Gamers in Paris enjoy 2.5Gb/s Internet.

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Originally Posted by LowRun

2.5 Gb is approximately 300 MB.

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and 25 Mb is approximately 2.5 MB. How come 100 X 25 for that price and services, For me that is untrue. If the ratio is 150/1 or 250/1 maybe this could be possible. I think that speed is for all the residents.

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Originally Posted by Getttosmurf

in theory 312.5Mb/s

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The theory is right :) but the article should be specific and tell details. It is impossible that speed for that price. The speed does not rise more than 5 times year. Last year here in britain we had a plan that gets 4 mb per 35£ the same company has adopted 10 Mb per the same 35£, so we must say not even 2 times faster than previous year. This year a company has a plan of 25 Mb but in reality it gets around 15 Mb for mere 24£, so we must say it increased 5 times the speed, because they adopted the ADSL +2. Now this untrue article tells something clearly so unspecific.

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Originally Posted by Metroid

and 25 Mb is approximately 2.5 MB. How come 100 X 25 for that price and services, For me that is untrue. If the ratio is 150/1 or 250/1 maybe this could be possible. I think that speed is for all the residents.




The theory is right :) but the article should be specific and tell details. It is impossible that speed for that price. The speed does not rise more than 5 times year. Last year here in britain we had a plan that gets 4 mb per 35£ the same company has adopted 10 Mb per the same 35£, so we must say not even 2 times faster than previous year. This year a company has a plan of 25 Mb but in reality it gets around 15 Mb for mere 24£, so we must say it increased 5 times the speed, because they adopted the ADSL +2. Now this untrue article tells something clearly so unspecific.

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Those are theoretical speeds, it should be more like 100 MB up and down actualy. And yes it costs 70€ a month. Fortunately this market is not driven by your simplistic formula or whats going on in the UK (wich is laying far behind for that matter), it's about technology and costs. Fiber is the tech and due to their past monopoly they have the pipes already which brings costs down to an acceptable level.

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Originally Posted by LowRun

Those are theoretical speeds, it should be more like 100 MB up and down actualy. And yes it costs 70€ a month. Fortunately this market is not driven by your simplistic formula or whats going on in the UK (wich is laying far behind for that matter), it's about technology and costs. Fiber is the tech and due to their past monopoly they have the pipes already which brings costs down to an acceptable level.

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That was well explained. I have to see with my own eyes before tell my conclusions.

Thanks. :)


I found my answear: GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.2 Gb/s upstream, shared among 32 endpoints (currently; the technology is supposed to evolve to support 64 endpoints). In other words, each endpoint gets around 80 Mb/s downstream and around 40 Mb/s upstream. 2.5 Gb/s is the downstream system capacity between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal, not the service offered to an individual customer. In addition, the back end of the optical line terminal is typically a single GbE port into the carrier's backbone, so there's a contention factor which limits the total bandwidth available to the subscribers served by the OLT to less than 1 Gb/s.

That is it :)

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Originally Posted by Metroid

That was well explained. I have to see with my own eyes before tell my conclusions.

Thanks. :)


I found my answear: GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.2 Gb/s upstream, shared among 32 endpoints (currently; the technology is supposed to evolve to support 64 endpoints). In other words, each endpoint gets around 80 Mb/s downstream and around 40 Mb/s upstream. 2.5 Gb/s is the downstream system capacity between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal, not the service offered to an individual customer. In addition, the back end of the optical line terminal is typically a single GbE port into the carrier's backbone, so there's a contention factor which limits the total bandwidth available to the subscribers served by the OLT to less than 1 Gb/s.

That is it :)

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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
Based on the info you provided, i guess their offer should be based on a 32 endpoints (or a little less if it's technicaly feasible and they wan't to stick to 100 MB down/up).
They estimated it would cost 10 billions € to cover 40% of the population and 30 billions more for the rest. You get 2 months for free if you subscribe.

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

why exactly are you mad about 256Mbit:p:

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Ooops, typo