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\"fiber<\/a><\/p>\n

I now have fiber to the home at my house. It’s wonderful, so far. You should check this out at your end. <\/p>\n

Well, it took some time but I think it was worth the wait. Last June, I wrote about the work crews installing fiber in my neighborhood<\/a>. My local telco Telus made a big investment in Calgary.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it took five months to get the “drop” to my house. But, on December 1st, my new fiber hub was up and running in the basement, as shown above<\/p>\n

Now, I have Gigabit internet at home, symmetrical no less. Plus, the new WIFI 6<\/a> in the home is faster and more reliable. My fiber to the home<\/a> is living up to expectations. On the television front, my Shaw cable problems with latency and frozen pictures are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

My installation leveraged my old 75 ohm cable where needed using MoCA<\/a>. Here is the setup. Fiber arrives in the basement. MoCA provides a fast connection to the PVR box, and a WIFI gateway on the main floor. My home Ethernet network plugs into the basement hub. Everything works at light speed, so to say.<\/p>\n

I am still getting used to the idea my home is tethered to the world with light rather than copper.<\/p>\n

Fiber to the Home – RFI Questions<\/h2>\n

So far, my new setup seems to be RFI free, both in terms of ingress and egress. Gone are the DSL artifacts I experienced on HF when I had Telus some years ago. Cable was fine for RFI as DOCSIS runs in UHF.<\/p>\n

Will I have RFI problems with MoCA? Probably not, as MoCA runs on UHF as well. Time will tell. Now, if I could only encourage my neighbor to replace his slow VHDSL with fiber.<\/p>\n

My service agreement with Telus is for two years. I can only hope long term performance is as good as the first month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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