Excitel Broadband is charging for replacement of ethernet cable damaged outside user's premises

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so the guy that came to my place told me that officially the rate is rs. 10 per meter but he can get it done without informing the backend people. i paid 400 bucks for the reinstall. i got the wire installed through the roof on the second floor instead of first to increase the height of the wire crossing the road even more. hard to say if the total wire used was more than 40 meters but the guy did a pretty fast job of getting me back online.

cool thing is that the guy told me that if i wanted, he can get me connected through fiber in the coming weeks. it seems that they are going to upgrade the local network and offer ftth to people interested. i would need to pay for optical fiber and the box (whatever it is called) but he said that it should improve connection stability and probably even speeds during rush hours.

told him to contact me when this option is available in my part of the sector.
 
also worth mentioning here is that this time around they used different ethernet cable. i dont remember the term he used. but i am guessing this one is capable of gigabit?
 
The different Eth specs are as follows:

Cat 5 - max 100Mbps
Cat 5E - max 1Gbps
Cat 6 - max 10Gbps
 
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Ok, yes, in that case the first cable with 4 wires would be capable of max 100Mbps. You ideally need 8 wires for 1Gbps, which is what the second one is.
 
righto. i would probably switch to ftth when they launch it in coming weeks and dump abs.
 
Sushubh said:
so the guy that came to my place told me that officially the rate is rs. 10 per meter but he can get it done without informing the backend people. i paid 400 bucks for the reinstall. i got the wire installed through the roof on the second floor instead of first to increase the height of the wire crossing the road even more. hard to say if the total wire used was more than 40 meters but the guy did a pretty fast job of getting me back online.

cool thing is that the guy told me that if i wanted, he can get me connected through fiber in the coming weeks. it seems that they are going to upgrade the local network and offer ftth to people interested. i would need to pay for optical fiber and the box (whatever it is called) but he said that it should improve connection stability and probably even speeds during rush hours.

told him to contact me when this option is available in my part of the sector.
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I dont get this, why do you have to pay for something that isnt your fault? does this mean rival LCO can keep on cutting wires every fortnight and you have to pay them everytime for new cable?
 
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