On Friday, December 10, 2010 03:12 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Thursday 09 December 2010 11:00:58 Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> Or would you prefer paying kilobucks per month for a tariffed OC3/12/48
>>> or Gigabit provisioned Metro E? (that's all I can get, and it does cost
>>> kilobucks to get it).
>>
>> Is this residential? One can get 1G symmetric fibre from HKBN for less
>> than 30USD/mnth if you live in a block of apartments. See below. (Please
>> note troll hat on my head)
>>
>> ----------------------
>> FibreHome 1000 Basic Plan
>> - installation fee waiver
>>
>> â Basic monthly fee $199
>> â Contract duration 24 months
>> â Maximum bandwidth (local access) 1000Mbps Upload/Download
>> â Maximum bandwidth (overseas access) 20Mbps Upload/Download
>> â Installation fee $0
> [snip]
>
> Sorry, I fail to understand how is this a 1G link? It clearly says that you
> have only 20Mbps uplink to the rest of the world (I guess that's what
> "overseas" mean).
Residential link...we don't care that much about overseas bandwidth, not
unless we are into the DOSing business :-p
>
> Granted, the cabling may be able to withstand a 1000Mbps throughput (for
> whatever "local" network may be). But it's not the same thing as having a real
> 1G uplink, which would be much more expensive. Especially if it is symmetric.
>
> Or have I misunderstood something here?
One gets 1G to hosts local to Hong Kong. Like the local Centos mirrors.
>
> Btw, what part of the world are you in, geographically? That would probably
> clear up my understanding of "overseas" and "local" accesses... :-)
Hong Kong.
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