My housing estate in Johor has been using an underground fiber optic system since more than ten years ago. The short connection from a main underground cable behind the house to the phone socket is probably using copper. There is no wire exposed. All wires are either underground or in the wall. A few years ago, my ADSL modem and a powerline Ethernet adaptor connected to it were still burnt, probably due to lightning, as I cannot find another reason for the connector to turn black.

This post has been edited by hwt: Mar 12 2010, 02:23 PM

5 MBps = (5 x 8) Mbps = 40 Mbps

Does a 10 Mbps subscription give 40 Mbps of download speed?????

We do not use the full capacity of our links, do we? I have a 512 Kbps subscription with TM, which gives 400 Kbps to 520 Kbps of downlink speed quite consistently. My usage is at most a few hundred MB a month, which is in average (500 MB x 8 b/B) / (30 days x 24 hours/day x 3600 seconds/hour) = 0.00154 Mbps. Of course, my active time may be only 30 minutes a day, resulting in a more realistic 0.074 Mbps of average bandwidth consumption.

This post has been edited by hwt: Mar 16 2010, 12:05 PM