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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There are a lot of very good reasons to switch back to copper for the last portion of a run. I highly doubt that consumer internet in Japan is terminating fiber directly into peoples' computers. Fiber is a lot more expensive both for the line, to run it, more prone to breakage, the network cards are more expensive, etc. It's really not needed for most purposes.

Also no one uses cat3 for data and it can't be run for 'hundreds of feet'. And LC fiber IS used in the US - that's a kind of connector not the kind of fiber.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have fiber to home in Canada

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Have fiber to home here in Arkansas in the US

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's not terminated in your computer though for all the reasons I said.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Typing from my Tokyo fiber-to-the-home connection now. They ran it off the pole, installed a little thing in my house, ran the fiber to the modem they make me rent, and it works like a charm.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's not terminated in your computer though for all the reasons I said.