Ilya Chernykh wrote:
What is definite is that the cable which connects my building has capacity 1 Gbit/s, optical or not. The higher-level cable is almost certainly optic because it should have higher capacity.
Your building is almost certainly also connected with fibre, 1GigE copper ethernet only goes so far.
This is completely standard not only for this city but for this country and for neighboring countries also.
Also for single-family houses or mostly in areas with higher concentrations?
For areas with higher concentrations.
Okay, so same as here. The fibre infrastructure is expensive, needs lots of customers for it pay off.
I'm surprised it was worth the extra investment in the infrastructure, but I guess xDSL wasn't suitable for some reason.
There are providers who advertise xDSL, for example, a telephone company, but they are competitive only in buildings which are not connected to the Ethernet (the number of them decreases with the majority now have multiple Ethernet providers). Ethernet is a standard here at least from mid-90s, the only major change for a end-user being change of the end-user connection capacity from 10 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s which was mostly completed by the end of 1990s.
I'm really surprised that it was worth rewiring entire apartment buildings with Cat5 cable, when VoIP didn't exist. I mean, in the mid-90s the internet had barely been invented, people were happy dialling into Compuserve at 56K (or 64K in ISDN countries). It's totally surreal to hear you explain about 10Mbps speeds to an internet that barely existed (to Joe Bloggs).
The tariffs changed greatly in the last 3 years and now one can have a 50 times faster connection (of more traffic if the tariff is traffic-based with unlimited speed) for the same money than 3 years ago.
Here they haven't changed a lot - one significant change was in 2008, when the Swiss government made Swisscom provide a certain minimum of xDSL to every Swiss household that wants it. (Grundversorgungspflicht). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org