I am loving my Cox fiber. On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 7:10 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > Yeah, > I will stick with cox and their coax method. It’s worked so far. > > Btw, century link was in the neighborhood last week with a bunch of sales > people trying to push fiber optic. They laid a main trunk up 83rd ave here > about 2 years ago. I asked the sales person if they would be willing to run > fiber right up to my door. The answer I got sounded a lot like marketing > speak. When I pushed, they admitted that it would still be pots lines from > the nearest fiber node to my place. Once that was admitted, then the real > truth started coming out about line replacement costs, etc. needless to > say, not worth it. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage guild, Infrastructure > development and implementation Dept. > > > On Feb 7, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/07/google-fiber-louisville-shutting-down/ > > Google Fiber has been dying on the vine a bit now, but typical google, > anything that has problems they just whack anymore. Are you glad or sad > they didn't come here, more than the 2 people that actually it in some > foreign territory? Better to have never loved than loved and lost? > > Better or worse, that few years Google was pushing Fiber, they got Cox > scrambling to at least pretend to push more fiber/gigabit technologies, > until they smelled blood and decided google wasn't worth continued effort > to defend against, going back to coax and much more status quo. > > Centurylink has to move off 2-wire tech as their only option for evolution > in anything new beyond 150mps speeds, but don't expect them to ever > retrofit old properties (me, probably you too) soon. Not sure what they > will do with old dsl like my area, but give up and not offer better > service. They can only bond 2x 70mps channels on old 2wire tech, cox can > push gig today if they wanted to. > > If you don't have fiber now, you'll never have it likely with either > provider any time soon. Cox Coax can evolve/compete with fiber, CL DSL not > so much. > > -mb > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss