yeah, suddenlink is announcing 1 gig service.
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Short on details. 1Gig download AND upload or just 1 Gig download with some piddly upload? Pricing? Data caps? It's a sneaky plot...up the speeds but keep the caps. That way more unsuspecting people go over causing overage fees.
I'm sure they'll still be serving this over their coax network which means the same reliability issues that people have now will continue. It's a start but hardly some groundbreaking, press release worthy announcement. When we have more than just one provider in town, that will be an announcement.
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This has little affect on residential users unless you want to pay a huge (comparatively) fee. This is for businesses. One of the knocks we've had from large businesses considering relocation is the lack of highspeed internet.
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It may be fiber to the node instead of to the premises, but it'll be better than the options we have now.
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On a more serious note -
To solve the real problems, if you see someone using TOR or something nefarious (not like that stuff isn't kown) - SHUT THEM DOWN. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. If you're going to be an idiot and torrent movies, you get no internet. Simple. We do it all the time in corporate settings. Adopt a Zero Tolerance for crap like that.
I as an individual that plays by the rules, should not be penalized by idiots.
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^ True. There's three Large empty buildings out on the Bypass and 2818 where the AMS datacenter used to be that has fiber running right through it. I don't see businesses killing themselves to get in there. Vertafore (formerly AMS) left for Seattle, and AFAIK, those buildings have sat empty.
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Actually, I work for a firm that is located in one of those buildings, and the IT firm that relocated from NJ, Cognizant, is in one of the others. While the Verizon PoP has relocated, there is still fiber located to the first building, not the other two. We had to spur off of it to get connectivity, and believe me, it is not cheap. We pay a substantial amount for dedicated 8mb down, 8 up from Suddenlink.
Right now, we take up half, Cognizant takes up one of the other buildings entirely, and another firm is moving into the third.
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We pay a substantial amount for dedicated 8mb down, 8 up from Suddenlink.
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Does anyone have any updates on the contractor that was running new fiber along the bypass through CS? I'm sure that it was probably just some additional backhaul for Suddenlink or a pass-thru transit line to Houston.
quote:It looks mostly up to date too!
Fiberlight Interactive Map... map showing all of their fiber within TX