Fibre broadband

[derrick]

Is it any good. does the fibre cable or tube, what ever you want to call it, Does it come into the house?

 

[midlife]

FTTC here, fibre to the cabinet which is just up the road. Copper cable from there.

Decent jump in speed from the old copper wire to the exchange setup. Would never go back despite getting BT to sort it

Shaun

 

[ColinJ]

If you get it through a dedicated Virgin Media link they run it up to a box in the house. Otherwise it will (generally?) be FTTC - Fibre To The Cabinet ...

I won't bother explaining it now because I see that midlife has just beaten me to it!

 

[Milzy]

I've moved out of the city & into the sticks, used to get 300mb/s on cable, now get 50mb/s. I've gone back in time 10 years.

 

[Freds Dad]

Broadband comes from the exchange via fibre to the fibre cabinet. It is in connected to the original copper cabinet and is supplied to your house via a copper pair either overhead from a pole or underground.
Virgin have a slightly different method of delivery whereas from the fibre cabinet it comes underground to your home via a copper cable.

You can have fibre direct to your home like big business have but the cost is phenomenal

 

[derrick]

So how is it faster if the last bit is wired?

 

[S-Express]

I've moved out of the city & into the sticks, used to get 300mb/s on cable, now get 50mb/s. I've gone back in time 10 years.

Depends on your definition of 'sticks' I suppose. Surprised anywhere in the 'sticks' can give you 50meg.

 

[S-Express]

So how is it faster if the last bit is wired?

Signal over copper degrades over distance (attenuation). FTTC delivers a high speed signal to your local green box, with the 'last mile' over copper. With such a high speed signal over most of the distance from the exchange, not much is lost over the last mile.

 

[fossyant]

76mg here and thats the fastest we can get. No virgin. We can stream HD movies at the same time as two machines are gaming and others web browsing, you tube. 20mg broadband struggled.

Copper to the house but the green box is only 100m away.

We also have unlimited data, and need it with the kids.

 

[midlife]

I live in the sticks and my old broadband was between 2 and 5 MB but with FTTC it's about 35.

Shaun

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I live in the sticks and my old broadband was between 2 and 5 MB but with FTTC it's about 35.

Shaun

Same as mine.

 

[fossyant]

[QUOTE 4713534, member: 9609"]0.7 to 3.5 here, often dies completely this time of the evening. - 9,700m line length apparently .[/QUOTE]

Snail mail is quicker ! Blimey thats slow.

 

[13 rider]

So how is it faster if the last bit is wired?

Basically distance and dB loss dictate your broadband speed . So pre fibre broadband your broadband equipment would be in the exchange if on the openreach BT network by having FTTC your broadband moves from the exchange to the green box which is nearly always much nearer so quicker speed . There is also technical differences with the broadband which also increases speed
I went from 2meg to 12meg

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Spent a year living on my own where I could only get 15mb adsl, now back with 80mb fibre and it's night and day, chalk and cheese etc etc etc

15mb was still plenty quick for the streaming I do (mostly cycling) and a lot of youtube but it quickly ran out of steam when a large number of devices were on the network. Last thursday there was 6 phones 2 tablets a laptop an apple TV box and a smart tv on at the same time, never hiccuped once

 

[Kajjal]

We have 50Mb fibre and it is fine for everything. Before on 3Mb broadband as soon as someone started streaming anything HD everything ground to a halt.