Superhub : 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Looks like BT would have to spend billions to convert the likes of me.

Hence the proviso above.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Ah - shows how little I know about these things. So the telephone will run over IP?

Why? Your copper/ali line will still be there.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Or basement in my case.

Quite.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by pip08456

Hence the proviso above.



Why? Your copper/ali line will still be there.



Quite.

So the optical convertor is on the pole along with, say, 6 phone connections. What will BT do? Connect the converted signal piggy back onto each phone line? And how does that not then microreflect over the aluminium to the cabinet that iit doesn't need to go to?

[qasdfdsaq]

It'll work the exact same way FTTC works now. There is no "optical converter". There's a DSLAM for data. The analogue POTS phone line is continues to work the same as it always has.

[Kushan]

Seph, have a look at the telegraph poles in your street. See if a bunch of lines meet at a specific pole. That's likely going to be where your DP will be (guessing!).

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

So the optical convertor is on the pole along with, say, 6 phone connections. What will BT do? Connect the converted signal piggy back onto each phone line? And how does that not then microreflect over the aluminium to the cabinet that iit doesn't need to go to?

Thanks for the replies. But I haven't had the question answered (you don't have to, of course).

Fibre comes to the pole with a DSLAM on it.

That has to be converted to RF for the copper to pick up.

To avoid anything Broadband going back to the street cabinet and causing micro-reflections, they'd have to have frequency filters put in. Yes?

And would they as a matter of course tap each copper pair into the DSLAM irrespective of whether the customer was on BT Broadband?

[Dush]

Thought they rolled it out for a second!



Checked my config still the normal 152mbit one so it's an erroneous speedtest.net result.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Dush

Thought they rolled it out for a second!



Checked my config still the normal 152mbit one so it's an erroneous speedtest.net result.

I was amused at "faster than 93% of GB"!

[Martin_D]

300Mbps Service Coming Soon Too

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...e/td-p/2796357

[qasdfdsaq]

And here I am stuck on 10Mbps after boasting for years about being able to get triple-fibre.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11

300Mbps Service Coming Soon Too

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...e/td-p/2796357

sweet, at least we can end the speculation now and we know what the new tier is going to be.

[qasdfdsaq]

No we can't, all we know is they are testing something along the lines of 300/15.

[General Maximus]

which is what we expected (I had hoped for 300/20) so I very much doubt it is going to change.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

which is what we expected (I had hoped for 300/20) so I very much doubt it is going to change.

If they add upstream channels, mon General ......

[General Maximus]

I am sure we were saying that this time last year and I am still on 2

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

which is what we expected (I had hoped for 300/20) so I very much doubt it is going to change.

I have a very strong suspicion you are wrong there, Sir.