On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote:
Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet
service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is
over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month
more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec.
Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, same
speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download
one. Yeppie!!
My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires
me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I
suspect it does but we will see.
We went to fibre recently. They put a new box on the wall which takes an
RJ-45 instead of the previous situation where ADSL took an RJ-11.
All the blurb says "works with BT Hub 6", which we already had, so I
didn't bother getting a new router (you had to pay for the "latest and
greatest" Hub 7).
When the guy installed it - "where's you new router, it won't work with
this one". No apparently you can't just plug it into any old network
port, the router needs a dedicated WAN link and the Hub 6 came in two
versions, one with an ADSL modem and one with a fibre uplink.
So it sounds like you need to swap your ADSL router for a cable router
or whatever it is, but apart from that you'll be fine.
(And then some sales guy working on behalf of BT knocked on the door,
was surprised to find we were already BT customers, and rigged up some
deal that (a) threw in a Hub-7 free, (b) changed our calling plan to
remove the one-hour limit and add free calls to mobiles, and (c) knocked
about £2 off our monthly bill!!!)
Cheers,
Wol
