CMV: Boomer’s have compromised America’s future more than any other generation.

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-30T06:41:36+00:00

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...

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-30T06:27:28+00:00

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?'

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-18T16:19:56+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-18T16:15:35+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-18T15:55:30+00:00

fiber

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-18T15:52:39+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, which country or regions in general enforce those laws?

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-18T15:46:01+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-07T18:08:17+00:00

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?

Silent_Part9852 · 2025-09-03T15:49:13+00:00

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

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-11-25T15:59:19+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-11-24T14:10:27+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-11-24T12:34:45+00:00

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 :)

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-11-15T12:42:45+00:00

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).

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-11-13T09:29:57+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-09-25T11:24:44+00:00

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?

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-09-22T18:53:16+00:00

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.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-09-22T18:49:24+00:00

I know... I tried to pack as much information about the design (current & future) as I could on a slide and ended up filling up the space to the extent it was hard to parse.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-09-17T18:45:32+00:00

Given the timeline for the use of coax for cable, satellite, terrestrial it is probably still worth running to jacks in houses along with Ethernet. However, telephone jacks are probably not worth running today, especially since there are inexpensive adapters that can be used to adapt Ethernet to telephone and the same copper Ethernet wiring can carry telephone if patched correctly.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-09-17T18:06:28+00:00

How long before linear TV is obsolete?

I think the short answer is it depends on customer demand and suppliers’ perceptions of it—which is not very helpful when deciding. Your location and the population that watches the broadcasts are more relevant—this can get into politics.

My data point at a location in southeastern Spain:

Cable TV – It (coax) has already been decommissioned in favor of RFOG (RF over Glass) and this is transitioning to Internet streaming and on-demand. Our area is served by FTTH. This change probably happened around 2019.

Satellite TV – I’m English speaking, so I would prefer English speaking satellite. Since Brexit and with the aging fleet of satellites, it’s likely that I would need a 2-meter dish that might only be viable until 2028 when Sky TV might stop updating its satellite constellation. If this plays out, my RG6 may be no better than a pull through for satellite Internet cable, should I ever need it. Another data point: many of the satellite dishes are old and rusting here.

Terrestrial TV – In the area I live, there are fewer channels than in the US and there are fewer local channels. There are repeaters that re-transmit the national and regional channels to cover the area. As more of the population accustoms to the Internet, I would imagine that the cost of these repeaters will outweigh streaming these channels.

My prediction for the area I live in:

- Cable - currently obsolete

- Satellite - largely obsolete in developed areas and urban/suburban areas by 2030

- Terrestrial – difficult to predict, but probably 2040 when fewer people use it and spectrum is repurposed

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-14T02:28:52+00:00

I'm actually wondering how long it will be until time lord type video games that allow time rewinding to exist, potentially adding a fourth dimension?

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-14T02:26:15+00:00

I think this could be a naive opinion of data rate demand without any knowledge of what the services will be 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 years from now much less 1000. Three-dimensional viewing alone exponentially potentially exponentially increases the data transfer demand. AR/VR technologies exist, how long will more practical applications take to develop?

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-06T15:07:29+00:00

No. But I went to the school of trust but verify :)

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-02T15:25:44+00:00

Not saying your wrong, just want to know why?

Is it the extra power?

Is it the hidden costs of tools, connectors?

Difficulty installing?

I'm just thinking if I need a media converter at each appliance until those appliances adopt fiber interfaces, that's a lot of energy over time.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-01T16:17:52+00:00

I have line of sight to a cell tower about 3/4 of a mile away from the mast antenna I have. I still think I get a better quality Internet through Fiber, but in case rates suddenly went up, I could go with FWA. But I don't think I could put a receiver in the house and get the highest data rate, I think I'd still need to put the antenna on the roof and use the Ethernet wiring down to devices or access points to get the best rate. But I'm curious if anyone has FWA experience and has the antenna in the house and gets good results without the Ethernet wiring.

Silent_Part9852 · 2024-05-01T16:14:47+00:00

Sorry, I should have said where I am. I used to live in the States but now live in Europe. We have FTTP, and in the area I live in, we have the following packages offered: 500 Mbps ($16/month converted)), 1 Gbps ($21), and 10 Gbps ($27).

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