My old service is nominally 7 Mb/sec down, 1 Mb/sec up. At the dsl provisioning level, the upstream is set for 896 Kb/sec. This download figure is surprisingly low, but it’s lasted for several days (when I’m reasonably certain there is no other use in the house).
This is nominally 1000Mb/sec both up and down.
Oh, and note that ping time, too!
So I’m going to call this a huge win! Thank you USI!
I found the splicing trailer 3 blocks up Blaisdell, which seems hopeful.
Quite a fancy setup. That’s a heavily-muffled generator on the hitch there.
The splicing takes place inside, where they have nice workspace, good light, holding jigs, and so forth. How do I know that? Travis Carter sent me some more photos earlier this morning:
(Back to my photos again).
The “loose ends” of conduit on the non-trunk (east) side of the Blaisdell Ave. are still there. I’ll be kind of surprised if the system goes active with those sticking up, though, so perhaps something happens to them this afternoon.
We’ve all noticed we live in a small world, right? Or at least one that’s folded really funny?
Old acquaintance stopped by to check on the fiber trunk installation out front, and sent me some pictures and a progress report. He used to run The Warehouse BBS, Fidonet 282/115, and was a co-founder of USI (in fact he says it was spawned from the BBS).  (Those of you who ever heard of Fidonet may well remember that I ran The Terraboard 282/341 for quite a while.) So, thank you Travis Carter!
And he got pictures of things I probably wouldn’t, too.
I’ve been giving most of the details over on Facebook, but I thought I should nail down this big step in getting our gigabit fiber Internet service. The crew from USI came and brought the fiber from the junction box on the side of the house through to the ethernet switch they installed on the wiring panel.
So far as I know, actual Internet through this is still scheduled for sometime in the first two weeks of June.
Also, note the support for a serial “console port”!
Just before Minicon we learned that USI Internet is bringing their fiber trunk up our street. And of course immediately signed up for 1Gb (symmetric!) service.
 
Today, they came and put the conduit from the boulevard over to where the junction box on the outside of the house is. Progress! (Meanwhile I’m working on upgrading the internal network to be able to deal with this kind of external bandwidth.)