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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: UncleUB on December 22, 2009, 10:16:11 AM
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BT's superfast broadband network will be completed in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, the firm has announced.
Completed for who?
However, it will only reach around 40% of homes, mainly in towns and cities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8424401.stm
No doubt those that already have a fast connection will get an even faster one,and the rest of us............. :shrug2:
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One can see both sides of this rather lamentable situation:-
From a consumer's viewpoint the announcement probably adds more confusion than clarity.
Unless I'm missing something, only a very few new-build sites are likely to be equipped with fibre to the home and thus have genuine super-fast broadband.
The majority of urban homes in cities may be provided with Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) solutions, many of them competing directly with Virgin Media's superior co-axial cable from the cabinet. All those BT (retail and wholesale) customers lucky enough to obtain a FTTC solution will be relying on the existing D side aluminium and copper twisted pairs and thus only a very small proportion would seem likely to get anywhere near 40 mbps. (I believe Zen suggested that an average of 9 to 13 mbps was more likely.) Those still on DACS line splitters will obtain nothing, nor will those in sparser communities who are to be excluded from FTTC upgrades.
From BT's viewpoint there is perhaps some justification for painting a rosier picture, even if it is misty and murky in places, but I suggest a more realistic description of "slower copper cables" might demonstrate the urgent need for very significant investment.
Kind regards,
Walter
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Tbh,its about time BT and the government came clean and told consumers the more likely outcome instead of painting a very false (imo) picture of what most of UK consumer are likely to get/end up with.
At present it is all ifs and buts,will do/might do etc.
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What good is it going to be if this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8426104.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8426104.stm) takes off.
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Hi
When a good connection was 2Mbps . BT considered 400Kbps Throughput as acceptable
Now with 8 Max (four fold increase in synch ) BT consider 600Kbps throughput as acceptable 50% increase
So with 100 Megabits ( a twelve(about) fold increase in synch) then my guess is that BT up the acceptable throughput to 3 *50%= 150%
= 600Kbps +(600Kbps * 150%) = 1.5Mbps throughput ;D
That will solve the problems with
quote : What good is it going to be if this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8426104.stm takes off. :lol:
Regards Jeff