Incredible! Today I realized that it’s the 10th anniversary of fiber connectivity at our home in Paris! 10 YEARS! Here’s my original post from November 2024. I am a bit speechless. These days, I could even upgrade to a 10 Gbit/s connection. Overall, I’d say it’s a success story, with a few bumps and bruises … Continue reading 10 Years of Fiber in Paris
In part 3 of this series, I’ve found the reason of why that FTTH line to Paris is so slow to download data from most destinations: Excessive packet loss. While I still haven’t found the reasons for the packet loss, I could at least answer why some (but very few) servers do not have a … Continue reading Fiber in Paris – Part 4 – Packet Loss and BBR to the Rescue
After my initial delight of getting FTTH connectivity restored in Paris, I quickly realized that something is not quite in order. While getting well over 800 Mbps to some servers in the downlink, I got a meager 20 – 100 Mbps to others, even though they can deliver data much more quickly when I probe … Continue reading Fiber in Paris – Part 3 – Packet Loss
Back in 2014 when we first got our FTTH connection in Paris, I posted a number of equipment pictures. The equipment has worked well over the years and probably would have continued to do if we hadn’t been forced to change providers from SFR to Free to restore service. This meant that we also got … Continue reading Fiber in Paris – Part 2 – 2022 Equipment
Back in 2014, and yes, that’s 8 years ago, I got a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) line installed in Paris. Apart from very few outages that lasted a few minutes to a few hours, the link ran pretty much flawlessly and I had a lot of fun with it. That was, until mid-December 2021, … Continue reading Fiber in Paris – Part 1 – A Long Odyssey to New Light
Since I know how a gigabit GPON fiber link feels and performs and that it's deployed significantly in some countries I can't but wonder when telecom operators in other countries stop praising DSL vectoring with 100 Mbit/s downlink and a few Mbit/s in the uplink as the future technology and become serious about fixed line … Continue reading My Gigabit/s Fiber in Paris Is Already Outdated – Say Hello to 10 and 40 Gbit/s PON
Time flies and I can hardly believe that I’ve had a fiber connection at my Paris flat for 4 years now and that fiber is still almost nowhere to be seen in Germany. O.k. I do have vectored VDSL and 100 Mbit/s down, 40 Mbit/s up is not so bad. But fiber is playing in … Continue reading Fiber Speeds in Paris – 4 Years Later
Speaking of the 1 ms 5G latency myth in my previous post on the topic let's have a look at what round trip times are to servers on the Internet today over different access networks – with surprising results! (V)DSL: When I ping a sever pretty close to my location and within the network of … Continue reading Latency Comparison – DSL, UMTS, LTE and Fiber
A few weeks ago I've reported about my stellar speed experience with fiber connectivity in Paris with downlink and uplink speeds of 264 Mbit/s and 48 Mbit/s respectively. Today, I've got a follow up with a couple of pictures and technical background information. Fiber and Copper in the Apartment Let's start at the end of … Continue reading Fiber Connectivity in Paris – Some Images
When I go on business trips or vacation, I usually do that in the mindset that Internet connectivity will not be as good as at home and that I will be restricted in some way. While in Europe, LTE coverage is usually good wherever I go and speeds are usually sufficient in the double digit … Continue reading Malaga on Fiber