[ale] From DSL to Fiber

[Joshua Kite]

BellSouth has experimented with fiber all the way to the house, but only in
a few areas.  For the most part you're right, though, that he's more likely
to have FITL or IFITL which is fiber to the curb.

There is a difference between FITL and IFITL.  It's been at least a year
since I've dealt with either, but I believe IFITL includes video and also
can provide very high data speeds (far exceeding 1.5mbps).  IIRC, IFITL
makes use of an additional part of the spectrum on the fiber which allows
for the higher speeds, but it's far more expensive and BellSouth decided to
only implement it where it was able to obtain cable TV franchises.  Data
over IFITL is not ADSL, but I cannot remember excactly what technology is
used.

FITL looks the same from the outside, in that it is still fiber to the curb,
but once inside the pedestal the electronics are different.  In the early
days of FITL and broadband there was a real problem with the ADSL cards
burning up.  That problem has been solved, of course, but I think those
areas still lag in terms of speed, despite having fiber within 500 feet of
the house.  I believe FITL is actually ADSL.

Then there are those of us who live in the areas where BellSouth actually
experimented with coax.  It's strange to me to look up at my house and see
two coax cables running to it.  I don't think they did much experimenting
with broadband over coax, though.

Of course, I'm now using Comcast and Vonage now, so none of it matters to me
anymore!

On 8/23/06, Ryan Fish < FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> I doubt he truly has fiber all the way to the house.  More likely there is
>
> fiber to an underground ped and 5-pair copper coming out of an above
> ground
> ped to the house box.  This is how it is done in my neighborhood anyway.
>
> I ran my own Cat5e from the house box to the closet where my router lives.
>
> The tech just connected everything at both ends and all was well.
>
> And, yes, you are stuck at 1.5MB when using IFITL and there is no time
> frame
> for an upgrade (I've asked SEVERAL times).  If it wasn't such a pain in
> the
> butt I'd have switched to cable for 6MB long ago.  I do love the fact
> there
> is no modem to deal with when using IFITL though...
>
> -Ryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James
> P.
> Kinney III
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:11 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] From DSL to Fiber
>
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 22:04 -0400, runman wrote:
> > I am moving and have fiber strung to my new house.
> <envy><envy><envy>
>
> >   I am not going to use
> > BellSouth as my ISP provider but am either going to stay with
> Speedfactory
> > (instant contract renewal - ick !) or go with someone else (Speakeasy
> and
> > Atlantic Nexus are the front-runners here).  I have been told that BS
> has
> > limited my download speed to 1.5 and that I will need to punch another
> hole
> > in my house and run another pair of wires to a RJ45 jack (getting rid of
> > PPPOE is the only bright side to this ordeal).
> >
> > Is this correct ?  While not crazy about this I am less crazy about
> paying
> > Speedfactory's service tech to do it for a small fortune.  While I know
> how
> > to put an RJ45 jack on Ethernet cable I am not too sure about fiber.
>
> The fiber will terminated with a converter in a box. It will be copper
> inside the house. Run your own wire3 from where you want the jack back
> to the box and have the DSL tech connect it to the converter.
> >
> > And I am guessing my phones are all ok as they are ?
> >
> > As one can tell, I am totally ignorant of fiber and it's ramifications
> with
> > regards to home networks.  However I am certain there are many on this
> list
> > who are networking guru's with regards to fiber to the home.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Greg
> >
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