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Hello everyone! I'm new to these forums, but not new to the YouTube channels. What I wanted to discuss here is the barriers to widespread fiber Internet. There is of course this video here: Which explains the pros and cons of fiber vs copper and a bit more. It's a great video. Go check it out if you haven't seen it. In the video Linus goes over that one of the barriers to more widespread fiber lines is the cost to make it happen. Copper is already practically everywhere, and fiber is more costly to implement. I've done some research of my own and have come across articles that explain why it's even more costly than I had realized for companies to make the switch\add it as an option. Although what I'm talking about seems to much more applicable to the United States, which, go figure, is where I'm from. Fiber seems to be much more common in other countries in the EU and whatnot. An online friend of mine from Finland has also told me that fiber was pretty common there. What seems to be the big barrier here in the US seems to stem from the costs imposed by local governments to get access to "rights of way" to be able to lay lines above or below ground. Companies also seem to need to negotiate contracts to rent space on public utility poles and such. First of all, I would like to know if a lot of this is true, because I've been just reading articles from places I'm not familiar with, actually this is one of the first times I've actually cared enough to do any research at all. This discussion I'm creating here is also part of my research, because I want to learn more on the subject. I'm stuck in a place here in upstate New York where my only "good" (not really) ISP option I have is Time Warner Cable, or whatever company they are now since they merged with another company. The only DSL choice I have where I'm at is Verizon, and it's not even available specifically where I live. The only other choice I think I have is satellite, and I've honestly never tried it so I can't say anything in regards to its reliability, but the speeds offered just aren't appealing. Neither are Time Warner's for that matter, but they are "better." The maximum upload speed I could get if I paid for it is 5 Mbps. Which I guess is fine for a lot of people, but that just freaking sucks in my opinion. I host servers for a Steam game I develop for, and I have to pay for a VDS to do this. I have to Remote Desktop into a virtual computer to access it and make modifications. I don't even know if that server uses fiber, but it sure has the speed of it from what I could tell. It's got a 300 Mbps download and upload speed. It's so amazingly fast. I couldn't believe it when I first got to try it, and so this Internet monopoly where I live just hurts. I want fiber SO bad. If this monopoly is largely in part due to the fact that local governments here make it so hard to do, then shouldn't there be something we could do as consumers of Internet to overcome this problem? I'm not trying to make this a political discussion, but if there's something we can do to make it easier for fiber to get as widespread as copper, then why not do it? What are your thoughts on it? Any ideas on what could be done? Am I completely wrong and is it just the cost of fiber lines alone? I would like to know. Let's learn more together!
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I have recently started freelancing heavily for a small production company here in LA. They have a setup of (4) 2010 Mac Pros fairly maxed out. They all have 4GB Fiber cards installed and networked but they are compatible with 10.6.8 at most. They haven’t been using them for anything lately, but with the addition of myself we will be pulling in a lot more work with very large 4K Raw video files + Proxies. We are looking to upgrade the systems to work with the fiber system again so we can have (1) Mac Pro be the storage server and the rest of them just attach to it (for now, a larger SAN/NAS will be the goal later, but that will also need these new fiber cards). *MAIN QUESTION* Does anyone here know of a good fiber card(s) that works with a Mac Pro 2010/2012 Model and 10.10/10.11? Our research hasn’t been very fruitful, as there seems to be very little documentation that’s consistent. We have contacted companies that could help but they are very protective of their information so they can charge over a grand per machine minimum to install a mid-range fiber card. One card we have found that looks to work fine is the LSI7204EP. It has enough speed for what we are doing (10GB would be cool but we don’t pull nearly that much, this isn’t LTT) and the price is right. However, the price seems low so we are just wanting to be very sure first. Personally I don’t like using the Mac Systems but that’s how it is here now when I work out of the studio. Any information or advice is very appreciated! Thank You! -
At the production studio I recently started to work we are trying to repurpose a 2009 Mac Pro Tower to be a simple file server for us. We added a compatible Fiber Channel Card (an Apple brand one, no less) and it is recognized in the system perfectly, as are the ones in the other 2010 Mac Pro Towers we use as editing Bays. We have OS X Server El Capitan installed onto the server and all up to date. I can start XSAN on the Server but it fails to initialize with Error Code 13. I have looked and cannot find this error code in reference to Server/XSAN. After this error though, it shows that XSAN has been configured an is running fine. It then allows me to add a volume to the XSAN but at the same time it does not. It wants me to add a LUN to the list but I do not have any nor does it allow me to create one. Documentation on this is sparse in my research. I am looking to Just share the internal drive(s) on the machine over fiber as Ethernet is far too slow for our purposes. We plan on having a more robust solution in the future using these same fiber cards but for now we don't have a large NAS or something similar. Hoping some of you guys have some advice or help for me on this front. Apple stuff always seems to be so difficult when it comes to self configuration with little documentation to find. Thank you! We are losing our minds over here....
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So I have myself in a bit of a twist. I want to upgrade my current motorola/arris surfboard modem to either the SB6183 or the SB6190. Now I have TWC, and the best plan around here is 300Mbps. I live in Costa Mesa, California, which means I may or may not get Google fiber soon. This is why I am stumped. (cant stump the trump)TWC might upgrade the service around here to faster cable speeds, because google fiber is coming to irvine. So it's whether or not it would actually be a good desicion to get a more expensive, future proofed modem, or to get the bare minimum. I risk losing on my investment if fiber comes to town, but I also risk losing my investment if it doesn't. What are you thoughts on spending an extra $50 for more speed?
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Well now, this is a bit surprising. I am a bit disappointed in Google for making this move. Although I guess not entirely surprised. Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=eventuality&oq=eventuality&aqs=chrome..69i57.2679j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 So, could Google be preparing to make some moves that piss off their customers, or is this just Google preparing for an eventuality that may never come? I hope its the latter, as I would like to see Google continue kicking the asses of the likes of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and TWC. We really need more competition, and I really wish that Google would expand their fiber services a hell of a lot more than they have. They obviously have the money, the FCC would probably even offer them subsidies to do it, and consumers would more than certainly buy the service. Thoughts?
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Hi! The household is making the switch from ADSL2 to Fiber Optic internet in a week and we're planning to put the modem in the living room. My PC is in my room and it's 10m away from my living room. What kind of ethernet cable (CAT5? CAT5e?) should I get? I'll only need less than 30m to route the cable from the modem to my desktop I know this must be a very noob question to a lot of people on Fiber. I just want to get the cable before the change happens. So I can use my PC at the moment we make the switch to Fiber! ps I googled about this and I just got terribly confused..
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I am currently subscribing to Centurylink and receiving gigabit fiber. I have my Netgear R7000 directly wired into the ONT fiber box and signed in through PPPoE. I cannot seem to get anything faster than ~350mbps down and 450 up. From what I gather this is an issue with the particular router. I was curious if anyone had been able to get near a gigabit throughput with a similar setup. I've also seen a few people mentioning 3rd party firmwares but nothing gets past 500mbps. If this is a hardware issue are there any comparable routers that offer a full gigabit connection?
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I am about to move into an area that offers Century Link Gigabit fiber. I am moving from Comcast and have a Netgear R7000 wireless AC router. From what I gather this has the ability to run through PPPoE from the fiber to ethernet box. I have been seeing mixed comments regarding not only throughput of the router itself and the ability to turn off vLAN tagging from CL. Any insight as to this viability would be greatly appreciated. I've seen a few guides that show the vLAN tags getting changed so it is doable. However it seems this is where the total throughput on LAN drops. I'm not sure whether this is a firmware or chipset limitation. I would really love to be able to get full gigabit speeds on the LAN and not have to pay for equipment rentals.
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After finally installing our new sky fiber optic broadband, i was initially impressed by the speed of 29 megabits per second( bare in mind i was getting 3 or less!). However when I tried to test it on my PC, which is wireless, it was roughly the same as it used to be, but with better ping and upload. If anyone knows why through Ethernet i get the speed we paid for but through the Ethernet i get the ping and better upload but no download? If you have any ideas please could you leave a comment below.
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Introduction(Ignore if TL;DR) Hi everyone, I recently had a terrible experience with my broadband provider and the stability of the connection. A few dropouts and constant fluctuations in speed every second so in games I was constantly rubber-banding. Its finally all fixed but during the process I noticed that my computer that is connected with WiFi (it has to be, its to far for cables and all the sockets near the router are used up with home plugs for other devices) got a substantially lower rating in speed tests than the one that was connected through the wall plug. The point is I have decided that I may want to upgrade my router and WiFi dongle on my computer, maybe to wireless AC? The problem is my broadband provider is TalkTalk(in the UK) and I have their super-fast fiber service. What I want to know is which routers support this and how do I find out from their specifications. The router I currently have is the TalkTalk Super Router HG635 and is connection to the main outlet in my home using a grey DSL cable currently. I also have a BT Openreach box somewhere that I was told to remove by TalkTalk. They said that it isn't necessary now that I have the super router. I have been looking at these products for my upgrade. http://www.amazon.com/RT-AC66U-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC1750-Gigabit-Router/dp/B008ABOJKS%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3D02B7Y8VZ2ZRE5MXHPMR2%26tag%3Dbestcoverycom-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB008ABOJKS http://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-A6210-100PES-AC1200-802-11AC-Adapter/dp/B00OT586RQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446649112&sr=8-1&keywords=wireless+ac+dongle Are these good choices? If yes/no, why? Is it even worth upgrading? Should I already know all this as a student studying Computer Science? Well, I am sure you will tell me soon enough
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Source: http://about.att.com/story/plans_to_reach_38_more_metros_blazing_internet_speeds.html Coverage Map: https://www.att.com/shop/internet/gigapower/coverage-map.html Check for availability for your residence here: https://www.att.com/shop/u-verse/gigapower.html I'm a AT&T customer, currently on their 75d/8up U-Verse package that involves bonded pairs and have been with AT&T since the late 90's. Unfortunately I'm not in "Los Angeles", but I am in the Greater Los Angeles area so I'm hoping this will encompasses my area as well, if not in the future since there is dark fiber in the streets of my city, so AT&T could tap into that. Coincidentally I've been having some slowness with my connection, so it's either AT&T being crap or they are doing some upgrades around my area -
Hi ! I have in my home actually the VDSL at the speed of 30Mb/s. I want to upgrade to Full Fiber, but I have in each room an Ethernet Cable on the wall... should I use that cables or I've to upgrade also those? Is there any difference between a copper cable or fiber cable?
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Hello. I just thought I'd share my network cabinet. I was supposed to get fiber last Wednesday but they have to dig in the neighbors parking lot because the tubing runs under theirs and the old telephone cable is stuck somehow. But I've prepared! The switch is a Cisco 2926 10/100 (1000 in the two trunk ports). But I'm going to upgrade that soon for a 24 port one with gigabit. I do have a small 8-port netgear one that I currently use. I'm also scrounging up the hardware to make my own router in pfSense. My mate has one as well and the little case I got for it is tiny, fits mini itx and perfect for this little cabinet. What'ya think?
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Comcast knows that they won't be very big for long.... http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/02/as-google-fiber-hits-atlanta-comcast-says-dont-fall-for-the-hype/
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Hey guys, So recently I have been having this weird issue with my router/modem. And I will try to explain it here and see if you guys can help. Issue: Recently the main ground fault interuppter went out because I was doing some work in my garage which is directly connected to the ground fault circuit (stupid right?) and something wen't wrong so it got went out. After that I've been having some issues with either my modem, the issue is really weird, it sometimes says that my internet connection limited, so it can connect to the router but the router can't connect to the internet. This happens on all of my computer but not at the same time. I use LAN, but it also happens on WiFi devices like my phone (HTC Desire 510) and my iPad (iPad 4). I have tried changing the DNS setting of my router and my PC and that seemd to help for a little bit. I also tried to connect directly to the modem itself which didn't seem to work. We have fiber and my modem is a Genexis Live! Titanium-22. I hope you guys can help me! Thanks in advance. - TEC.
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Hello, So I had fiber/fibre installed today. I'm supposed to be getting 50 up/down. I get 50/50 on everything whether it's ethernet or wifi, except for this desktop. I have tried going into the network adapter and changing settings but nothing is changing. I've also tested both ethernet ports on the motherboard. Not sure what I'm missing. I only get 2-4 upload on this desktop which is hardwired into my router. I've tested other computers via wifi as well as hardwire and they get 50/50. So it's something with this desktops network settings/adapter/motherboard. My hardware that is potentially the problem is listed below: All drivers are up to date. Motherboard: ASRock Extreme6 CPU: i7-4790k Ethernet Port 1: Realtek PCIe GBE Controller Ethernet Port 2: Intel® Ethernet Connection l218-V Thanks for the help! (to anyone who actually reads this and helps) lol
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Hi all, I was just wondering, why does the LMG fiber box cost so much ($40K as stated in one tour video)? Here in Spain, I've got 300Mb/s Down and 300Mb/s Upload speeds (yes, a symmetric connection), with a small Alcatel-Lucent ONT which may cost no more than $15. Then I've got a wireless AC router connected to it via ethernet, which my ISP provided me (yes...not the best, but hey, it isn't giving me much trouble at the moment), so I don't believe that is the reason why it costs as much. Heck, and the LMG group "only" has 200/200Mb's. And I also don't believe reliability is the reason why it's costing 2000x more. For sure, it has a much more reliable power supply, it may have temperature stability controls for the main processor, it could even have a fiber splitter, two converter units and a linux box checking each 1/30 of a second if one has failed, changing to the best one. But that doesn't cost $40k. Not even $4k... Does anyone know any reason why? When I use my computer connected via ethernet, I can verify those gorgeous 300/300Mb/s. When it's in it's default position, connected via WiFi N300, I can only achieve 50Mb/s/40Mb/s, but that's another story.
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Ok, so I have a question that involves both network switches and music. I have a soundboard and want to use 2 switches between the stage and soundboard to send and receive audio. Can I use the sfp port with a fiber line to run from one switch to the other and then in the management utility of the switches essentially mirror the ports? Basically I want to combine all signal into that fiber line instead of running 24 separate cat-5 lines. I don't believe this should be an issue, but I wanted to make sure it's possible before buying the equip. Thanks!
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Guys is ping Download or Upload depended ? Why ping my on VIDEO GAMES SUCKS ALWAYS I have 100download 2mb upload EDIT: IGNORE THIS POST DUNNO WHY I REPOST .... ITS BUG !
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Guys is ping download or upload depended i am LoL player and 10h ago i was having 60 ping now 100..... its not the servers
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This meaning true unlimited data with no caps or extra charge for a single dat at full blast optical fiber speed, Plus storage isn't an issue, What would be the most traffic from your system be kept aside for? -
SKY and TalkTalk are two major broadband providers in the UK. To get the advantage over the biggest broadband provider; BT, Earlier this year they decided to work together. Starting in my home town of York, they are rolling out '1000Mb' connections by running fibre straight to the household and getting rid of the copper. They have gone by the name UltraFibreOptic and rate speeds of up to 940Mb that have been tested so far “Our preliminary discussions on financing such a scale roll-out have been positive, underscoring our confidence in the opportunity for building an economically viable, alternative and superior fibre infrastructure to that available today,” http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/14/talktalk-trial-york-internet-broadband
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Some people might wonder why a lot is being posted about NN and ISPs (and their shenanigans). Well, wonder no more. Because things like this are very important to the tech industry (and other industries) and it is my opinion that people need to care about things like this and no be apathetic. Plus, we get to witness corporate smackdowns like the one Google is happily delivering to other ISPs with their rollout of their Fibre services. I love that they are essentially goading the ISPs into rising up to their taunts with respect to T2 reclassifications. Sure, Google has a excellent track record of starting a lot of interesting ventures and then just giving up, I'd like to think that NN and their pursuit of being a ISP (if only to get other ISPs to smarten up) will last and will be taken seriously. http://bgr.com/2015/01/29/google-fiber-vs-comcast-att-net-neutrality/ -
So I just came across this cable project on kickstarter. Its called the TOB cable and the idea is that this one single cable can replace all cables. The cable itself is made from "heavy gauge copper wires and an optical fiber" and then the ends of the cable are totally removable and interchangeable. I would assume that the ends would have to have some sort of chip on the that would do the processing of the data, converting it from electrical to optical and then back to electrical. This reminds me of the 3.Optical cable that was reviewed by the gang a few months ago. The idea seems pretty cool to me and I am seriously contemplating backing it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/janulus/tob-cable-one-cable-for-everything EDIT: fellow forum member @Rafy has written up a nice article about it, and also had a chance to speak with the creator of the project to clarify how the fast charging works. That article can be foind here: http://engineeringlikesdesign.com/2015/02/21/tob-kickstarter/
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