<br><b><i>Jarod Wilson <lists@wilsonet.com></i></b> wrote:<br>>I had it in my head that just about all of Singapore was wired with <br>>fibre optics, which ought to make for a pretty snappy download from a <br>>mirror within Singapore.<br>><br>>/me pets his own fibre pipe, which can routinely suck down 20Mbps <br>>now. :)<br>><br>>-- <br>>Jarod Wilson<br>>jarod@wilsonet.com<br>><br><br>Well, true to a certain extent. It's F/O to the local switches / telco exchange. From there, it's copper (cable or adsl) to the residential apartments.<br><br>There are trials going on at a couple of private condominiums whereby residents can get up to 100mbps download speed. Not sure if it's fibre or copper based.<br><br>And of course, the only local cable operator, StarHub, is also offering DOCSIS 3.0 cable plans offering subscribers speed up to 100mbps downstream.<br><br>Then, there is the Wireless@SG, a government
endoursed wireless access available for free (until 2009) in places with high human traffic such as shopping malls.<br><br>All these are part of the Singapore government's IT masterplan. See:<br>http://www.in2015.sg/<br><br>cheers<br><p> 
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