Glass fiber days are here! (or rather will be soon )

[ProPain]

So a few months ago the local glass fiber provider finally blew a fiber in the empty tube that had been sitting in my home for 2 years.

Ofc a fiber dangling from a tube still isn't very usefull but in July, just before my holiday, they finally installed some sort of modem box that has UTP sockets.

After my holiday I kept forgetting to tell the provider to switch it on, but I finally got to that and.... drumroll.....tomorrow my 50Mbit up/down should be working :)

Past performance of the ISP leads me to believe tomorrow more likely will be next fiday, but still fast internet will be here soon.

[ProPain]

Amazing stuff. They managed to get the whole thing working today, as promised.

Good stuff :)

[Shabbaman]

MOAR SPAM!!!

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[Matrix]

Funny timing for such a message, ProPain. I'm working for KPN on the glass fiber department since yesterday. ;)

[ProPain]

Funny timing for such a message, ProPain. I'm working for KPN on the glass fiber department since yesterday. ;)

Although having worked for KPN myself for quite a few years, my fiber is from another provider. And coming to think of it, I don't know anybody (non-business) who has a KPN fiber to the home.


The fiber is really good though, nice and fast.

[Furiey]

They installed fibre to my area/house about 15 years ago so have always enjoyed pretty good speeds. I'm not prepared to pay for that sort of speed though!

[ProPain]

Interestingly the fiber is cheaper than my ADSL + phone now. The only doubt I had was that the provider is a rather small company. But I decided to go ahead anyway, if service is bad I can always go back to my old setup