[cwlaualex]

Originally Posted by MrMoo

PCCW have started rolling out passive fibre to compete with HKBN's BB100, BB200, and BB1000 services. Most likely crap internationally.

It's not competing with HKBN when you look at its price.

[MrMoo]

Originally Posted by cwlaualex

It's not competing with HKBN when you look at its price.

They're not really trying are they?

HKBN, 100mb = $378, 1000mb = $1680
PCCW, 100mb = $588, 1000mb = $2,188

According to these sites:

http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/defa...rticleID=28133
http://www.hkbn.com.hk/bb1000/offer_ftth_bb1000.html

[dizzykaz]

i think pccw is trying...however not trying hard enough though. its price on the fibre thingy is way too expensive. Will there ever be any cus who is willin to pay 2188 for 1000mb...thats crazy, innit?

[PDLM]

What sort of speeds do you think you will actually achieve? Are you really just moving files around within Hong Kong? Even then, the total bandwidth connected by each of PCCW and HKBN at the HK Internet Exchange is "only" 30GBs. So only 30 1000MB customers could possibly be getting full speed connectivity over those links simultaneously even if no-one else in the whole of Hong Kong was trying to.

( http://www.hkix.net/hkix/connected.htm )

If you think that these 1000MB figures are even within an order of magnitude of the access speeds you would get to public internet servers in, say, the US then frankly you have absolutely no clue what the internet is about.

[MrMoo]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Even then, the total bandwidth connected by each of PCCW and HKBN at the HK Internet Exchange is "only" 30GBs.

From reading through the HKIX material the connectivity their is only for intra-HK traffic, external to HK, i.e. to the greater Internet, is forbidden. Their documentation, possibly out of date, is very much orientated to sub-1gb individual links to members due to their limited routing fabric.

So most of the speed is not available intra-HK, Pacific Internet still amusingly boast of their 1gb link connecting their two HK data centres. Its certainly not bountiful to the greater Internet as most of us already realise. What is a bit concerning though is ISP hosted servers often get the worst deal out of everything: which seems to be a supply & demand issue. HK website owners want cheaper prices, hosts oversell more than even dreamhost but on 1mb lines.

Hopefully the WoW kids and Internet traders will pay the top dollar and subsidize the improved infrastructure for the rest of us

[Vrindavan]

>>For the pricing, you can always got around 2x% discount if you don't choose those package with gift redeem


i don't know it is possible to drop those as an option

[Vrindavan]

>> Most likely crap internationally.

what are u refer to ? which company ?



i would like to research all other consumer broadband options other than PCCW, HKBN, Pacific Internet, icable, HGC

please suggest more options

[KnowItAll]

Netfront has top notch service. Used them for years before we switched to PCCW because of Now TV.