On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Bates<jba...@brightok.net> wrote: > jim deleskie wrote: >> >> I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to >> the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to >> homes, it's outdated before we even finish. > > I disagree. I much prefer fiber to the curb with copper to the home. Of > course, I haven't had a need for 100mb/s to the house which I can do on > copper, much less need for gigabit. > > Pro's for copper from curb: > > 1) power over copper for POTS > 2) Majority of cuts occur on customer drops and copper is more resilient to > splicing by any monkey.
I have fiber to the home. I can't imagine going back to "cable modems" now. eww..
