just a little help if you need it
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Re: just a little help if you need it
I'll let my friends that still suffer from shitty speeds during peak times that it doesn't work that way any more. So what's this magic fiber/ copper hybrid you speak of?
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Re: just a little help if you need it
A fiber optic node has a broadband optical receiver which converts the downstream optically modulated signal coming from the headend/hub to an electrical signal going to the homes.
Like I said, cox sends their multiplexed signal over fiber to a point in an area, then de mux's it to copper going to the individual houses. That's just like Verizon, and everybody else's old network. You send it out on fiber to a point, then it demux's to copper the rest of the way to the house. You can give it a fancy name, but it's no different than anybody else's old system.
Fios is fiber all the way from the C.O. to the customers house. It's got unlimited band width and is infinitely upgradeable by the electronics on either end. Weather also doesn't effect glass the way it does copper either. So you can claim Fios is just a marketing scheme, but there is nothing like it offered by anyone else.
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Re: just a little help if you need it
Quoted from your link:
A fiber optic node has a broadband optical receiver which converts the downstream optically modulated signal coming from the headend/hub to an electrical signal going to the homes.
Like I said, cox sends their multiplexed signal over fiber to a point in an area, then de mux's it to copper going to the individual houses. That's just like Verizon, and everybody else's old network. You send it out on fiber to a point, then it demux's to copper the rest of the way to the house. You can give it a fancy name, but it's no different than anybody else's old system.
Fios is fiber all the way from the C.O. to the customers house. It's got unlimited band width and is infinitely upgradeable by the electronics on either end. Weather also doesn't effect glass the way it does copper either. So you can claim Fios is just a marketing scheme, but there is nothing like it offered by anyone else.
A fiber optic node has a broadband optical receiver which converts the downstream optically modulated signal coming from the headend/hub to an electrical signal going to the homes.
Like I said, cox sends their multiplexed signal over fiber to a point in an area, then de mux's it to copper going to the individual houses. That's just like Verizon, and everybody else's old network. You send it out on fiber to a point, then it demux's to copper the rest of the way to the house. You can give it a fancy name, but it's no different than anybody else's old system.
Fios is fiber all the way from the C.O. to the customers house. It's got unlimited band width and is infinitely upgradeable by the electronics on either end. Weather also doesn't effect glass the way it does copper either. So you can claim Fios is just a marketing scheme, but there is nothing like it offered by anyone else.
hmmm i guess because fios is sooooo great is why i transfer at least 10 customers a day to cox...
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Re: just a little help if you need it
My FiOS's internet was slower than Cox's internet when I was at my old apt. Both were the 5mb/s versions. But FiOS definitely had better prices and channels.