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timmmay: When I called Telecom when I purchased my house they couldn't guarantee i'd get decent broadband over their legacy infrastructure. I might, or I might not. The wiring in this place is old too. TC has a new infrastructure and it works well. The other options are technically significantly inferior.
Once the fibre to the home initiative is rolled out it'll be a different story.
timmmay: When I called Telecom when I purchased my house they couldn't guarantee i'd get decent broadband over their legacy infrastructure. I might, or I might not. The wiring in this place is old too. TC has a new infrastructure and it works well. The other options are technically significantly inferior.
Once the fibre to the home initiative is rolled out it'll be a different story.
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Antoniosk
antoniosk:timmmay: When I called Telecom when I purchased my house they couldn't guarantee i'd get decent broadband over their legacy infrastructure. I might, or I might not. The wiring in this place is old too. TC has a new infrastructure and it works well. The other options are technically significantly inferior.
Once the fibre to the home initiative is rolled out it'll be a different story.
Really? how will fibre to the home fix the wiring in your house?
timmmay:antoniosk:timmmay: When I called Telecom when I purchased my house they couldn't guarantee i'd get decent broadband over their legacy infrastructure. I might, or I might not. The wiring in this place is old too. TC has a new infrastructure and it works well. The other options are technically significantly inferior.
Once the fibre to the home initiative is rolled out it'll be a different story.
Really? how will fibre to the home fix the wiring in your house?
You're not going to bring in a Gbps fibre then run it over dodgy old phone wires. It would terminate in one place, be fed into a router or switch of some type, and would then connect to my gigabit lan and to some endpoints using one of my wireless hotspots.
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Antoniosk
timmmay: Technically TC is very good, great internet speeds and reasonable prices, but customer service is a weak point. The annual Consumer Magazine customer survey found this was a generally held opinion. If you get things set up and working then don't have to change anything then it should be fine. Even with the hassles, which are generally relatively minor, I haven't considered changing ISPs.
antoniosk:Right, so you're going to upgrade the internals yourself, and buy and manage your own kit. Good stuff, the country needs more of this thinking.
quickymart: When was that published? I'd like to take a look at this.
timmmay:antoniosk:Right, so you're going to upgrade the internals yourself, and buy and manage your own kit. Good stuff, the country needs more of this thinking.
I don't follow you, plus i'm not sure why but you seem to be looking for an argument.
My point is you wouldn't run a new service over horribly old infrastructure like telephone wires. When fibre to the premises arrives it will terminate in some kind of a "fibre modem", plug into a router, then go over the gigabit lan I had installed in my house. New houses hopefully have a fast network installed by default. My lan has two wireless access points for mobile devices to connect, and ethernet ports in all the places I need wired connections - ie by the home entertainment system and where I want an internet phone.
If people get new fibre in and don't have a wired network then they can either have the installers put jacks in by the TV and by their PC/router, or use wireless. I'm not sure what the point of fibre to the home is if you cripple the last leg by using a relatively slow wireless link, in my experience you need wired for that.
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timmmay:antoniosk:Right, so you're going to upgrade the internals yourself, and buy and manage your own kit. Good stuff, the country needs more of this thinking.
I don't follow you, plus i'm not sure why but you seem to be looking for an argument.
My point is you wouldn't run a new service over horribly old infrastructure like telephone wires. When fibre to the premises arrives it will terminate in some kind of a "fibre modem", plug into a router, then go over the gigabit lan I had installed in my house. New houses hopefully have a fast network installed by default. My lan has two wireless access points for mobile devices to connect, and ethernet ports in all the places I need wired connections - ie by the home entertainment system and where I want an internet phone.
If people get new fibre in and don't have a wired network then they can either have the installers put jacks in by the TV and by their PC/router, or use wireless. I'm not sure what the point of fibre to the home is if you cripple the last leg by using a relatively slow wireless link, in my experience you need wired for that.
swalker5872: Far too often here on GZ people complain about their ISP or Telecom/Chorusregards slow speed internet when the issue is their own home wiring and/or their computer hardware and nothing to do with their ISP. As you correctly recognise the last few yards of wiring are if anything more important and you will take efforts to get your own house in order to get the best services you can when FTTP roles out.
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