Broadband future?
This question is asked many times on the forums. I've asked it myself. Honestly there appears to be little to look forward too. I'm one of those people who are stuck at a very poor average speed of 3-3.5MBps with no sign I'll ever see an improvement.
The solution in my mind is quite simply. The UK needs to switch to a Fibre-To-The-Home network infrastructure. Nothing else will be able to meet demands of users such as myself. Each year I'm forced into placing more and more limits on how I use the Internet because of lack of bandwidth. Currently I need a minimum of 5MBps up/downstream but there is no one that offers such a service where I live.
I'd happily play £1000 for the installation of FTTH and £50 a month there after as I'm certainly not going to waste money every month paying hosting companies for something I could do myself with a decent connection. The problem is I can't seem to give my money away as no one is interested in offering FTTH
The path forward at the moment is the rollout of ADSL2+ in 2007 by LLU providers and BT in 2008. After that it gets very unclear. There is some talk of VDSL2 but even that doesn't increase speed on long lines. VDSL2 may come with the rollout of FTTC (Fibre-To-The-Cabinet) to reduce the distance the VDSL2 signal will have to travel.
The solution in my mind is quite simply. The UK needs to switch to a Fibre-To-The-Home network infrastructure. Nothing else will be able to meet demands of users such as myself. Each year I'm forced into placing more and more limits on how I use the Internet because of lack of bandwidth. Currently I need a minimum of 5MBps up/downstream but there is no one that offers such a service where I live.
I'd happily play £1000 for the installation of FTTH and £50 a month there after as I'm certainly not going to waste money every month paying hosting companies for something I could do myself with a decent connection. The problem is I can't seem to give my money away as no one is interested in offering FTTH
The path forward at the moment is the rollout of ADSL2+ in 2007 by LLU providers and BT in 2008. After that it gets very unclear. There is some talk of VDSL2 but even that doesn't increase speed on long lines. VDSL2 may come with the rollout of FTTC (Fibre-To-The-Cabinet) to reduce the distance the VDSL2 signal will have to travel.
This country sucks 
Quote from: Firejack I'd happily play £1000 for the installation of FTTH and £50 a month there after as I'm certainly not going to waste money every month paying hosting companies for something I could do myself with a decent connection. The problem is I can't seem to give my money away as no one is interested in offering FTTH
If you're remote, you can probably multiply those figures by 50 to get to a more realistic current price.
I assume that the current situation is that everyone has a pair of copper wires which run all the way to the exchange?
Isn't it likely that BT will replace some of the copper on their major bundles (ie buried cables in the street) with fibre - but in such a way that ADSL will continue to operate. This would have the effect of reducing the effective line length.
However, how would you provide a power supply so that phones could still work during a power failure (999 calls etc).
Isn't it likely that BT will replace some of the copper on their major bundles (ie buried cables in the street) with fibre - but in such a way that ADSL will continue to operate. This would have the effect of reducing the effective line length.
However, how would you provide a power supply so that phones could still work during a power failure (999 calls etc).
Quote from: PJ There's a simple answer to that.....
Give me the money and I'll be gone.
