Verizon Fios (Fiber-to-the-Premises) Internet (Cheap??) plus other questions

[Timothy Domst]

On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Alex Koch wrote:

> Back to the original announcement, here's a message that I saw on 
> another mailing list:
>
> "My wife who is Verizon retired informs me that the SS links were
> installed in the central offices between 10 and 15 years ago and most
> of the homes (and presumably businesses) in Buffalo NY now have fiber
> installed to the outside of the buildings (drops).   They have been
> planning this for decades. "
>
> However, I'm not that optimistic on when it might actually be 
> available.
>
>
>
> Alex Koch
> ack22 at cornell.edu
>
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That's what's great about Buffalo, we are well connected to 
infrastructure like highways and power and we are going to get this 
good DSL soon.  I bet we do before a lot of bigger cities.

I have a second, working, 1.13GHz Linux box now that I am going to use 
with 10/100 NIC cards as a router.  Will my speed be any better 
compared to what I get with my Linksys router?  I mean can the little 
router be a bottleneck?

How much faster is my server going to be if I leave XWindows out of the 
kernel?  Does it matter for a little hobby server like mine, should I 
just leave XWindows in for easy configuration?  I can sftp and ssh into 
my Linux server from my Mac so I really don't need much after I learn 
all the config files.