Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Fiber to the home. It's about time.

Thought you were cool with an ultra-fast cable modem? DSL ping times helping you in Unreal Tournament 2004? Well, if your neighbor has a fiber connection from Verizon to his house, you might as well be using a 56K modem. The scary thing about this is that it will cost less than cable and DSL. Now, maybe cable companies will realize that the arbitrary 128K/UP cap is silly.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Figures this would happen as soon as Jarn gets broadband! How's it feel to already be slow?

CNE said...

Considering Verizon left our town about 2-3 years ago, I don't feel too bad about it.

CNE said...

Some Verizon-bashing is going on over at techdirt: http://techdirt.com/articles/20040721/1024231.shtml