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Originally posted by bigitup_j
well seeing that last week the grove park area (south london, by lewisham) has started offering bb, i can see more areas gaining this service.
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This sums up why I'm still interested in the NTL London broadband issue- areas that you think may never get broadband and are ready to give up on are suddenly live for broadband service! From what I've read before, I'm led to believe much of the Videotron network is a patchwork quilt of good and bad, some of it capable of supporting broadband, some of it not (at least without an expensive upgrade/ rewiring).
At least NTL are gradually rolling out broadband where it'll work on the pre-existing Videotron network. As far as I can work out though, upgrades/ rewiring of bad pathes in the network is not happening at the moment, nor are there imminent plans for it to happen.
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Originally posted by Escapee
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I would of thought someone with knowledge of the London HFC network would be able to explain why some areas can and some can't get the service, I know from speaking to some of the tech's up there that the infrastructure was very strange in some areas.
I know that analogue TV for some areas were injected from hubsites in another area etc, I think it was a bit of a mish mash.
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It'd be great
if someone with knowledge of the London network could post some technical information here.
(As an aside, what does HFC stand for?)
What I'd really like (and many others would too) is to be told of whether the network in their area is any good. However I'm somewhat resigned to the fact that I'll only find this out if NTL ever offer broadband locally.
(I'm sure they will eventually, but I'm not waiting 10 years!)