High speed fiber at Le Guanahani

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30MBS!

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broadband Internet Çtrès is a reality, at Le Guanahani St Barth. Since 14 February, the five-star Grand Cul-de-Sac is even the first hotel on the island connected to the optical fiber, driven by public law. A fiber drawn from Gustavia, via Lorient, in recent months. To the boundary of Grand Cul-de-Sac, in the vicinity of the hotel.

After a battery of tests, supervision of hos- such, and especially its customers,
now benefit "30 Mega flow rate constant and symmetrical," says Damien Houdayer, IT manager of the establishment. By offering pro- posed by Dauphin Telecom, while the FAI-ble currents were in charge of the con- nection. Wednesday, February 25 evening, the team of Guanahani St Barth had planned to celebrate around a champagne flute. Connect the hotel earlier than the optical fiber was the will of Martein Van Wagenberg, its Director General. Because until now on the internet, the Gua- Nahani St Barth suffered greatly from its geographical position on the island, very eccentric. "Where a very low rate, and sometimes outright cuts," says Damien Houdayer. These cuts were frequent in December, while the facility was sold out.

It is difficult to explain to a customer five stars that it can benefit from inter- net access, makes us understand Damien Houdayer. Today this is no longer the case. And the set of cadrement Guanahani St Barth is now considering all the uses made pos- sible by the very high speed. Knowing that this flow of 30 Megas could be even higher, depending on the deals offered by the suppliers. "With fiber, we can consider voice over IP (VoIP)", ie, the pos-
bility to call by the fiber, advance Damien Hou dayer. This would mean that the hotel would not have no subscription or phone bills, or a substantial reduction in costs. Another possibility, now, "the development of our range of video on demand for our customers," added the manager informatics. Or, to the hotel, the outsourcing of its data to secure. As a reminder, Community projects
the full deployment of optical fiber on the island on the horizon 2020. But in the immediate future, fiber optics will not go further in the direction of Toiny. To compensate, the Community has to benefit the residents of these areas of increasing speed of the ADSL network, before the arrival of the fiber.
 
I thought the slowish Internet was more due to limited bandwidth coming to the island, rather than an intra-island wiring issue.
 
I thought the slowish Internet was more due to limited bandwidth coming to the island, rather than an intra-island wiring issue.

Nope, there's some discussion about it on the Digerati forum here. We stayed in several villas last year and I digged a bit deeper for each one. The island is well connected, even the villas have quite good connections, the issue is between the two. One shouldn't forget money though, your carrier may not buy enough capacity :)

Good to hear the fiber is already at Guanahani side of the island.
 
Nope, there's some discussion about it on the Digerati forum here. We stayed in several villas last year and I digged a bit deeper for each one. The island is well connected, even the villas have quite good connections, the issue is between the two. One shouldn't forget money though, your carrier may not buy enough capacity :)

Good to hear the fiber is already at Guanahani side of the island.


Here is a link to Petri's investigative and informative work!

https://www.sbhonline.com/forums/threads/83757-SBH-Internet?p=902852&viewfull=1#post902852
 
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