it's not the same thing as having a real 1G uplink, which would be much more expensive. Especially if it is symmetric.
Or have I misunderstood something here?
Btw, what part of the world are you in, geographically? That would probably clear up my understanding of "overseas" and "local" accesses... :-)
Best, :-) Marko