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.