antlists wrote: > 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 > >
I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a little box which is the modem. It looks a lot like a old AT&T Westel modem. It's a little bit smaller but other than that, almost identical. Then there is a bigger box that is a router. I'm not sure of the brand but I don't think I've ever seen one like that before. It includes wifi as well as the usual 4 ethernet plugins. My friend only uses wifi. She has a TV, laptop and cell phone. Me, I'm desktop so I'd have a ethernet plug for mine. Wifi for my cell phone tho. Oh, printer too. I assume I can use my router. It has a ethernet cable going from modem to router. Looks pretty simple to me. If I can use my existing router, don't know why I can't, then it should be as simple as unplug cable from router, plug into new modem from power company and surf the internet, at blazingly fast speeds. Whooooooossssshhh. I have links to pics I took. One is modem and one is the router. Anyone recognize the router? Anything special about it? https://freeimage.host/i/KBNa6b https://freeimage.host/i/KBNYMu I hope that site doesn't annoy anyone. I upload there but rarely go there for anything else. I need to have me a server thingy somewhere I can upload to and keep things safe. With this new internet, it is possible. It uploads and downloads at 200MB/sec. First backup may take a while but after that, it wouldn't be bad. I wouldn't think of doing that with current DSL tho. I'm excited to see this coming. This is as good as when I went from dial-up to DSL. Dale :-) :-)
