What would you do with.

[wheel]

What would you do with fibre to your door?

What would your neighbours do with fibre to their door?

What would your grandparents do with fibre to their door?

Asking for a reason :).

[tangor]

Most times fiber is pretty good for the digestion and facilities good metabolic balance.

If you are talking about broadband, then the answer is "can I afford it and do I want to play in this new tech right now?"

The only thing that fiber can give you over ADSL or regular cable is more speed. IF, in your area, you have to pay to have the fiber ready cable installed (it's actually copper, double weight, not glass fiber to the house from the tanspoint or substation), then you have to decide if you are happy being an early adopter and paying the company's expansion of that tech in your 'hood. There's some infrastructure I'm personally not willing to pay in early days. :)

[LifeinAsia]

Me: probably not a whole lot- already have sufficient speed to stream movies.
Neighbors: probably nothing- most are fairly offline or only use the Internet for e-mail/social media.
Grandparents: definitely nothing- they're all dead.

[wheel]

Fibre's not new tech. It's seen as new tech where private companies are doing internet. There's at least 3 local co-ops within an hour's drive of where I live that put fibre to the door in rural areas. I have a friend that lives on a gravel road on a farm. Fibre right to the door.

Anyway, this is what I'm thinking:
Me - Work from home. bring my servers/websites from the colo faciility saving $500/month. Go full scale on internet TV. Probably put up some webcams in our bush lot.
Neighbours - Work from home. Increased resale value of their home. Expand their website offerings. Probably move TV and phone to online.
Grandparents - Go with unlimited long distance, maybe figure out skype for the grandkids.

[LifeinAsia]

bring my servers/websites from the colo faciility saving $500/month.

I wouldn't do that unless you don't have a problem with your sites being down for an extended period of time.

Most likely they have multiple connections to the Internet compared to your 1 fibre channel (if they don't, you should consider a different colo facility). Also, Internet connectivity is just one aspect of colo. They should also have sufficient battery/generator power for when the power goes out, as well as industrial level UPS to prevent against major power spikes. Depending on how many servers you have, it may not be that much of an issue, but they should also have redundant cooling to keep the servers from overheating. Do you have a Halon system to protect your servers in case of fire? A raised floor to protect against flooding? A security system to limit access and prevent someone from stealing/damaging your servers?

(Oh, and I actually DO have fiber- FIOS.)

[tangor]

Me - Work from home. bring my servers/websites from the colo faciility saving $500/month.

If your servers (at the p4rice) are generating enough income to cover that, pay your salary, fill the supply chain with product, and pay your employees, then you just need a T1, a concrete bunker, redundant power (for off times) and a backup from Hell.

Otherwise, you're paying too much for your hosting and Fiber won't make a difference in that.

I do like the work at home... but if you can connect your site at the same speed as your users, you're i n the game from the get go.

And if your traffic/bandwidth is that dollar amount, then you certainly don't want to put all your eggs on one basket (your house). Been there, done that, lived to regret it. :)

The "What would you do with" question is about YOU, not your site... as that run along a different network than consumer linkage (or should!).

[chewy]

Not feeling constrained by bandwidth when on a basic broadband cable connection.

And all the grandmothers and grandfathers I know that have seem quite happy with it.

Sure it is a bit slow at times, but it seems good enough.

However, I know that I might feel differently if we actually had super-high speed access.

Going from dialup to broadband was a huge eye-opener. What is it like to go from mega to terabyte speeds?

At one point, having a huge unrestricted pipe seemed like a way to create a village wide mesh based wifi network for FREE - and that might be a lot of fun and really cool for the community.

That said, I sure as heck wouldn't be hosting any production servers in my home without all the requisite redundancies. No need to even try that, so I suppose running a wifi network might actually have similar overhead issues; so there goes that dream as well!

[bill]

I've had FTTH for about 13 years now. Not sure what I'd do without it now. I have a fully wired LAN setup supporting more PCs than I care to mention. The fiber also carries all my phone and TV connections as well. Although there are some noticeable contention issues when the network is fully loaded, generally speeds are quite good. Much better than the old DSL and ISDN speeds of the past that I had to endure.

I have tried to run various services off my connection, but nothing on a production level. Despite the FTTH speeds I'd like to keep my ISP happy. I've had a few warnings over the years. ;)