Fibre Optic Line to my House! Is this available in the UK?


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I moved form the UK to SA, and all my friends laughed at my internet speed....

Now I am getting Fibre Lines straight in to my House!

How cool is that....

look: http://ipinionate.com/?p=47

Found this article, and I am watching them today digging the trenches to our Flat block!

Can anyone tell me what to expect.. speed wise?

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Virgin Media have been doing Fibre for a while now, and even BT are doing it now.

The speeds you get depend on the package you're paying for, or the hardware transmitting the data. Typically, you get close to the advertised speeds. In the UK at least.

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you dont get fiber to your house in england, on BT's new network it goes to a street cabinet then uses phone lines to get to your house and this can dramatically decrease the advertised speeds based on how far your house is from the cabinet.

Fiber optics to your flat will be alot better cus you should get a really good speed prolyl maximum advertiosed, and latency should be quite low but guess it depends on the contention of the line.

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you dont get fiber to your house in england, on BT's new network it goes to a street cabinet then uses phone lines to get to your house and this can dramatically decrease the advertised speeds based on how far your house is from the cabinet.

Fiber optics to your flat will be alot better cus you should get a really good speed prolyl maximum advertiosed, and latency should be quite low but guess it depends on the contention of the line.

You're confusing BT Infinity with BT's standard Internet connection is seems. As far as I am aware, BT Infinity (Fibre) connects from the exchange to the user via COAX, like Virgin Media.

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You're confusing BT Infinity with BT's standard Internet connection is seems. As far as I am aware, BT Infinity (Fibre) connects from the exchange to the user via COAX, like Virgin Media.

BT have two Fibre set-ups - FTTC, FIbre to the cabinet, and FTTP, Fibre to the premises. For most houses, BT lay Fibre lines all the way to the exchange cabinets, and then use the standard copper wires from there. Otherwise they'd have to be rewiring every single street in the country :p Though saying that, I have no idea how Virgin managed to get their Fibre setup in place.

The speeds still hit above 50Mb in most places easily though, upto about 80Mb with FTTC. FTTP obviously, faster, seeing as the fibre goes directly to the premises.

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In SA they will go in to the Building and you will get a 100Mbps connection point :) a little Harsh $$$ but worth it...

Latency of 49 on most of my Games in EU, from SA :)

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BT have two Fibre set-ups - FTTC, FIbre to the cabinet, and FTTP, Fibre to the premises. For most houses, BT lay Fibre lines all the way to the exchange cabinets, and then use the standard copper wires from there. Otherwise they'd have to be rewiring every single street in the country :p Though saying that, I have no idea how Virgin managed to get their Fibre setup in place.

The speeds still hit above 50Mb in most places easily though.

Virgin bought out NTL and Telewest which had lay a lot of Coax/Fibre for cable Internet/television.

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You can actually get residential FTTP (Fibre To The Premises) in the UK but only BT offer this on any form of wide scale (as BT Infinity in addition to the FTTC flavour) and even then it's far from a widespread rollout. At present it is 100Mbit but will be going up to 330Mbit very shortly.

People are under the impression that Virgin Media and the FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) version of BT Infinity are services that offer fibre to your house. They don't. They are both fibre to the street cabinet and with Virgin Media, it's coax to your house. With BT it's your regular copper cabling from the cabinet to your house with VDSL2 running over it.

You're confusing BT Infinity with BT's standard Internet connection is seems. As far as I am aware, BT Infinity (Fibre) connects from the exchange to the user via COAX, like Virgin Media.

Not the case. As above, the wiring from the cabinet to your house doesn't change, it remains the same old copper cable it always was, just with VDSL2 running over it instead of ADSL. VDSL2 offers much faster speeds but requires a very short line length to offer high speeds.

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FTTP can give you terrabyte download speed if you want it all depends on how much you want to pay BT for the pleasure. Im currently on a 1gb pipe in my London residence :)

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bt infinity connect to the house via telephone wire. Virgin uses coaxial cable. You can get real fibre to the home from bt next year, you'll have to pay a few hundred pounds for that. You can get 110mb on bt infinity if you were a lucky person to get fttp, there will be a 330mb tier available on july 2nd.

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I've got BT Infinity, I get around 76/17 and tbh its not all that often I ever see it max out, generally see around 3-6MB/s down, some FTPs max out and I see my full 8.9MB/s but its probably only 30-40% of downloads I see hit that

Plus if I get 100meg+ I`ll have to buy a new router

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I would kill for something like this to my house in Alabama ... where I'm at currently, I have one cable company in my city and it blows, others have tried to come in, but it gets blocked by the judge, who also owns the cable company

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I'm stuck with fiber to the node with u-verse here in the U.S. It really isn't that bad though. 24/3, I test around it pretty consistently. I think a pure all fiber solution is the holy grail though, FIOS ... and your solution. Let us know how it goes.

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I would kill for something like this to my house in Alabama ... where I'm at currently, I have one cable company in my city and it blows, others have tried to come in, but it gets blocked by the judge, who also owns the cable company

I am in the exact same boat as you are. I am TIRED of all this bull**** politics that goes into this sort of thing. Everyone always says its who you vote for, but in reality it means who has the most money. I would love to be able to relocate to the UK, as it seems like its getting better every passing day, and the US is falling father away from what made it great to begin with. Anyways, cheers to you sir for getting a killer connection :p

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I am in the exact same boat as you are. I am TIRED of all this bull**** politics that goes into this sort of thing. Everyone always says its who you vote for, but in reality it means who has the most money. I would love to be able to relocate to the UK, as it seems like its getting better every passing day, and the US is falling father away from what made it great to begin with. Anyways, cheers to you sir for getting a killer connection :p

We do have an advantage for broadband and mobile network coverage in the UK, but no because we've got a lot smaller area to cover, and generally denser populations, so it's cheaper for companies to get their infrastructures set-up. I'd imagine it would cost a ridiculous amount to lay Fibre to even 10% US households :p

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I moved form the UK to SA, and all my friends laughed at my internet speed....

Now I am getting Fibre Lines straight in to my House!

How cool is that....

look: http://ipinionate.com/?p=47

Found this article, and I am watching them today digging the trenches to our Flat block!

Can anyone tell me what to expect.. speed wise?

first off, welcome to cape town. And lucky you, wished we have fiber in our area...

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You're confusing BT Infinity with BT's standard Internet connection is seems. As far as I am aware, BT Infinity (Fibre) connects from the exchange to the user via COAX, like Virgin Media.

BT Fibre still uses the same crappy twisted copper pair that already runs into your house. They're only replacing the line between the exchange and your local cabinet.

FTTP isn't even mainstream yet.

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