What can you say, when you move from the high through put of 5 Mbps of cable modem to iffy fixed wireless of the country, you become excited for anything close to reliable Internet. This weekend I surprised a friend in San Antonio, Texas for his 40th birthday and when I popped open my MacBook Pro yesterday to download Firefox’s latest beta, I was stunned to see the download ticker hit the 800 Kbps. I quickly went to Speedtest.net and was nearly floored when the connection tested at no lower than 7.9 Mbps. I looked to my buddy and asked him, “Dude, what are you connected to out here?” “Fiber,” was his response. “Fiber?! Out here?” was my shocked reply as they live about 30 minutes north of San Antonio.

Yes, it was fiber. Lucky for him, he just got it dropped into his home a few months ago and man, what fiber can do for you. Yes, I would agree that fiber indeed makes on regular. I’d use his connection regularly. So last night I was downloading everything I could. His upload speeds weren’t fantastic at 800 Kbps, but it was solid and latency was low enough that it still seemed blazing when compared to my crappy connection at home.

So, I’ve experienced a blessed experience on true broadband of fiber (though this fiber optic use is kinda interesting, too) and hope that one day I too will have the availability of fiber. But for now, I’ll be happy with my forthcoming T1 install and enjoy the 1.544 Mbps upload speeds (which will better you Rog’ ) as well as down at the same. Consistent, low latency, reliable Internet will be nice to have but dang, 8 megs was grand!