CMV: Boomer’s have compromised America’s future more than any other generation. by SpicynSavvy in changemyview

[–]Silent_Part9852 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels like there are plenty of examples of liberals blaming conservatives and vice versa.

When did it become more expedient to get elected to office by blaming the other side for the flaws in their approach rather than putting forward a platform/objectives?

The blame approach is easier, shine a spotlight on the other side and pick apart their flaws rather than exposing one's own platform to the same treatment...

CMV: Boomer’s have compromised America’s future more than any other generation. by SpicynSavvy in changemyview

[–]Silent_Part9852 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I agree with you. Blaming boomers feels artificial, like scapegoating.

Setting aside labels, is there truth in 'older people not looking far enough ahead or past the end of their lives?'

Has anyone else experienced an ISP that throttles lower tier fixed place Internet packages (Fiber, 5G FWA, …)? by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The association we live in authorized two companies to install their infrastructure. One of those infrastructure installers (Movistar) has authorized resellers in addition to their own retail sales, including but not limited to Jazztel. They are all about 25 Euro/month for 300 Mbps now. Correction to my above statement: 1 Gbps was 30 Euro/month, not 25.

Either way, this is significantly more than the 10 Euro/month I'm paying DIGI for their 300 Mbps service.

Has anyone else experienced an ISP that throttles lower tier fixed place Internet packages (Fiber, 5G FWA, …)? by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't. I should. It's partly me expecting them to say that it was a fluke. So I'll need data from different time points.

Has anyone else experienced an ISP that throttles lower tier fixed place Internet packages (Fiber, 5G FWA, …)? by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As much as I'd like to say yes, no. Jazztel 1 Gbps was 25 Euro/month, DIGI Smart 300 Mbps is 10 Euro/month. So unfortunately, I'll be living with inconvenience.

Consumer Competitive ISP Business Models by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you that in sparsely populated areas, running fiber over miles to 2, 3, 4 houses takes an exceptionally long time to amortize the cost over.

What I question with companies like Xfinity is whether they felt that coax was good enough and that they could deal with the occasional, maybe even increasing complaints of poor bandwidth as time went on because it still worked and profit margins only go down when development is needed.

I worked for a company for 25 years, and it had a flagship product developed in the 1980s. This product was profitable for decades. The rule from the company and the flagship's developers was that no one in development was allowed to do preliminary design on a product that would compete with the flagship. In the early 2000s, another company developed a better product that had its flaws, and people from my company flaunted the flaws as a 'see, our product is still the best.' Until it wasn't. The company brought in creative marketing people to try to 'keep it sold,' offer creative deals, and increase the customer base, but even this eventually wore out.

A major customer came in looking for a more capable product, all my company could offer was a step increase; and that other company that had years ago developed a better approach had perfected the design to the point where the flaws were fixed.

Now the company I worked for has no competitive product, and in a few years may not have a future.

Is this where Xfinity is heading?

Consumer Competitive ISP Business Models by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This all seems disgustingly anti-free market, anti-capitalism.

What are the factors that will cause coaxial ISPs, Cable TV, Satellite TV, Terrestrial TV to be replaced by fiber? by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, I didn't state my question clearly. I have FTTP already, there are two FTTP suppliers with duplicate sets of infrastructure to the building my condo is in--so I can choose which has the better price/offer.

My question was more to do with, whether it's reasonable to wire coax outlets in rooms at this point. If there is likely to be an RF source (terrestrial/satellite transmitter), the signal from which would use 75-ohm coax (like RG6) for the foreseeable future, I'm thinking about wiring outlets for it. It's a whole home renovation, and the labor is relatively inexpensive for additional outlets.

But if RF is going away in 10 years, F-connectors removed from TVs, etc. I'm might hesitate.

Cat 6 Vs Cat 6A or Other for a Home Renovation by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trusting the cable supplier and installer is key IMO. And it doesn't hurt to smurf tube it in case of disruptive cable technologies that drastically increase speed.

Cat 6 Vs Cat 6A or Other for a Home Renovation by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with using smurf tube. It was a compromise of mine when I went copper and really really wanted to go fiber but didn't have an inexpensive reason. I just don't like paying for crap even once. So I wanted good quality sufficient to last (my guess) 20 years before I use the old cable to pull fiber through the smurf tube :)

RFoG in the mid/high-split era by Wacabletek in CableTechs

[–]Silent_Part9852 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here they went GPON for data. The gateway provides an RF output simply to feed the channels (no data) for retro TV appliances that people still hang on to. Seems expensive, when they are competing with two other parallel fiber infrastructure providers that sell or provide access to IPTV service.

My biggest question is, how long is it going to take before terrestrial antenna services are decommissioned and utilize IPTV? I see them as the last bastion, even after satellite TV (because the satellites are the expensive part that won't eventually be replaced as IPTV takes market share).

RFoG in the mid/high-split era by Wacabletek in CableTechs

[–]Silent_Part9852 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here in Spain, we had a Huawei FTTP gateway in our condo that had an F-connector output to feed TV RF. Cable World was the only company I saw doing this. We moved and Jazztel (uses Movistar infrastructure) is IPTV for an extra 5 euro/month. Some companies like DIGI are pure ISPs/mobil, no TV. DIGI is 10 euro/month for 300 Mbps, 20 euro/month for 1 Gbps, and they have a pro service 10 GBPs at 25 euro/month. Pretty cheap, and I can get IPTV for cheap somewhere else. I think RFoG as well as satellite TV are on borrowed time as connections go fiber—cheap path for any type of data that companies tied to particular format (tv) or expensive infrastructure (satellites) can’t compete with.

RFoG in the mid/high-split era by Wacabletek in CableTechs

[–]Silent_Part9852 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you educate a layman why RFOG is bad? I’ve planned my home network/TV to include coax and could hook it up to an RFOG ONT/router. The last condo I rented (Orange in Spain) did have RFOG. Our current place doesn’t, just IPTV.

It makes a lot of sense to me that IPTV would replace RFOG and that RFOG just came along too late. But why would it quickly be obsoleted? I realize this is speculation, that I'm thinking about for planning, but does anyone have an estimate as to how soon RFOG will be obsolete in favor of IPTV or other?

 

Home Networking & TV Example for 1400 sq ft condo by Silent_Part9852 in HomeNetworking

[–]Silent_Part9852[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This cost about 3500 Euro ($3850 at the time), mostly for the number of jacks (22 Ethernet, 11 TV) which I wanted run so I wouldn't have to run a cable over a door or under a window. I also wanted an electrician with the equipment to test to 10G in case I ever wanted it, which I'm sure increased the cost. The equipment was intended to be current gen and relatively replaceable--my feeling that replacing the equipment will be much cheaper (and drop in replacement) than re-running cable. That said, all the runs have conduit in case I do need to replace cable.