On Friday, December 10, 2010 03:12 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
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[snip]
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).
Residential link...we don't care that much about overseas bandwidth, not unless we are into the DOSing business :-p
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?
One gets 1G to hosts local to Hong Kong. Like the local Centos mirrors.
Btw, what part of the world are you in, geographically? That would probably clear up my understanding of "overseas" and "local" accesses... :-)
Hong Kong.