On Sunday 12 September 2010 20:55:17 Per Jessen wrote:
It is a curious setup what you describe. So the building, perhaps the city, is a local network to you, with a gateway to internet somewhere?
In another message, I provided a link to just such a setup in Wellington> NZ. There, Ethernet is a utility, which you can use to connect to an ISP of your choice.
I would say that my network is entirely controlled by one provider, but I can insert my Ethernet cable into a hub any of at least 3 providers who have a hub in my house.
This sounds a lot like a cable-TV network, except it's not for TV. I guess the uplink is fibre?
Completely irrelevant. It may be optic fiber or copper UTP depending on distance to a higher-level hub. 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.
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.
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. And of course, the moment when his building was connected after all. I recall how in the end of 1990s I every day opened a site of a district network to see the map: which new buildings they connected? The network though, failed to cross a wide street separating the connected part of the district from non-connected. Another network was in a quarter from me in the opposite direction. In the end my building was connected to a third network and it seems I learned about it much later than it actually happened :-) After a while it was bought by a city-wide provider. 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. But if to compare with onthe cities and countries one can find that we now have high prices: in Ukraine one can have 40 times cheaper Internet if to count $/(Mbit/s), also by Ethernet of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org