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Fibre Optic Broadband


spursmaddave

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If its any consolation I have had to cough up for 2 gigabit switches as the crappy BT router only had one gigabit connection and my place has 4 seperate connections in different rooms.... all sorted now and full bandwith in every room :yahoo:

 

Just in case anyone is not aware you have to be wired to get these speeds as the wireless hardware supplied only goes up to about 40Mb

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we're on a large posh residential estate, round the corner from bt's research centre at martlesham. they have trialled stuff in our area in the past. but obviously not this

 

They only have a hand full of test areas for FTTP until recently it wasn't possible due to the ofcom commitments to always have a working even if the power went off. Smd is a very looking man indeed! In the next year or so fibre should be put into new housing estates though which will be good! I no use to us though haha!

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im around the 30-40 mark as wireless with BT infinity. i have not done the test wired before

 

what package is this 200+ stuff? i dont have any issues at present, and its fast for films, games and porn

 

but id like to know iv got the speed, if needed, a bit like car speed i suppose... because im not going to lie, i like my porn, it makes me happy :D

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Impressive I must say, I get just below 40Mbs down and 10Mbs up here.

 

However I'm intrigued by the spelling of "fibre".... i'm going to sound like a pedant here but I'm genuinely interested on the correct telecommunications terminology.... i'm bring uber lazy here as I could walk around to the comms team on the other side of the building but i cant be bothered :lol:

 

I've always believed the cables are "fiber" all lower case using the american spelling, the only time "Fibre" is used is actually in reference to "Fibre Channel" the protocol so i'm wondering why the service providers brand it as Fibre Optic?

I'm looking from a SAN perspective here so dont shoot me down :p

 

I have a feeling it's purely down to being the British English spelling of a word nothing to do with strands of cable :lol:

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Haha you are correct about my employer however from a standards perspective in this instance the yanks I believe have it correct as much as it annoys me but Ekona's answer will suffice :)

 

SMD is quiet so I assume he's still running from the fuzz on the m1 :lol:

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Haha you are correct about my employer however from a standards perspective in this instance the yanks I believe have it correct as much as it annoys me but Ekona's answer will suffice :)

 

SMD is quiet so I assume he's still running from the fuzz on the m1 :lol:

 

My cables are a different color to your hence Fibre is the correct spelling :teeth:

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Well, after saying we would have fibre broadband in June last year BT have finally got their act together and we are upgrading on 5th June :yahoo: :yahoo:Nothing quite as good as the warp speeds Smut Mad Dave is getting but I'll take 27.3mb/s as opposed to 3.4mb/s that we get now on a good day. :)

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