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Old 16th January, 2003, 04:44 PM
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Optical cable?
Is there any chance that optical cable to connect to the Web will ever be available to humble home user's?
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Old 16th January, 2003, 08:44 PM
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I would have thought so, but I doubt it will be for awhile, but then again I dont know how much equipment is needed to turn the optical signal into something a computer can use so maybe I'am completely wrong.
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Re: Optical cable?
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Is there any chance that optical cable to connect to the Web will ever be available to humble home user's?
Why? You pining for an OC-1 connection? OC-1 (OC = Optical Carrier) the smallest sensible connection for fibre. Small in this case means 51.84Mbit/sec...

Copper doesn't do badly, and is way cheaper than single mode glass fibre!

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Well if you live in the denver area on this side of the pond you can get ftth (fiber to the home). Only in a limited area but i hear it is very very neat. Everything is across that fiber tel, cable, internet, ect.... I think they use multimode fiber. The cool plastic stuff.
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Why? You pining for an OC-1 connection? OC-1 (OC = Optical Carrier) the smallest sensible connection for fibre. Small in this case means 51.84Mbit/sec...

Copper doesn't do badly, and is way cheaper than single mode glass fibre!

Áedán

Yes, I definitely need the 51.84 mbit per second bandwidth. Why? Because I'm a greedy pig. I want all of the Net and everything on it for me, Me, ME. And it better be free, Free, FREE.

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