We're in for an information revolution.Engineers in Japan just shattered the world record for the fastest internet speed, achieving a data transmission rate of 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s), according to a paper presented at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications in June. From...
Awesome potential. Meanwhile, in the US, people struggle to get broadband speeds at home..
this happens because everyone refuses to hire union techs or permanent techs who could unionize, and they just use contractors instead
contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology. where I work we have techs who have worked on coax for five years thrust into fiber drops where they can’t read the maps and records are just plain incorrect
contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology
absolutely. This is the third time my fiber line has been cut by contractors doing work inside the easement lmao. I knew it was going to happen as soon as I heard them pull up, as they're laying out Google's line through the entire neighborhood/surrounding area and therefore needed six trucks to do so. I should have walked out and made sure they were aware that ATT had laid their line literally a month ago in the same spot that Google had marked, but I figured they would at least see that ATT's fiber hookup terminal/main/whatever the fuck they call it clearly is in use and realize there must be a line extending to some house...
The icing on the cake is that they left the line out & exposed; like they buried part of it, 4pm and a bit of rain came around and thus they have left it in a pile in my drainage ditch. I should just fucking pull that shit under my crawlspace and hook it up to ATT's shit.
RIP my gigabit speeds, somehow ATT is giving me 20mbps via my usb hotspot :corporate-art:
The maps are probably made by novices from another state working under contract using as builts designed by other novices and sending the plans to 16 year olds in trucks getting $12/hr to dig the ditch.
this happens because everyone refuses to hire union techs or permanent techs who could unionize, and they just use contractors instead
contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology. where I work we have techs who have worked on coax for five years thrust into fiber drops where they can’t read the maps and records are just plain incorrect
absolutely. This is the third time my fiber line has been cut by contractors doing work inside the easement lmao. I knew it was going to happen as soon as I heard them pull up, as they're laying out Google's line through the entire neighborhood/surrounding area and therefore needed six trucks to do so. I should have walked out and made sure they were aware that ATT had laid their line literally a month ago in the same spot that Google had marked, but I figured they would at least see that ATT's fiber hookup terminal/main/whatever the fuck they call it clearly is in use and realize there must be a line extending to some house...
The icing on the cake is that they left the line out & exposed; like they buried part of it, 4pm and a bit of rain came around and thus they have left it in a pile in my drainage ditch. I should just fucking pull that shit under my crawlspace and hook it up to ATT's shit.
RIP my gigabit speeds, somehow ATT is giving me 20mbps via my usb hotspot :corporate-art:
The maps are probably made by novices from another state working under contract using as builts designed by other novices and sending the plans to 16 year olds in trucks getting $12/hr to dig the ditch.