Fiber Optic Internet Service.

[Raziaar]

So. I was wondering. How many of you guys either have currently, or are going to be getting Fiber Optic service in the future?

I will be, hopefully by the end of march or sometime before. Verizon is current implementing their FIOS service in several parts of the country, and one of the towns they're currently lighting up is my town here in Texas.

I'm so excited and pumped about this, I don't much care that its Verizon. My Current ISP sold out to Nationwide, and their once SUPREME customer service has gone to hell, and I was paying about 80-90 bucks a month for that for limited bandwith per month(10gig). With this FIOS, i'll be able to achieve 15Mbps download, 2Mbps upload for about 50 bucks a month. 30 bucks less for tremendously faster speeds and no bandwith cap! Can't wait. I'll download the entire internet. Muahaha.

 

[Tr0n]

Funny how America was the one that created the internet and broadband, but yet we are still lacking in terms of speed and service.

Heck in some countries you can get a 1gig connection for about $50 a month. :|

 

[Hazar]

With this FIOS, i'll be able to achieve 15Mbps download, 2Mbps upload for about 50 bucks a month. 30 bucks less for tremendously faster speeds and no bandwith cap! Can't wait. I'll download the entire internet. Muahaha.

:O!

Gimme!!!!

 

[Septih]

Funny how America was the one that created the internet...

wait... Tim Berners Lee was from the UK, and he came up with the internet in switzerland. How is it american?

 

[Tr0n]

Oh...I thought it was developed in america for use by our military or somethin? :|

Well thanks for the correction.

 

[Septih]

Oh...I thought it was developed in america for use by the military? :|

Well thanks for the correction.

probably adopted by the americans, which would have led to it becoming mainstream

 

[kirovman]

Old copper wires for me for a good long while I guess.

 

[Tr0n]

Well...I don't know if this proves the internet orginated in america or not but it's a good read.

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

Origins of the Internet
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.

 

[Steve]

Yeah, sorry guys, but ARPANET was the origin of the internet.

 

[Tr0n]

Tim Berners Lee was the creator of the World Wide Web not the internet...the backbone of the internet and what defined the internet was created in America during the late 60's to be used by the scientist and the military to transfer data.

Or at least I think thats the story...I'm probally wrong tho.

Also the World Wide Web is a internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing.Pulled from here:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

 

[RRunner]

just read an offer, where the price was 80$ a month 4 a 100mb line, but i cant for the life of me understand what i need a 100mb line for.

currently have an 8mb line( for about 30$), which is well enough.

 

[Septih]

Tim Berners Lee was the creator of the World Wide Web not the internet...the backbone of the internet and what defined the internet was created in America during the late 60's to be used by the scientist and the military to transfer data.

Or at least I think thats the story...I'm probally wrong tho.

Also the World Wide Web is a internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing.Pulled from here:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

thanks for the correction

i think http://www.answers.com/internet&r=67 describes it best with the internet coming from a US military project and the world wide web creating "the internet"

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Oh...I thought it was developed in america for use by our military or somethin? :|

Well thanks for the correction.

ARPA net was developed in the height of the cold war by the US military, however Tim Berniers made it mainstream

 

[Tr0n]

So basically the world owes us a favor for creating the internet.

ARPA net was developed in the height of the cold war by the US military, however Tim Berniers made it mainstream

Well that still proves my point...what defined the internet and what was the backbone of it was created here in america.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Not when SKYNET comes online

 

[Steve]

Not when SKYNET comes online

You mean thursday? :O I've said too much!

 

[qckbeam]

You mean thursday? :O I've said too much!

Great Steve, just great! There's something else you've ruined for all of us!

 

[kirovman]

So basically the world owes us a favor for creating the internet.


Well that still proves my point...what defined the internet and what was the backbone of it was created here in america.

Hey!

Everyone knows Al Gore created the internet!

 

[The Monkey]

In polls most of you claim to have broadband. And you can't have broadband without fiber cables, so must of you must have that too.

 

[Tr0n]

In polls most of you claim to have broadband. And you can't have broadband without fiber cables, so must of you must have that too.

Well I think what he was talking about was a direct fiber connection.Unlike where it is optical then is converted and transfered through copper cables and some other technical jumbo.

 

[Hazar]

In polls most of you claim to have broadband. And you can't have broadband without fiber cables, so must of you must have that too.

that's not necesarrily true.

coax cable is used a lot still

 

[The Monkey]

Well I think what he was talking about was a direct fiber connection.Unlike where it is optical then is converted and transfered through copper cables and some other technical jumbo.

Are you sure? Here they speak of three diffent connections:

Modem: 14-56 kb/s
ADSL: 256 kb/s-8 mb/s
Broadband(fiber cables): 10 mb/s-1000 mb/s

that's not necesarrily true.

coax cable is used a lot still

Maybe on your side of the pond. Here all broadband have fiber cables. But not everyone has access to broadband.

 

[Lethal8472]

ADSL is a form of broadband, not something entirely different.

 

[ZeeM]

Heck in some countries you can get a 1gig connection for about $50 a month. :|

That`s sweden

Damn, I wish I lived there :hmph:

 

[Raziaar]

Are you sure? Here they speak of three diffent connections:

Modem: 14-56 kb/s
ADSL: 256 kb/s-8 mb/s
Broadband(fiber cables): 10 mb/s-1000 mb/s



Maybe on your side of the pond. Here all broadband have fiber cables. But not everyone has access to broadband.

The majority of United States electrical lines for telephone, etc. Are with fiber cable... HOWEVER, like the previous people said, they are correct that it branches out into Coax cable to the houses which I guess kind of puts a bottleneck on it all or something. The FIOS service puts a direct fiber optic connection to the household. The installation is all free of charge and everything.

And eventually, the same fiber optic cables will be offered from verizon for cable TV, and telephone service(which they're already doing now. The telephone over the fios)

 

[destrukt]

OC-748 - 40gb/s.

:O

 

[Ames]

OC-748 - 40gb/s.

:O

shut up pinkboy.

Verizon isn't installing their FIOS service near me.

Stupid Texan town. grrr....

 

[Raziaar]

shut up pinkboy.

Verizon isn't installing their FIOS service near me.

Stupid Texan town. grrr....

My internet connection will run circles around yours! And from a lazy backwater 'stupid Texan town'! Muahahahahah!

Nah. Its in the suburbs of Dallas. Heh.

 

[rpgprog]

ya for once i am jealous of the south. for ONCE