Fiber Optic Internet


Ziply Fiber is a new internet provider that is coming to our area. I was wondering if any of you out there have had experience with their service or have used fiber optic internet with your systems?

I am putting together an all-digital front end and am currently with Comcast. At present, I have speeds of 100 Mbps upload and 5 Mbps download at $58 a month and I was going to optically isolate the signal from my router to my streamer with a set of fiber media converters (FMC), but I’m thinking that this kind of internet service would eliminate the need for the FMC’s? Sort of galvanic isolation all on its own.

Here is a link to their offerings. Which of their plans/speed do you think would be best if you think optical internet is a good option for streaming music? Thanks.

https://ziplyfiber.com/internet

 

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Showing 1 response by mlsstl

T think you may have your 100 MB / 5 MB figures backwards.  Downloading (i.e., receiving data) almost always has the higher speed compared to uploading (your PC sending outbound data).  That was done to make people running web site servers pay for a business internet plan instead of the cheaper ones for home users. 

For some ISPs, that's gone by the wayside. My ATT fiber plan gives me 1 GB up and down with no data caps.  My setup is as @yage describes above which converts the optical signal into ethernet which then goes to my ATT router. I've got Qobuz and it all works great with the hi-rez material without any special equipment.