The relevant statement, from <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber</a>:<div><br></div><div>**</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="/wiki/Broadband_internet" title="Broadband internet" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Broadband internet</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">is provided to homes from 10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="/wiki/Mbps" title="Mbps" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mbps</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">to 50Mbps, and to businesses up to 100Mbps. The service is symmetrical, meaning the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="/wiki/Download" title="Download" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">download</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="/wiki/Upload" title="Upload" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">upload</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">speeds are the same. Many current telecommunication companies provide asymmetrical speeds, having a high download speed and lower up speed. LUS' fiber network also allows for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">peer-to-peer</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">transfers at speeds up up to 100Mbps</span></div>
<div>**</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that 50 Mbps up and down is</div><div>spectacular. I don't know what people</div><div>in Japan and other parts of Asia get for</div><div>a similar price, but I doubt it's symmetric.</div>
<div>Comcast charges about $190 for 50 Mbps</div><div>down, 10 Mbps up.</div><div><br></div><div>And of course the Lafayette example </div><div>makes BS out of the notion that US</div><div>cities are too expensive to fiber up.</div>
<div>There's nothing special about the structure</div><div>of Lafayette. </div><div><br></div><div>Of course the profit motive has been </div><div>taken out. But the fact that it's </div><div>economic to provide and maintain</div>
<div>50 Mbps up and down for $58 a </div><div>month says there's something terribly</div><div>wrong with what US "providers" are </div><div>doing to us. They would have excuses</div><div>about just about every aspect of the</div>
<div>Lafayette system.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:43 PM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
[snip]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> That I know of, the system, which is symmetrical by the way - e.g.,<br>
> 50 Mbps up, and 50 Mbps down - is now being used by movie people to<br>
> access a supercomputer center. And businesses in general can get the<br>
> 100 Mbps service.<br>
<br>
</div>Wow. Fifty Mbps *up*? That's pretty hard to believe. (I'm not<br>
questioning the veracity of your statement, just the difficulty in<br>
comprehending that speed...) For fifty-eight bucks a month? Wow.<br>
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