• TheMurphy
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    811 months ago

    This is like arguing that SMS is still a good messaging platform.

    • falsem
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      11 months ago

      No it’s not? Fiber is a bad solution for short runs for residential use inside people’s homes. Copper can pull 10 gig speeds or more.

      • TheMurphy
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        111 months ago

        Well, almost all apartments in the city I live in has fiber. They all have a box in a corner somewhere.

        Then we pull a standard ethernet cable to our router and we run full speed.

        Maybe I’m not knowledgeable enough on the area, but why is that bad?

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          211 months ago

          They are arguing that inside the nlhouse ople don’t use fiber, they use the ethernet copper cable from the router. Which is like, fine, okay, that’s true, but also not at all what people are arguing and not something that should be required to be pointed out in this context.

          People are arguing that in some US cities the Internet distribution is done through copper for the whole building/complex, and just like you, in my home there’s a fiber port into my router, which then I use cat7 copper cables for my stuff. But up until my router there’s fiber, which is awesome.

          Anyway I hope this clarifies it.