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Speed test :)
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:09 am
by VladSun
I was surprised to see this

Feels good
http://www.netindex.com/
Top Ten Countries
World Cities
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:36 am
by Weirdan
Also Bulgaria has the lowest average cost per mbps
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:08 pm
by VladSun
Yeah, haven't noticed that
Sofia, BG is $0.67 USD per MBps, the next (2nd place) town/country has $1.09 USD rate per MBps which is almost twice as much as in Sofia/Bulgaria. Fabulous
PS: That reminds me of an old topic here
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=77087&start=0
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:47 pm
by Weirdan
Yeah... I was wrong back then though, fiber optics for the last mile haven't yet come to fashion.
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:53 am
by VladSun
A friend if mine has started building a passive fibre optics ISP network. I.e. there are only two active devices - media converter at the client and fibre optic switch port at the technical center. In other words - one fibre optic, one client
Still not come a fashion though, but more and more ISPs started to offer it.
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:19 am
by Weirdan
VladSun wrote:In other words - one fibre optic, one client

That's what we had here 3 years ago. Since then ISPs
stopped offering it (it's still fibre last mile, but copper to apartment) 'cause copper is cheaper for end user and there's no actual demand for speed exceeding 100Mbps yet.
Re: Speed test :)
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:12 am
by VladSun
According to my friend, fibre optics itself is cheaper than U/F/SF/TP. Only the media converter (~30$) is a bit more expensive, but it's paid back in a few months because of the lower support related costs.
Almost every ISP here offers telephony/TV over Ethernet, so it's critical to have 100Mbit connectivity to endusers.