Well, technically, Century Link is GPON, not DSL, but at the end of the day, there's a still a limited amount of bandwidth. I might be wrong, but the 'real' difference between the two is really just how the signal is transmitted (copper vs fiber), as well as increases of both potential speed and distance.
Perhaps one can be split between more/fewer houses than the other, but the number of people on the loop has got to have an impact on bandwidth...would else would explain the speed differences between 2pm and 2am?
Re: Re: Re: Gigabit speeds and municipal networks
Well, technically, Century Link is GPON, not DSL, but at the end of the day, there's a still a limited amount of bandwidth. I might be wrong, but the 'real' difference between the two is really just how the signal is transmitted (copper vs fiber), as well as increases of both potential speed and distance.
Perhaps one can be split between more/fewer houses than the other, but the number of people on the loop has got to have an impact on bandwidth...would else would explain the speed differences between 2pm and 2am?
Re: Gigabit speeds and municipal networks
I'm curious...where do you get the 25 homes / 3.5 GB info? I'm in FoCo, and have Century Link 1 Gig service.
Over the past 4 years, it's gradually declined in quality from a consistent 1G up/down to 769/500.
I'm just curious how many people I'm splitting this connection with.
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