Your internet connection?
- Thread starter Jordan
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This. Interesting stuff!
11-02-2011
"The best fiber optic network in Europe belongs to PT
PT has just been awarded the Innovation Award in the "FTTH Deployment and Operation of Networks", corresponding to the best and most innovative implementation of Fiber Optic Network in Europe.
The award was given during the FTTH Innovation Awards in Milan, an initiative that is promoted by the FTTH Council Europe. The award, which the PT has applied to the project "Ultra Broadband Business and Network Transformation in Portugal Telecom, has recognized the company's commitment to modernize the infrastructure of telecommunications in Portugal through the implementation of a fiber optic network that to customers' homes.
Zeinal Bava, CEO of Portugal Telecom, attended the ceremony of FTTH Innovation Awards and emphasizes that "Portugal Telecom has always positioned itself at the forefront of the development and implementation of leading technologies. For us, the investment in fiber optics was never a question of "if" but "when", since we believe this is the only proven technology capable of ensuring the future provision of broadband services to high speed to our business and residential customers. Moreover, the transformation of our business model has been strongly supported by an aggressive deployment of fiber to the home even, an essential part of our offer of cloud computing to enterprise customers and our supply of Meo for residential customers. The award recognizes the high level of outstanding work, commitment and dedication of teams of PT, and the success of the strategy we adopted, which focuses on innovation, operational implementation and partnerships with industry leaders, so that we can offer our customers in Portugal the best and most advanced services available in the market. "
Recall that PT currently has more than one million dwellings covered with fiber optics, following a significant effort to implement a network FTTH (Fiber to the Home), started in April 2009. In 2011, the operator aims to strengthen this network with 600 000 additional houses, which represent the use of about 300,000 kilometers of fiber and the involvement of around 1,500 people, including PT employees and external suppliers. To reach 1.6 million homes, the operator will further enhance the penetration of homes with this technology, which will stand at about 50% of households in Portugal.
The widespread use of Internet, the exponential growth of data traffic, coupled with a growing need for higher bandwidth access, meant that the PT anticipate trends and invest in fiber in its fixed network and also on the mobile network with preparation for the 4th Generation Mobile, as well as providing storage services and data processing capability through the creation of one of the largest data centers in Europe, to be built in Covington.
This cross-cutting strategy and sustained investment have now been recognized by the FTTH Council Europe, which examines the work of companies and industry organizations Fiber Optic who have distinguished themselves by their innovation, creativity and capacity for technology implementation. The nominees are selected annually by an independent jury of experts from academia."
UK is getting the fastest in Europe this year. 100mbps optical.
So the marketing goes... I think each European country will say they have the fastest in Europe when they have the same fibre to home technology.
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- 1,255
- Indiana
- camaroyenko
- No....just no.
My connection?
Crap. It's just, crap.
Crap. It's just, crap.
- 7,662
- Pasadena, MD
- Minty TS
Have to deal with this for 2 weeks while on vacation.
Were moving to a different spot in a few days, and it's away from all of these trees, so I should be able to get a much better connection with this Verizon air card.
So I went from bad, to terrible, and then 4 days after I go back home I'm upgrading to FiOS, so it should be far better.
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If I move about 8 feet to the left of where I was sitting in my camper, I get this:
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- 7,662
- Pasadena, MD
- Minty TS
This is just so I can be sure of something, but I'm switing to FiOS tomorrow, so I should be moving really fast compared to what I have now.
Funny thing is for getting cable boxes for 8 TV's, and Universal DVR(can watch all recordings on any TV with a box), On Demand, Amazing internet speed, and phone, it's only $10 a month more than what we currently pay for the unreliable garbage that is Broadtripe.
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Cale
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- Rochester, NY
- CaleDeRoo
This is what mine is supposed to be, but about a month ago I verbally abused Time Warner over the phone for slow internet, and now it's around 35Mb/s down. Still .97Mb/s upload though. My ping is stellar while playing TF2 however. It's under 20ms while in game, and around 40% of the time it's in single digits.
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Why does it say you're faster than more of the US than I am?
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This is what mine is supposed to be, but about a month ago I verbally abused Time Warner over the phone for slow internet, and now it's around 35Mb/s down. Still .97Mb/s upload though. My ping is stellar while playing TF2 however. It's under 20ms while in game, and around 40% of the time it's in single digits.
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Why does it say you're faster than more of the US than I am?
Yours is faster than the one you quoted, and yet it says the slower one is faster than more people in the US than yours.
US is in America for those that don't know.
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