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What would you do with a 10 Gbps residential internet connection? Come on, you can tell the truth (porn). Hell, with 10 Gbps download speed, you could download all the porn on the internet in no time.

I met with James Busch—a radiologist and the proud owner of what I am almost certain is the first 10 Gbps residential connection in the United States—at a coffee shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I told him about my trials and tribulations with Time Warner Cable in New York City, and he tried to drum up some empathy from a distant past in which he used to send medical imaging studies on a T1 line in Boston. I reminded him that most of us were still on dialup at the time. And then I raised the point that his family alone is living in our blazing fast future.
 
It's not hard to get a 10 Gbps connection for your home. It's just damn expensive. We have fiber down the road and a lot of it feeds the Amazon data centers in town (4 with another 2 being constructed). The bandwidth is there. Just the cash isn't. What sucks is we have 25 Mb DSL as our fastest service. No cable internet. Wireless is a joke.
 
10 gigs. That's how you spell Internet in Provo
Yeah, with a zero.

//A billboard that I see when driving home from work

...I'm fine with my meager 1gb.
Though I never see speeds that fast. At the absolute fastest, I've seen 75MB down (from Origin), with Steam usually in the 20-30 MB range (and on one computer, 7MB, for some reason... though that same computer can easily get 80-100MB/s off of my NAS).
 
After reading that story I would consider that a business grade service and force him to start paying business rates if he is using it to work out a home office. That isn't residential at that point.
 
Ur_Mom said:
What sucks is we have 25 Mb DSL as our fastest service. No cable internet. Wireless is a joke.
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Mine is wireless. 5 Mb is the fastest speed 'offered' as of now and I LOVE it over dial-up (my only other option and a big middle finger to TDSnet)! It all depends on who you ask.
 
Exavior said:
After reading that story I would consider that a business grade service and force him to start paying business rates if he is using it to work out a home office. That isn't residential at that point.
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Show us your EPB work ID or GTFO who are you to determine that?
 
I know a guy with the Comcast 2gbps plan at his house. They actually run 10G fiber and then rate limit on the router they provide; he knows some guys and got the rate limit disabled. So I don't think this guy is the first. :)

10G is probably overkill at home though, I have 1G and it's overkill.
 
toast0 said:
I know a guy with the Comcast 2gbps plan at his house. They actually run 10G fiber and then rate limit on the router they provide; he knows some guys and got the rate limit disabled. So I don't think this guy is the first. :)

10G is probably overkill at home though, I have 1G and it's overkill.
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So he can hit their data cap even faster. Cool.
 
Since when is "10g" cutting edge? Maybe for internet....but hasnt' 10G fiber been around for ~ 11 years or something?
10G (fiber) nics are $20 or less on ebay these days.
 
Makaveli@BETA said:
Show us your EPB work ID or GTFO who are you to determine that?
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I don't work for that ISP, however do work for an ISP. If we see a person advertise their home phone number as a business number we have in many cases started charging them business rates since they are a business then and not a home user. Better yet are the people that call and bitch that their phone or internet is down and that they run a business out of their home so we are costing them money. Bring up needing to switch them to a business account and they change their tone.

In this case, the dr talks about needing high speed internet at home due to the number of large files that are required to download for his practice. 1 Gbps was enough because with all the work he does his family wasn't able to watch 4K streaming and use face time. Which means that he is using it more for work than he is home. So by that logic if a connection is really used to run a DR practice that is being used for business purposes and thus I would consider that more of a business customer than I would a residential customer.

doesn't mean that I actually can make him start paying business rates as I don't work for his ISP. However if I did i would strongly be considering that as a case to switch if this wasn't just given to him as some type of marketing ploy to start with.
 
Exavior said:
I don't work for that ISP, however do work for an ISP. If we see a person advertise their home phone number as a business number we have in many cases started charging them business rates since they are a business then and not a home user. Better yet are the people that call and bitch that their phone or internet is down and that they run a business out of their home so we are costing them money. Bring up needing to switch them to a business account and they change their tone.

In this case, the dr talks about needing high speed internet at home due to the number of large files that are required to download for his practice. 1 Gbps was enough because with all the work he does his family wasn't able to watch 4K streaming and use face time. Which means that he is using it more for work than he is home. So by that logic if a connection is really used to run a DR practice that is being used for business purposes and thus I would consider that more of a business customer than I would a residential customer.

doesn't mean that I actually can make him start paying business rates as I don't work for his ISP. However if I did i would strongly be considering that as a case to switch if this wasn't just given to him as some type of marketing ploy to start with.
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Where I stand is that if it is a "home business" and the person paying for the service is fine with the uptime of the residential service, then they should not be forced to pay for the "business" service which almost always has some sort of SLA attached to it and generally is slower and costs about 2-3x more minimum.

That is just stupid, and a money grabbing ploy for to get more money those people who don't need the business class SLA.
 
Exavior said:
I don't work for that ISP, however do work for an ISP. If we see a person advertise their home phone number as a business number we have in many cases started charging them business rates since they are a business then and not a home user. Better yet are the people that call and bitch that their phone or internet is down and that they run a business out of their home so we are costing them money. Bring up needing to switch them to a business account and they change their tone.

In this case, the dr talks about needing high speed internet at home due to the number of large files that are required to download for his practice. 1 Gbps was enough because with all the work he does his family wasn't able to watch 4K streaming and use face time. Which means that he is using it more for work than he is home. So by that logic if a connection is really used to run a DR practice that is being used for business purposes and thus I would consider that more of a business customer than I would a residential customer.

doesn't mean that I actually can make him start paying business rates as I don't work for his ISP. However if I did i would strongly be considering that as a case to switch if this wasn't just given to him as some type of marketing ploy to start with.
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I think isp shouldn't care if you run a business or not from HOME. If the service got installed at a business location and customer lied saying it was a home then it's another thing.
 
Exavior said:
I don't work for that ISP, however do work for an ISP. If we see a person advertise their home phone number as a business number we have in many cases started charging them business rates since they are a business then and not a home user. Better yet are the people that call and bitch that their phone or internet is down and that they run a business out of their home so we are costing them money. Bring up needing to switch them to a business account and they change their tone.

In this case, the dr talks about needing high speed internet at home due to the number of large files that are required to download for his practice. 1 Gbps was enough because with all the work he does his family wasn't able to watch 4K streaming and use face time. Which means that he is using it more for work than he is home. So by that logic if a connection is really used to run a DR practice that is being used for business purposes and thus I would consider that more of a business customer than I would a residential customer.

doesn't mean that I actually can make him start paying business rates as I don't work for his ISP. However if I did i would strongly be considering that as a case to switch if this wasn't just given to him as some type of marketing ploy to start with.
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GTFO! He didn't say he was running a business from home, he said he does some work at home. His practice isn't in his house, nor is it addressed there. By your definition anyone that does any sort of work at home (either telecommuting or simply doing paperwork at home after hours on an issued corporate laptop) would be paying business rates. People like you are exactly what is wrong with the telecom industry. Money grubbing bastards.
 
"Business class" anything in terms of ISP has always meant you are paying for the 99.9% uptime that's practically guarenteed. Either with redunant lines or whatever... bandwidth in either class of service is the same price (dirt cheap)

The only time a consumer really has a right to bitch is if he's paying the 300 or 400% more for business class service and the line goes down. If you are a residential customer paying residential rates, you don't really have a leg to stand on if your service goes down, or gets congested at certian times of the day.

We have business class fiber connecting two major facilites between DFW, TX and Houston... it's never gone down, not in years and years and years because it's mission critical and would cause massive losses in production if it did. Bet your ass the company pays a pretty penny for it too.
 
I can't even afford 10gb in the office computer room :mad:
The 1gb connections on the servers are really starting to show their age, but upgrading the switches to 10gb still costs too much.
 
Smells like marketing. I guess he can download his Steam library really fast.

I'm fine with 150mbps, and it seems like even that is overkill for most of the Web.
 
This guy has an 10 times better internet than my whole neighborhood combined!
 
dali71 said:
It is, and EPB's customer service is just as impressive.
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Yeah, their service is insane compared to other network companies. Likely comes from being an electricity grid provided designed around 100% uptime and have trucks on standby 24/7 for any issues. And since they route along the electrical grid, pretty much any network problem will also be an electrical problem (the whole point of the network in the first place).
 
Exavior said:
After reading that story I would consider that a business grade service and force him to start paying business rates if he is using it to work out a home office. That isn't residential at that point.
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I think they are probably willing to let it slide. EPB is pretty insanely generous overall. No data caps. Can get extra IPs easily. Did I mention no data caps, like they are actually against data caps. Also the guy in question is in charge of informatics for his Radiology group and it is likely that all of their locations and offices also get biz internet from EPBfi.
 
toast0 said:
I know a guy with the Comcast 2gbps plan at his house. They actually run 10G fiber and then rate limit on the router they provide; he knows some guys and got the rate limit disabled. So I don't think this guy is the first. :)

10G is probably overkill at home though, I have 1G and it's overkill.
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No he's the first. EPBfi rolled out 10g before comcast announced 2g service. And he was one of the first 10g installs that EPBfi did.

As far as overkill, he can easily fill 1gb/s just with his job.
 
cyclone3d said:
Where I stand is that if it is a "home business" and the person paying for the service is fine with the uptime of the residential service, then they should not be forced to pay for the "business" service which almost always has some sort of SLA attached to it and generally is slower and costs about 2-3x more minimum.

That is just stupid, and a money grabbing ploy for to get more money those people who don't need the business class SLA.
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Don't know the current biz pricing but there appeared to be two 10g biz packages from when this was all announced, a $1600 per month small/medium biz and a $9000 per month large biz package. It appears that the large biz package also includes dual physical routing. Both likely came with multiple IPs and strict SLAs.

As far as the person in question, it is likely that the vast majority of his bandwidth is all in network which basically costs EPBfi nothing to provide. In fact, it is likely that even inbound bandwidth costs them nothing to provide. Typically end point networks only pay for outgoing bandwidth and it is likely that EPBfi even with symmetrical connections is heavily inbound biased.
 
in the dial-up era I used to open a dozen of webpages, disconnect, read them all, reconnect again.
 
Tuan Nguyen over at PCGamer/MaximumPC recently wrote a long article about getting a 2Gbps connection to his place that includes pics of his street being torn up and the connection being installed entitled "What it's like to have the fastest internet in the country"..

I live in south San Jose, California, and it was one of the cities on Comcast's deployment map.. I called into Comcast's offices to get an update on the company's deployment of fiber Internet service. The rep told me, "Yeah, it looks like fiber is available now in your neighborhood." I replied, "I want it right away."

After agreeing to the terms and the setup fee of $1000, Comcast told me it would take up to eight weeks to actually get the service up and running. It could be a lengthy process, as they needed to complete a survey of my house, plan the fiber run, apply for permits if necessary, and then perform the actual construction.

Comcast tells me that its Gigabit Pro service is now available in all of its fiber service areas across the country. To find out if you're living in a fiber zone, give Comcast a call.

As far as I know, there aren't any caps on residential fiber connections. Comcast's Gigabit Pro service has no caps of any kind, and that's actually part of the company's list of benefits for its fiber service.

At this point, I have to say I probably have faster Internet speeds than 99.999% of the US, and probably the world in general. In a chat with Comcast's PR team, I was asked, "So what are you doing with such insane speeds?" I said, "Downloading huge things illegally." We both had a good laugh, and then there was some silence. They then asked what it was like having 2 gigabit fiber metro Ethernet piped directly into my room. I said, "It's fucking awesome."
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I'm a little baffled when it comes to patriotism or any other form of showing love for your home country Americans are so vocal and tend to acknowledge your countries greatness.

When it comes to broadband internet every company that waves the flag and stands tall during The star spangled banner somehow goes tone deaf to the "needs" of the American people.

Do something about it..
 
Pieter3dnow said:
I'm a little baffled when it comes to patriotism or any other form of showing love for your home country Americans are so vocal and tend to acknowledge your countries greatness.

When it comes to broadband internet every company that waves the flag and stands tall during The star spangled banner somehow goes tone deaf to the "needs" of the American people.

Do something about it..
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It's hard when cronyism is rooted in our government and the majority of the voting populace doesn't care.
 
The article is tagged "Daaaaamn". :cool:

I can only imagine he spent thousands on NICs, fiber, routers and switches to make that setup work. I saw the picture of his "rack" and I was counting over $5000 there. 25Mbps is OK for $40/month. I miss 150Mbps, but only once in a while. I never miss paying twice as much every month.
 
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