What are your thoughts on fiber through the city? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content download given a possible VPN leak. I know this is highly subjective but I want to understand all the possibilities what could happen.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

ive been making jokes about 'fiber to the desktop' since 1996. funny we still are not quite there are we. so close!

in my experience, the faster the pipe, the less inspection. its a cost thing.. when we were paying 500$/moonth for a 64k pipe (yeah thats right), you bet your ass we're going to sit on people doin illegal/hogging shit. every bit was expensive. when we updated to 1.54mbps t1 things got slightly more lax, but still, usage mattered, hence DPI, packet shaping and the like. when broadband came people just stopped paying attention.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I've heard of people doing fiber to the desktop in their homelabs. Seems a little overkill, but it's the cool factor that counts!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

seeeems like overkill, but i also remember optimizing my 40MB hard drive making jokes in IRC about someday having a 1GB hard drive! no way!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There's no realistic scenario where the fiber for the street comes to your desktop. Some homelabs have fiber from the street to a switch/router, then more fiber from there to the desktop.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Connecting to a switch/router doesn't change anything, that's just how the Internet works. The fiber from the street is almost certainly connected to switches before it gets to your house as well.

If anything would break the "fiber to the desktop" meme, it's the fact that most residential ISP ONTs I'm aware of do not support SFP, which means that you'd have to get copper out of the ONT, then convert it back into fiber. You'd have to get lucky with an ISP that has compatible options.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My father just had the electricians pull in Cat 7 Ethernet at a friends place, but they used Cat 6 terminators. After that fiasco we were also discussing if it woulnd't have been simpler to have them pull fiber and use media converters plus a switch with some SFP+ and SFP slots.