Ken’s Sandbox

May 31, 2006

Bandon Fiber Project

Filed under: Stuff — ken.gregg @ 9:56 am

My mother is one of the first test homes for the new ComSpan fiber to the premises (FTTP) project in Bandon. Late last week the hooked up her TV and internet connections. Though I don’t have any experience with her old (Charter) TV quality she says the Fiber TV has a noticeably better picture quality.

I did stop by to make sure her new internet connection was properly firewalled and ran a couple of speed tests on her new 1 megabit connection (the slowest offered). Acording to www.dslreports.com speed test, she is getting 890 K both up and down. Including the TCP overhead the connection tests at the full advertised speed. And the browsing experience is incredible. Pages load instantly. My Verizon DSL just tested at 1234 K and is not anywhere near as responsive.

The bottom line is, if you are signed up for FTTP in Bandon, I’m sure you are going to love it.

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