Fiber Internet Upgrade and Legacy Networking Technology
A host describes upgrading to a 5-gigabit symmetrical fiber connection, noting significant improvements in audio quality and latency for the podcast recording. The conversation transitions into a retrospective on networking history, including 56k modems, ISDN, and the technical limitations of T1 lines. An anecdote is shared regarding Pacific Telephone technicians and the persistent issue of squirrels chewing through capsicum-laced wire coatings.
fiber internet· clean feed· latency· t1 line· pointcast· networking· beelink
00:00 Pierre, expand the salon. We're coming! Do you qualify though? That's the question. Do you qualify, do you qualify?
00:39 I don't know. What was the qualification for? Anything, they want my zip code! You haven't gone full over-the-air yet you'll see what i'm talking about Well no I have not however as of today I am full on fiber Oh you're on it now Yes in fact that was even able to up the quality of our connection on clean feed Really? Yes, 5 gigabits per second. Really?! Yes! Five gigabits per second up and down I am so jacked about this
01:16 I've been waiting. All my life, I wanted... It sounds the same as your little wireless. Shut up! Well of course it's not just this. It's the latency which is so great. We have like a five millisecond ping or something that's incredibly fast And that's what enables me to up the quality. You sound better, believe me it's subtle but you sound better because I can put clean feet instead of speech enhance or optimize. Yes cause I'm older! Okay there is that... But there is one other thing I noticed and I always have to remind myself when this happens from the days when I went from a 56 no actually yeah I think we went from
02:10 44 what was the 56k modem right that's we had was that the highest you could have a 56 K modem I don't know if he got to 50 6k on a modem. I thought it was 19 2 or no No, but well I remember going 256 k frame relay which was remarkably better than any dial-up because you know of course It was all this error correction and stuff that really guides that 56 K throughput And from there, you know I went to ISDN which arguably gave you 128 kilobits and then it...I remember at the office the big T1 line. One gigabit per second! Whoo! The whole office was on it. Remember those days? I don't think it was that fast
02:57 The T1 line? Well, the one line was not 1 gigabit per second. That's the max that a T1... I'm not sure of that. A T1 is really the card it's not even the line its the card can handle one megabit per second Not gigabit! Megabit John! Not Gigabit! Megabit! Oh you said GigaBIT No, well I meant to say if I did I apologize One mega bit per second Yeah And then we had point cast Remember Pointcast and everyone's point cast would update at the same time? Yeah, more memorable was the guy was offered a buyout for like 100 million bucks or something. And he didn't take it? No of course not! The road is littered with these people. The whole operation... Live Journal I think had the same thing So what on Vermont... oh yes go ahead
03:51 I was at, so I caught a PG or Pacific Telephone guy at open up one of those big boxes on the street and he's looking at it and if he's wiring something up. And I asked him about T1 line. He says oh yeah the T1 lines. So he shows all these wires that go from point to point all over this mess of wires And he says, we always use... He's got a thicker wire for the T1 line. Oh really? We always use this thick wire for the T1 line. That's funny. He's the same guy who told me about the squirrels. Ah! Yes, the squirrel thing is real
04:33 Well, yeah. The story he told me which is another one of my many stories He says the squirrels that one of the things they were their pain in the ass because they eat through the wire They like to rubber outer coating so they went through the process of developing and it this outer coat this plastic coating that was just laced with capsicum the hot chili pepper stuff. Oh, they must love that! He says it worked for about a month until they got a taste for it That's like the stuff we spray up for the deers The deer don't eat our trees and they're like hmm you know what I do kind of like this peppery stuff It is pretty good Anyway what I always remind myself Is that even with the well subtle upgrades And of course
05:20 my, like the network card in or the Wi-Fi card in the Beelink that I have. It's 300 megabits so you know I had to plug it into see five gigabit per second but even at a consistent three hundred up and down with that very short ping time you get more done. You just...it's seconds per time you hit a webpage sometimes So your winning minutes an hour! You get more done I always forget about that. It's like, oh wow! Well, I can tell you're jacked up about this. I am jacked up about it. I mean until the lightning bolt hits the pole... I still have a backup. But I'm cutting the cord. Spectrum is out of here at the end of this month. Spectrum is out. Over expensive crap with stuff I don't watch and OTA is in and I'm sighted
