[LINK] FTTP soon normal

[Kim Holburn]

On 2014/Apr/28, at 8:41 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> In practice there may be little difference between FTTP and FTTN, due to 
> the last 3m, in old homes.


That is just silly.  That's like saying there may be little difference between FTTP and FTTN because some households have computers with only 100Mb ethernet connectors.

If you can't install 1Gb copper ethernet then you could use 802.11ac which has a potential bandwidth of 1.7Gbps

> The theoretical max speed of 802.11ac is eight 160MHz 256-QAM channels, each of which are capable of 866.7Mbps — a grand total of 6,933Mbps, or just shy of 7Gbps. That’s a transfer rate of 900 megabytes per second — more than you can squeeze down a SATA 3 link. In the real world, due to channel contention, you probably won’t get more than two or three 160MHz channels, so the max speed comes down to somewhere between 1.7Gbps and 2.5Gbps. Compare this with 802.11n’s max theoretical speed, which was 600Mbps.


http://www.extremetech.com/computing/160837-what-is-802-11ac-and-how-much-faster-than-802-11n-is-it



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