100MB FTTH (fiber optic)

...am I the first?

[bill]

I may not drive around in fancy cars nor have a lawn with grass on it, but I do have 100 MB fiber optic connection to the net in my house. I just plugged the fiber into my router a few minutes ago and now I'm off to play.

What the **** am I going to do with all this bandwidth?! Does anybody else have anything close ;) sorry I just had to gloat, and this is the only place I could think to do it

[Mike12345]

Can i come to your house for dinner? please ;)

[atadams]

You are not allowed to participate in the Webmaster World Deathmatch! You're the ultimate LPB! :)

[dmorison]

What the **** am I going to do with all this bandwidth?!

Pray that your ISP doesn't funnel you through a knackered Inktomi.

/not impressed with ntl: "broadband" today :(

[edited by: dmorison at 2:00 pm (utc) on June 11, 2003]

[DaveN]

sorry 10 meg fiber here only, and 2 meg adsl at home

dave

[mat]

Ha. Cable envy. Mine's only 2. Now, of course, I'm going to dedicate days to finding your IP and doing the dirty on you. Serves you right for being smug ;-)

[brotherhood of LAN]

Fancy putting the 'net on a couple of DVD's for me? I'll pay P and P ;)

[takagi]

My ADSL here at my home in Tokyo is officially 12MB, but that's not what I really get. Well, at this moment it is quick enough.

[trillianjedi]

Bill,

Excuse me for asking the obvious if slightly stupid question:-

Er, why?

If this is for hosting, do you feel that you get a decent return on it? I presume that 100mb fibre does not come cheap!

With the plethora of hosting companies out there all over the globe competing for their share in the market, unless your house has a massive basement stuffed full of servers I would be surprised that it's actually economic.

TJ

[mil2k]

I will not get such connection in the next 5 years. Hell I am not even getting a net connection at my home :(

[lukasz]

In Japan you can get ftth 100M for 5500yen per month which is less than 50 US$, and just a little bit more than ADSL. The set up cost are probably higher as adsl setup cost is 0.
Takagi my YBB ADSL is supposed to be 12M but is is closer to 2M.
Looks like a patern to me.

[BlobFisk]

For me to get a 256k connection at home means a frame-relay line - cost? About €8000pa.

Needless to say that at home, it's 56k heaven!

I'm jealous!

[bill]

Bill,

Excuse me for asking the obvious if slightly stupid question:-

Er, why?

Well in my area (Western Japan) fiber optic Internet connections to the home have been available for a few years. I just never knew anybody who got one for their home. My 20MB Cable connection cost me a little over ¥6000+ per month (about $50 US). A fiber optic plan was offered by an electric company that was the cheapest I'd seen yet, at ¥4000 per month (about $30+ US).

I could not pass up on the extreme geek factor being the first person I knew to have a 100MB connection to their house. Even with the installation it still comes out cheaper than cable on an annual basis.

[AAnnAArchy]

Aw, I only have 3MB. I'm totally envious, although when my cable went down last week and I had to use 56k, I fell back in love with my cable connection when it came back. Hmmm, sushi and 100MB connection - here I come, Japan!

[trillianjedi]

$30 a month for a 100mb pipe?

Hmmm.... something missing here.

What's the contention ratio?

TJ

[brotherhood of LAN]

Hopefully UK prices end up like Japan's, both countries are about the same size, so we are all crammed into the same amount of space, not much cable needed for us, just those fat pipes. ;)

Broadband is finally reaching some of the more remote parts of the UK, can't wait for these mother beast connections to come our way - hopefully at about the same price too. $30-$50 a month is well worth it, even for a fairly casual surfer who just likes his mod-cons :)

[WibbleWobble]

I presume all these ultra-high bandwidth options are still measured in megabits (Mb), and not megabytes (MB)? :\

[bill]

I presume all these ultra-high bandwidth options are still measured in megabits (Mb), and not megabytes (MB)? :\

WibbleWobble I stand corrected...100Mbps is the proper way to indicate my connection speed.

What's the contention ratio?

trillianjedi that's a really good question that I haven't been able to find an answer to. I was digging through my new service provider's website looking for this sort of info and didn't come across anything. I'm very new to fiber connections and don't know whether a contention ratio would be as big a factor as cable or xDSL services. I'll certainly keep looking.

[caine]

Even a 10mb pipe is still very expensive. 100MB is a massive pipe of the ILK that medium to major ISPs use, or massive sites. One friend has a 30meg pipe on a system, which gets 1m visitors a day, and they pay big for it, well should do but their parent company is BT in the UK.