[GRLUG] LUSFiber

[Bob Kline]

The relevant statement, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber:

**
Broadband internet </wiki/Broadband_internet> is provided to homes from 10
Mbps </wiki/Mbps> to 50Mbps, and to businesses up to 100Mbps. The service is
symmetrical, meaning the download </wiki/Download> and upload </wiki/Upload>
 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 peer-to-peer </wiki/Peer-to-peer> transfers at
speeds up up to 100Mbps
**

I agree that 50 Mbps up and down is
spectacular.  I don't know what people
in Japan and other parts of Asia get for
a similar price,  but I doubt it's symmetric.
Comcast charges about $190 for 50 Mbps
down, 10 Mbps up.

And of course the Lafayette example
makes BS out of the notion that US
cities are too expensive to fiber up.
There's nothing special about the structure
of Lafayette.

Of course the profit motive has been
taken out.  But the fact that it's
economic to provide and maintain
50 Mbps up and down for $58 a
month says there's something terribly
wrong with what US "providers" are
doing to us.  They would have excuses
about just about every aspect of the
Lafayette system.

     -- Bob



On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:43 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > That I know of,  the system, which is symmetrical by the way - e.g.,
> > 50 Mbps up, and 50 Mbps down -  is now being used by movie people to
> > access a supercomputer center.  And businesses in general can get the
> > 100 Mbps service.
>
> Wow.  Fifty Mbps *up*?  That's pretty hard to believe.  (I'm not
> questioning the veracity of your statement, just the difficulty in
> comprehending that speed...)  For fifty-eight bucks a month?  Wow.
>
> [snip]
> --
> john-thomas
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