FiberToTinus’Home (FTTH)

besides ‘a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn’ which sounds quite nice; it also defines fiber as: ‘Optical fiber is made of flexible glass and can support very high data transfer rates. An individual glass fiber, roughly the thickness of a human hair, is capable of carrying a distinct signal transmitted in the form of pulses of light’

Which sounds even nicer…. Guess what……..No, I haven’t taken up spinning… I finally ordered my FTTH or Fiber To Tinus’ Home as I define it… and got it delivered…Whats in the package; a 50 Mbit symmetrical internet connection using the XMSnet network… (100 Mbit speeds also available..)

The CO (which is quite near) was already hooked up to the backbone; and after my order a fiber was blown to my appartment and welded together….. resulting in a plug neatly fixed in the box, a PacketFront DRG500:

The plug with the fiber inside

With all that plugged, fixed & stuffed; its time for some cable…. unfortunately; when designing my appartment long ago; people where not aware of the concept of placing anything else in the closet next to the front door but an electricity meter……

Plug it in.... but where

Nice there’s 220 Volt coming into the house there; but no socket….. so… waiting for the contractors to fix that one…. might take two weeks i hear……

pic with phone of wires....

Got rid of the (straight) UTP cable to the router by leading it past the wall; but am stuck with the 220 cable for a while I guess……But where does that wire lead to ?

: 300 mbps wireless?!?

A new broadband (300Mbits/s so they claim) router……. to serve my laptop and media center PC. My other PC is still hooked up to my 3Mbit DSL line (InternetPlusBellen) which also has two separate phonenumbers attached…. a legacy from the ISDN times…..

That leaves me with a (private) dual homing, dual access situation ! (50Mbit/50Mbit over fiber as primary connection, 3Mbit/0,5Mbit as backup….Soon, more about my newly found pleasures….

‘Fiber’ Tinus

(ps: at my current assignment I’m also productmanager for ‘location services’ = connecting all offices… experiences at home can only lead to more insight in how to gain customer satisfaction….

so…. deliver me the 1 Gbit

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