And, if you were like the prior tenants at my house, and did not take advantage of the free hookup to the house, you will have to fork out $400 to get service installed.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Wow! You just woke up yesterday izzit?
The fibre optic backbone was installed last year and a large majority of the population is already hooked up. The three major providers of services have been selling it on their site and shops for some time now. However, you need to be aware that the overseas data bandwide is capped at 15 Mbps while adsl & cable is around 25 Mbps.
I daresay almost all of Singapore is already aware of this fact. Glad you could wake up & join us.
The 15Mbps is because of the backbone of other countries, it is not capped at all by Singapore, it is just not ready to connect in many countries, so naturally there will be a bottleneck!aster wrote:I recall reading about the massive internet overhaul in Singapore and one of the interesting points was that all traffic (or at least the main "pipeline") was supposed to be routed via HK to give Singapore a proper link to the world so to speak. Has something along those lines happened? Seemed extremely odd reading it at the time...
I posed the question to IDA yesterday at the underground link at Raffles place to Marina Square, Infocom have a road show on, fiber optic they did agree that it was limited to 15MB but explained that it is because other countries are not yet geared for the fiber connection. You cannot run Fiber over cable or ADSL, fiber is a digital single isn't it!sundaymorningstaple wrote:ksl,
Sorry, but the fibre IS capped at 15Mbps. Otherwise, wouldn't make much sense to roll out fibre with all the fanfare and then tell people that old cable is faster on overseas sites and can enjoy up to 25 Mbps. If it weren't capped then they would be advertising at least the same 25 Mbps don't you think?
If they give it to you all at once, they they don't leave any room for rolling out a faster, more expensive package option 6 months down the road.
And here I thought you were the marketing guru!
It makes a lot of sense to me, as they are giving you optic fiber free connection to encourage you to change now, even though it's only 15MB, starhub are offering 100MB, Singtel 50MB, but the speed will only show on downloads and uploads.wouldn't make much sense to roll out fibre with all the fanfare and then tell people that old cable is faster on overseas sites and can enjoy up to 25 Mbps
What is a digital single?ksl wrote:You cannot run Fiber over cable or ADSL, fiber is a digital single isn't it!
All the cable-TV/cable-broadband services in Singapore I am aware of are right now DIGITAL. Obviously the digital TV and the broadband (also digital) go through a single coax cable so they are also divided into streams. I think it is good enough to say that the FO has just much higher capacity and is less susceptible to external interference. How the streams are controlled and what are the protocols are secondary. FO also has its limits and one day will probably face the same oversell problems.ksl wrote: I think you will find out that 25MB on cable doesn't relate to a faster connection at all, has the oversell on cable reduces the service, where on digital each stream of light takes a standard amount of data and with lots of streams in the backbone cable, it's the optic to the house that controls your required data, which is set at the package you ordered, and cannot be interfered with like modulation on Cable and ADSL...the packets of data sent are totally differently controlled, so digital is much more efficient.
You are so wrong here. It is not for no reason. It is for an incompetence and poor service quality of Starhub and their subcontractors unless you are subscribed to Singtelintime0 wrote:How about the lameness of the DVR that comes with your cable plan. Seriously, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT when we are watching TV it just shuts off for no reason.
Did i say that about copper, copper is just a means of transportation of energy! I should have said analog may still be used depending on once device.x9200 wrote:I don't get why do you think copper = NO digital. Even for the links you posted there is no a single analogue word inside the documents so what is the source of this terminology? Can you tell me please how do you define digital?
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