Johnatan56
Honorary Master
You're lucky with your copper but the question is for how much longer as Telkom does not do maintenance.
Had an average ticket logged every year for the last 3 years I had copper, ADSL we got back when it first launched in CT to public I think, would have been 2003-2004.
Fiber compared, browsing is a little faster, sites feel "smoother" if local, that 7ms on 21ms is actually noticeable.
The extra upload is great as Google Drive backups plus image uploads of Google Photos.
The higher speeds, don't use the phone line so used that saving to up the line speed.
In regards to downtime on fiber, never had that. About 16 months on OpenServe 100/50, never had downtime. Now on Frogfoot 100/100 for half a month, was a smooth swap (install was like 25 minutes as used previous ducting) and haven't had any downtime yet.
Still not sure why you'd torture yourself with 2Mbps copper, that's at most one steam in low quality. If you spend 8 hours a day consuming content, wouldn't you like it in at least HD?
Another advantage of fiber is that you will get the speed you pay for, no limit of "oh no, you are 200m too far from the exchange for the full speed, we can only let it sync at 80% of what you are paying for and only half of what you want even though you're willing to pay more".
Again, though, if install costs etc make it more expensive and not worth it, don't swap.
Had an average ticket logged every year for the last 3 years I had copper, ADSL we got back when it first launched in CT to public I think, would have been 2003-2004.
Fiber compared, browsing is a little faster, sites feel "smoother" if local, that 7ms on 21ms is actually noticeable.
The extra upload is great as Google Drive backups plus image uploads of Google Photos.
The higher speeds, don't use the phone line so used that saving to up the line speed.
In regards to downtime on fiber, never had that. About 16 months on OpenServe 100/50, never had downtime. Now on Frogfoot 100/100 for half a month, was a smooth swap (install was like 25 minutes as used previous ducting) and haven't had any downtime yet.
Still not sure why you'd torture yourself with 2Mbps copper, that's at most one steam in low quality. If you spend 8 hours a day consuming content, wouldn't you like it in at least HD?
Another advantage of fiber is that you will get the speed you pay for, no limit of "oh no, you are 200m too far from the exchange for the full speed, we can only let it sync at 80% of what you are paying for and only half of what you want even though you're willing to pay more".
Again, though, if install costs etc make it more expensive and not worth it, don't swap.
