On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, draeath wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 9:54 am, Chris Mathey wrote:
>> Aaron Steimle wrote:
>>> I have question about fios. Do they run fiber to and in your house?
>> The fiber terminates at the demarc on the side of your house. They call it
>> an "ONT" (optical network terminal).
>> From there it rides the coax you most likely already have in your house.
>> For internet you plug the coax into the router they supply (Actiontec
>> MI424WR).
>> There is also an option to run Cat5e from the ONT to a router of your
>> choice. I think they might use PPPOE if you use the ethernet connection,
>> but I'm really not sure.
>> The coax connection is faster than 100mb anyway.
> Does their RJ45 interface support gigabit?
I don't think so, but what would be the point? The router doesn't and the
usual service isn't that fast. Even 100 Mb might be overkill, depending on
the saturation level of 10BT. 20 Mb/s = 2.5 MB/s. I haven't seen any
transfers even half that fast. Have others?
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