"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s internet connection to select cities in the Paris region. For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. >From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""
At least that would finally enable Bluewin-TV ;-)))
SCNR Viktor
Xaver Aerni wrote:
/"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are //offering 2.5 Gb/s internet connection/ http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/ftth-experience-18331// to select cities in the Paris region. For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""/
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Hello,
For info there is small FTTH networks in CH ;) Not so fast but anyway it's a beginning.
Regards,
Nico
At least that would finally enable Bluewin-TV ;-)))
SCNR Viktor
Xaver Aerni wrote:
/"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are //offering 2.5 Gb/s internet connection/ http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/ftth-experience-18331// to select cities in the Paris region. For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""/
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On the Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Xaver Aerni blubbered:
Hi all.
For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""
But then, isn't France the country where it is illegal to use encryption? No more SSH?
Besides that, in France it is illegal to distribute software that allows the transfer of pirated works. This might enclose programs such as "Azureus", "Firefox", "wget", "ftp"... (shall I go on?)
CU, Venty
P.S. About Azureus: Try downloading the DVD image of Kubuntu without using Bittorrent. Good luck.
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Hello,
It's only 2 providers filtering on many others. Downloading for personal use is not prohibed till you dont redistribute. Anyway with European law's it will come in all countries. But anyway your argument is right for internet connections. But with such nice pipes you easily can provide nice HD TV or other nice contents.
Cu,
Nico
On the Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Xaver Aerni blubbered:
Hi all.
For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""
But then, isn't France the country where it is illegal to use encryption? No more SSH?
Besides that, in France it is illegal to distribute software that allows the transfer of pirated works. This might enclose programs such as "Azureus", "Firefox", "wget", "ftp"... (shall I go on?)
CU, Venty
P.S. About Azureus: Try downloading the DVD image of Kubuntu without using Bittorrent. Good luck.
On the Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:38:57PM +0200, Nicolas Strina blubbered:
Hi.
It's only 2 providers filtering on many others. Downloading for personal use is not prohibed till you dont redistribute. Anyway with European law's it will come in all countries. But anyway your argument is right for internet connections. But with such nice pipes you easily can provide nice HD TV or other nice contents.
Well, I'd first have to get a faster computer then to play HDTV stuff. That Creative Commons movie called "The Elephants Dream" did not play on the PC. The Playstation 2 with homebrew player SMS[1] would have played it alright. One wonders, how this can be done with only one 235 MHz MIPS CPU (the "Emotion Engine"). But then the PS2's ethernet module, although it talks 100Base-TX as the protocol, effective throughput is only about 10 to 12 MBit/s or so. It could not handle the necessary bandwidth for streaming that hi-res divx, causing it to stutter really ugly during busy scenes.
Okee, it starts growing rather off-topic. Anyone interested in (ab)using their Playstation 2, either follow that link[1] below, or ask me at the next Beer Event. =:-)
CU, Venty
Hi Nico
On 7/26/06, Nicolas Strina nicolas.strina@noc.ip-man.net wrote:
Hello,
It's only 2 providers filtering on many others. Downloading for personal use is not prohibed till you dont redistribute. Anyway with European law's it will come in all countries. But anyway your argument is right for internet connections. But with such nice pipes you easily can provide nice HD TV or other nice contents.
Say, like viruses, SPAM, some UDP packets or simply a buch of identical http GETs to signal your existence (or rather your lack of care) to others? Clearly, we woulf fill up the two gigs with ssh ;). I don't want to see such pipes in the hands of most users.
Michi
Am 26.07.2006 um 15:48 schrieb Xaver Aerni:
"Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s internet connection to select cities in the Paris region. For... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): "The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.""
Just to remind everyone drooling here, that GPON is a shared medium, just like Coax (TDM/TDMA), and the bandwidth is usually split to 32 or 64 users, use your bc(1) to figure out what the maximum speed per user is. Just like nobody gets the 40MBits/s on Cable, the Frogs won't get GBits/s.
Of course it is a little bit infuriating. If I lived 10 meters farther south, I'd be getting 20MBits/s for 15 €, instead I'm getting 2MBits/s for 70 CHF from MonpolyCom.
Cheers, -daniel
On the Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:00:17PM +0200, Daniel G. Kluge blubbered:
Hi.
Of course it is a little bit infuriating. If I lived 10 meters farther south, I'd be getting 20MBits/s for 15 ?, instead I'm getting 2MBits/s for 70 CHF from MonpolyCom.
1. Get long power cord and weather proof case. 2. Put WLAN access point in weatcher proof case. 3. Connect power 4. Enjoy
(Alternatively, you could also use wired network instead)
CU, Venty
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