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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
they reserve part of your up/down for the tv though. from what i've read its not that great unless you have a direct line to your house, not just connected to a hub or whatever down the road. either way, its still the same big media bell company selling you tv through fiberoptic lines instead of satellite or cable lines.
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Yes that's how it is supposed to be. A genuine fibre optic cable into the house, then a switch to Ethernet.
Where I live now I pay 2 providers : 1 to Bell Satelight for TV, movies etc, and the other to videotron for Internet.
The new system will not only save me $60 a month, but I also got them to give me 4 months free + free movies + free streaming service (I forget the name but its supposed to compete with Netflix), and this new Live program restart feature, 6 TV support, and able to record 4 shows at the same time. Awesome.
For bandwidth, the sales rep said that its 250mb/s dedicated to Internet, but I am going to assume he is wrong anyway because if he's right, that would be too awesome. But even if he's wrong, I don't care because I'm not watching TV when I'm working, and I don't do alot of downloads anyway. It is UPLOADING That I will be most interested in using. Right now with videotron I am only getting 10mb/s upload and 62mb/s download.
Bidirectional 250mb/s will be kick ass.