Fibre broadband.

[P.]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Turns out the last few feet are copper, not fibre, which isn’t how I understood the deal but never mind. The engineer spotted that the house had an old ‘CableTel’ cable TV junction box so in effect everything he needed was pre-installed right back to the cover on the pavement. No digging, drilling or other disturbance whatsoever, just noticeably faster broadband. How that previously disused connection links to the fibre network I’ve no idea.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Mine is fibre right into my living room, atwhich point it becomes a standard ethernet cable to the router.
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[Easy-X]

Fibre to the cabinet (in the street) vs. fibre to the premises? Obviously the latter should be quicker but that's when the bottlenecks in the backend get exposed. Virgin used to be terrible in that area when they first started rolling out >100mb connections.
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[dave001]

im on 1gig/100meg cable with virgin but after there uk wide proformance to day

ie putting steavy wonder in charge of there broardband backbone
im glad that they just cabled the street for fiber to house and will be able to change to them soon

[CaNsA]

If you would like to see a replay of the VM network going tits up, the fail over and the re-routing click below.

https://bgpstream.crosswork.cisco.com/event/304079

[Easy-X]

Ah, I did wonder what was happening yesterday
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[dave001]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Nobby the Bastard]

It'll be about 20% of the down speed for a domestic user. To be honest the 150 mb download speed I have is fucking rediculous for a domestic user.
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[dave001]

[dave001]

[Nobby the Bastard]

We were happily doing all that with copper doing 50mb.

The actual limit is wifi connections. I don't have proper cat 5 cable running round my house and have no intention to put it in so the kids and the wife are restricted to 15mb per connection via the ring main if they are out of reach of the main router in the living room.

We have 3 routers in the house. One downstiars (15mb) one upstairs which shares the 15mb connection with whatever shit No. 2 son is running in his room and the one in the living room which is connected to the fibre.

Potentially there are 15+ devices connected at any given time in this house.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[dave001]

[CaNsA]

[dave001]

[P.]

[Easy-X]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I know we are only get 15Mbs cause speed test. I can literally swap between routers on my phone from where I'm sat and do it.

Mind you they are a few years old and no doubt going through the consumer unit isn't helping.
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[dave001]

[dave001]

[Nobby the Bastard]

How the fuck can anyone in a domestic environment even use 1Gbps? I downloaded 2 Gb of Mandalorian episode yesterday in about a minute and it barely achieved 15Mbps on the torrent.
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[dave001]

[Nobby the Bastard]