Why Fiber is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G

[learninmypc]

The United States, its states, and its local governments are in dire need of universal fiber plans. Major telecom carriers such as AT&T and Verizon have discontinued their fiber-to-the-home efforts, leaving most people facing expensive cable monopolies for the future. While much of the Internet infrastructure has already transitioned to fiber, a supermajority of households and businesses across the country still have slow and outdated connections. Transitioning the “last mile” into fiber will require a massive effort from industry and government—an effort the rest of the world has already started. FULL ARTICLE

 

[DelJo63]

Well, due to the market hype, Last-Mile-Fiber has dropped off the radar and focus now is on getting 5G deployed.

There has been all kinds of shenanigans pulled by the major networks -- many are not aware that your upload and download times SHOULD have been identical? Instead, we have an asymmetrical network as that money went elsewhere.

 

[TheDevopsGuy]

Well, due to the market hype, Last-Mile-Fiber has dropped off the radar and focus now is on getting 5G deployed.

There has been all kinds of shenanigans pulled by the major networks -- many are not aware that your upload and download times SHOULD have been identical? Instead, we have an asymmetrical network as that money went elsewhere.

Were lucky if we even get Asymmetrical networking without some type of policing or QoS throttling from the ISP what a time to live in.