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Originally Posted by cook1984
Fibre optic broadband is usually taken to mean fibre optic all the way to the home. It is not clear how Virgin's system is that different from BT's.
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I believe I'm a case that highlights the difference. My attenuation on a DSL line is over 60db. This equates to about a 6km run of cable between me and my local phone exchange (it probably isn't this far, some of the attenuation is probably due to old cable). This puts my max ADSL broadband speed at well under 1Mb in practise.
With Virgin's fibre to the distribution boxes, this limitation does not apply and I can theoretically get any of their advertised speeds. Notice I say theoretically. I won't continue to whinge about my ongoing problems on this thread. Suffice to say I'm caught between a rock and a hard place.
The bottom line is your speed on fibre to the exchange is a postcode lottery. Your speed on fibre to the distn box is not. (It then becomes a UBR lottery but that's a whole different story).