Minneapolis Fiber to the home

[MN]

I am signed up to get fiber to my home on Mpls. Heck of a deal Has anyone done this? I am wondering how they get from my boulevard to inside my house.

Thanks- MN

[Lowblazah]

They will trench fiber to your house then install an interface device inside.

watch the video.

http://fiber.usinternet.com/

[Chef]

Who is the "They" bringing the fiber into your home? A carrier like CenturyLink? Will you pay yearly maintenance on it? How much bandwidth will you get? Is it triple play Voice/Video/Internet?

Will the drop in your home be an Ethernet port? Hw many IP's will you get?

[MN]

They are US Internet. I can get any of the following - I am getting the 30 for $30. Sure beats the 5Mbps that I get now with DSL for the same price. (not that I get 5Mbps)

15 Mbps Up/Down

30 Mbps Up/Down

50 Mbps Up/Down

100 Mbps Up/Down

1 Gbps Up/Down

They run it into my house for $100- connect to their box and I connect it to my stuff via an ethernet cable. I have not seen any trenching through yards - wondering if they had some other magic up their sleeves.

[upnorth]

They can run it over land like power lines. There is also some sort of water tunneling of some nature where they use a pipe and high pressure water to make the tunnel. Not seen something like that used in town tho.

[Whoaru99]

Are there any data caps on those plans?

[MN]

No caps, no contract, no tax or fees

[masoct3]

I am so jeolous. I live in St. Louis Park.

[Shack]

Man, could I use 1 Gbps Up/Down.

[PierBridge]

So you are over on the west side of town? I don't think it's available in my area yet. While I'm fairly satisfied with the USI Wireless at this point the Video hogs are wreaking havoc on the system and this fiber direction sounds like a good Idea.

[Whoaru99]

Streaming video is only going to grow...

I think for Netflix streams it runs ~0.5Mbps - 4Mbps depending on what quality you want/can pull down. I pull the HD streams when possible and these run near 4Mbps.

[Scott K]

Ha, ya. I have one teenager playing video games on line, another one watching Netflix, and a server running, and a couple computers. I have cable internet, and I can tell in the evenings that it slows a quite a bit.

My area is also getting fiber, but is more then likely going to be next summer before I get it.

[Whoaru99]

I have a 30Mbps connection, actually was thinking of downgrading the speed but looks like 30Mbps is the lowest offered here now. 100Mbps is available and now they're talking a 300Mbps plan.

[upnorth]

cripes we have a 5 mb connection at work and 450 PCs on the network, but I do limit who can get to streaming media.