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Originally Posted by J..M
Umm....... Where are these optic fibres then ?
Do they feed the steel cubicals VM have at the side of the road ? ...... Cos the stuff under my garden is copper ........
What I do know is @ peak times both VM & BT sloooooooow right down...... Which ain't brill.... But it would appear to be one of those unfortunate facts of life......Another fact of life is that VM is cheaper  |
FTTx or Fibre to the Cabinet in this case, up to the last 200m is copper. Any slowing of internet speeds though is not down to the length of copper cable used and would be down to, probably, UBR usage etc.
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Arthur, Sky bought EasyNet a couple of years ago, which gives them a network and local loop access, so your rumour is in fact, history. |
Sky/Easynet or Sky Network Services as I believe they are now called do have their own national fibre optic network, in the same way that Thus, C&W, Global Crossing etc do.
Actually a large percentage of the Sky network is either in Virgin Media ducts or on Virgin Media fibre and is maintained by Virgin Media.
Sky will have equipment connected to their fibre network within BT exchanges so they will still be limited to long copper runs to reach their customers utilising the BT Access Network the same as all the ISPs.
Only Virgin, and to a massively smaller degree BT, have the capability of FTTx.
Oh and that Smallworld outfit up in the North West and South West Scotland.