lifesized » hardware http://www.lifesized.net Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:20:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fiber arrives in my backyard… http://www.lifesized.net/2007/03/08/fiber-arrives-in-my-backyard/ http://www.lifesized.net/2007/03/08/fiber-arrives-in-my-backyard/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:42:12 +0000 James Burke http://www.lifesized.net/2007/03/08/fiber-arrives-in-my-backyard/ I just received some mail, from a group called glasvezelamsterdam (glass fiber). They tell me that my neighborhood is getting an infrastructure upgrade and that i’m viable for glass fiber, allowing me to reach speeds of upload and download 10x faster than broadband today, up to 100 Mbps theoretically. I went to their site and found a list of companies selling fiber connectivity in multiple forms from single(Internet connection) to double(+telephony) to triple(+iptv) play. What was interesting was to see their prices and also compare these to my present dsl provider.

So right now i spend:
8 Mbps download, 1 Mbps upload speed – 55,86 euro/month
telephony – one phone line – 12,56 eur/month
tv – 16.80 euro/month

So with new services i could get:
20 Mbps up/down – 35 euro/month
telephony – 5 euro/month

So i could already save about 30 euro a month and get double the speed, a huge improvement in speed all round. The truth is that i don’t really experience a huge lag in download times right now. Although perhaps if i were connected to an internet tv experience that might be so. It would be fun to try out a fiber connection. I’m actually more interested in trying WiMax as that allows for all my mobile devices to be connected using just a wiMax box at home to send me my own bandwidth to up to a few kilometers away. Shazaa!

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