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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down
well at least i hope they will.At the last place I worked they wanted 30,000$ plus a 10 year contract to run fiber ~1,000ft.
I'm assuming your employer at the time passed on that "deal"?
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down
well at least i hope they will.At the last place I worked they wanted 30,000$ plus a 10 year contract to run fiber ~1,000ft.
I'm assuming your employer at the time passed on that "deal"?
It was for a redundant connection. We didn't need it but we were hosting... everything... in house.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
Hahah.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
ha. . . maybe 1% of us homes have fibre to the house. I'm in that lucky percentage.
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We asked for a site to have a leased line. Was told there was no free capacity on the Exchange/Cab, and BT wanted just over £100K to install!!!!
We said no we an't paying for the Upgrade to give everyone Fibre !!!! you do it and we will sign up under normal conditions
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
ha. . . maybe 1% of us homes have fibre to the house. I'm in that lucky percentage.
wow, didn't honestly know how it is out there!
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
ha. . . maybe 1% of us homes have fibre to the house. I'm in that lucky percentage.
wow, didn't honestly know how it is out there!
So most people on adsl??adsl or copper yeah.
And with our joke of a government it is likely to stay this way.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We asked for a site to have a leased line. Was told there was no free capacity on the Exchange/Cab, and BT wanted just over £100K to install!!!!
We said no we an't paying for the Upgrade to give everyone Fibre !!!! you do it and we will sign up under normal conditions
Yeah it's funny how much BT used to charge for leased lines a few years ago for businesses, they have dropped down a lot thankfully now.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
ha. . . maybe 1% of us homes have fibre to the house. I'm in that lucky percentage.
wow, didn't honestly know how it is out there!
So most people on adsl??adsl or copper yeah.
And with our joke of a government it is likely to stay this way.
Crazy, the top grossing country in the world and your government is not even investing in it's infrastructure...you could probably pay for it tenfold if you didn't spend as much on your military lol..
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....
The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.
I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.
Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?
ha. . . maybe 1% of us homes have fibre to the house. I'm in that lucky percentage.
wow, didn't honestly know how it is out there!
So most people on adsl??adsl or copper yeah.
And with our joke of a government it is likely to stay this way.
Crazy, the top grossing country in the world and your government is not even investing in it's infrastructure...you could probably pay for it tenfold if you didn't spend as much on your military lol..
Something something patriotism... something something socialism. 'Murica.
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@dbeato The Update File is below
https://files.zimbra.com/downloads/8.8.6_GA_HF/zcs-patch-8.8.6_GA_HF_108839.tgz -
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1264509#p3
It's starting! Here's hoping it meets the marketing.
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@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
Or most likely offering to pay SpaceX so NASA can't take the blame when something goes wrong.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
Or most likely offering to pay SpaceX so NASA can't take the blame when something goes wrong.
Totally not true. NASA itself is a great organization. Government bloat, sure, though even there not a lot as their budget has consistently shrunk year after year.
But the science and mission of NASA is great.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
Or most likely offering to pay SpaceX so NASA can't take the blame when something goes wrong.
Totally not true. NASA itself is a great organization. Government bloat, sure, though even there not a lot as their budget has consistently shrunk year after year.
But the science and mission of NASA is great.
This I agree with. They fund and support a huge portion of our climate science and most of our current understanding comes from NASA missions and satellites, as well as their counterparts in other countries.
While bloated I'm not convinced they should be doing commercial missions anyway.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
Or most likely offering to pay SpaceX so NASA can't take the blame when something goes wrong.
Totally not true. NASA itself is a great organization. Government bloat, sure, though even there not a lot as their budget has consistently shrunk year after year.
But the science and mission of NASA is great.
This I agree with. They fund and support a huge portion of our climate science and most of our current understanding comes from NASA missions and satellites, as well as their counterparts in other countries.
While bloated I'm not convinced they should be doing commercial missions anyway.
I don't get why NASA is doing climate science. We have NOAA for that. It is essentially a duplication/division of effort.
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver SpaceX seems to be in the headlines a lot these days, all these achievements, what's Nasa doing these days lol??
Learning from SpaceX on how to operate a tight ship. . .
Or most likely offering to pay SpaceX so NASA can't take the blame when something goes wrong.
Totally not true. NASA itself is a great organization. Government bloat, sure, though even there not a lot as their budget has consistently shrunk year after year.
But the science and mission of NASA is great.
This I agree with. They fund and support a huge portion of our climate science and most of our current understanding comes from NASA missions and satellites, as well as their counterparts in other countries.
While bloated I'm not convinced they should be doing commercial missions anyway.
I don't get why NASA is doing climate science. We have NOAA for that. It is essentially a duplication/division of effort.
If they worked in tandem with each other with defined scope, roles, and responsibilities, then I would see that being the best. NASA be in charge of getting the stuff into space. NOAA will take care of the satellite and reporting back. Heck. Cut NASA out and just contract with Space-X to get it up there. NASA is just the facilitator.
