[ubuntu-uk] I'm not a Virgin customer

[Michael Daniels]

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:45:52 +0000
> From: rob at esdelle.co.uk
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm not a Virgin customer
> 
> On 03/02/12 20:20, Michael Daniels wrote:
> > As stated, you will only get the advertised higher speeds with a Virgin
> > Optical Fibre connection.
> > When virgin cabled our nearest town, 3 miles away, they did not cut in
> > to our village of 6000.
> > BT will provide broadband to a cabinet, less than a 1/4 mile away so
> > when it happens, we should
> > do better than the 2.5 megs that we have already.
> > Optical fibre should be laid into every address, but the too political,
> > "who pays" policy remains
> > unresolved.
> > Currently, Virgin seen to offer the best available speeds, as long as
> > you have their optical fibre
> > installed at your address.
> > For me, it remains a waiting game.
> >
> >
> 
> Well from what I understand later on this year folks who have fibre to 
> the cabinet from BT will be able to get up to 80Mbit downloads and 
> 20Mbit uploads, and even more interesting is that it seems that BT will 
> possibly be offering the option to opt for a full fibre connection, 
> although the article I read on ThinkBroadband.com suggests that it could 
> possibly be quite expensive to start with...
Yes, but BT has not scheduled our area yet and as the local network is copper, we should be able to achieve a reasonable speed.A 1/4 mile of optical fibre cable will probably be cost-prohibitive to non-business customers, I am not sure what benefits will be achieved from higher speeds when Microsoft download speeds can be as low as 46k, slower than a dialled connection.We will see higher speeds soon, but optical cable providers will focus on business users, not much money to be made fromdomestic customers.Gone are the days when two unloaded pairs were needed for a 2megs PCM link, with regularly spaced regenerators,watching streaming video on a data link that sat on a telephone line, allowing phone service and "high-speed data was never a consideration.Each transmission system has limitations, if every customer watched streaming video, the system might fall overunless huge buffering was incorporated. Theoretically, each connection may receive 80megs or more data,but in practice, maybe not all at the same time.Will be interesting to see the developments of the next few months.

> 
> http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5016-fttp-on-demand-for-those-who-want-it.html
> 
> A friend of mine is really gutted, he has Virgin near where he lives, 
> there is a Virgin connection 2 doors up from where he lives but as his 
> house was built after Virgin installed their cabling they won't cable up 
> his house.
> 
> In Devon Eurobell (prior to Telewest taking them over) cabled up Exeter, 
> Newton Abbot, Torquay, Paignton and Plymouth but left out Teignmouth, 
> Dawlish, Starcross and some of the other towns in the area.  I never did 
> understand why, but it looks like Teignmouth at least is getting fibre 
> to the cabinet in the next year.
> 
> As it happens I believe BT have a 110Mbit fibre service available which 
> is just slightly quicker than Virgin, presumably that's why Virgin are 
> upgrading to 120Mbit.
> 
> Rob
> 
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