Eben King wrote:
> 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?
>
I get 20mbit speeds all the time.
If I allow my torrent seed box unlimited bandwidth it seems to max out
around 15mbit upstream.
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