CABLE CO’s & COPPER TROUBLES

Bobby Vassallo
2 min readSep 18, 2024

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When choosing your internet service provider, no matter their promises and upgrades, your copper carrier is at the end of its rope on ability to deliver relevant internet. Losing close to 10% of their customers a year, these behemoth, dominant, legacy carriers are grasping at straws. The advent of new 4K TV’s and now 8K’s coupled with the impact of AI-driven apps and programs, has internet provider network usage skyrocketing. These copper cable or DSL networks no longer sustain.

Should your home network yield 100 megabits (download) by 20 (upload) on a good evening (when your neighbors are all home and streaming), your (say) two TV’s are pulling around 15 megabits. Should those be 4K TV’s, those are pulling 50 megabits (of your 100). Two 8K’s have you up to 200 megabits (of your 100). While your expensive TV is working, it will not yield 8K or even close. Pray the kids aren’t on their gaming platforms in another part of the house.

Modern fiber networks easily handle the new upside in internet usage, better maintain network consistency, latency/quality, and don’t bog down when neighbors are home. Newer/current fiber, XGS-PON networks scale to 10 gigabit, should you be an extreme power user. Delivery of a gigabit (1000x1000) to 2.5 to 10 gigabit is already built in, in most cases. Modern carriers can increase your capacity at a mouse’s click.

Your old cable provider probably can’t deliver a single gigabit, although the provider may promise it. It’s not their fault. Copper is doing all copper can. And, prices are falling; a race to the bottom for these copper carrier networks. They can no longer compete with current technology, all glass, fiber networks.

10 Gigabit Home Internet

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Bobby Vassallo

Internet service provider, fiber builder and city wireless builder with experience in hotel and convention WiFi. Dallas born, lived in NY, LA and San Diego.