We've got 250 Mbps, in theory. Probably not that fast in real life but very, very stable.
At home that is great.
Ours has been very stable for about three years, but with ATT ripping through all the existing data cables, splicing in and so forth. Ours goes out every day for half an hour or so.
Not acceptable for a business, but who gives a fuck about residential service.
I hesitate to even to talk about the twelve T3 lines at BBY. With that system it is not so much about actual quantity of data that can stream both ways as it is interlacing thousands of connections at the same time without dropping one.
But, Yeah. They need to update a few things again.
Thankfully nobody ever has to dig anywhere near the fibre - our house is a bit off and nothing is going on around it, no big building projects, nothing.
My Linksys main router seems to be the main cause of trouble, actually. It doesn't play along brilliantly with the TV or the Chromecast, so a reboot is needed every now and then. Some caching issue, I'd expect. Maybe it's time to look for new firmware again.
Last time I bought a router it was the best things since tits, the cat's meow, etc. One step down from the best you could get. I think I even posted pics, stupidly.
Now it is way outdated and it is really not that old (maybe I am just that old - as we both know, computer things are out of date before they hit the market) but for all the home wi-fi things that many use today, this one barely holds up. I only have the typical twelve or so in house, hand held devices and four shelf devices drawing through this thing, plus three lazy desk tops, and one security camera.
(GAWD, now that I addded up some of it, I really need to upgrade my wi-fi system, don't I?)
I am just not ready to spend a buttload of bucks on a new router and related system components. I have already got the most recent updates to the firmware, unless something newer just popped.
I have a standing rule - turn it off when you put it on charge. Keeps a bit of the bandwidth available, in my dreams.
There is a railroad track near the road (in fact the road splits to accommodate the train that used travel through the town) so the main stuff is about twenty feet down with an enormous "person" hole that accesses the data cables. Below that is a huge drainage/flood control "concrete river" that diverts all the local rain and snow melt to the big river which is about half a mile away.
So, hopefully, no more digging for a while.
