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Wanderer

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empzb said:
I live in a new build estates, in a large village not far from the m32 junction in Bristol. We get 2mbps internet. How the heck remote areas will get fibre when a decent connection doesnt exist here is beyond me.
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Back home in the village where I normally live the internet is 15mb, but we campaigned for fibre and now the cab is installed, not live yet though.

Here in Dublin we got 250gb cable, company called Cablewatch, it's it's woeful, patchy, up and down slow even though SpeedTest says something like 150mb....

I'd imagine there's no contention on FTTP is there? That's the big issue, school kids slowing it down!
 
CatmanV2

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Wanderer said:
Back home in the village where I normally live the internet is 15mb, but we campaigned for fibre and now the cab is installed, not live yet though.

Here in Dublin we got 250gb cable, company called Cablewatch, it's it's woeful, patchy, up and down slow even though SpeedTest says something like 150mb....

I'd imagine there's no contention on FTTP is there? That's the big issue, school kids slowing it down!
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Well yes, technically there will be contention. Unless you install a fibre to each device :)
It's the internet, there's always contention. Where is what changes.

And whether it's performance impacting

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safrane

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empzb said:
I live in a new build estates, in a large village not far from the m32 junction in Bristol. We get 2mbps internet. How the heck remote areas will get fibre when a decent connection doesnt exist here is beyond me.
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Must be close to my second house then Emersons...patchy wifi even though im less than 1/4 mile from the University Composite Park.
 
rockits

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Wanderer said:
I'd imagine there's no contention on FTTP is there? That's the big issue, school kids slowing it down!
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No not on either my circuits but potentially there could be depending on what the ISP does at the backend/core. We have dedicated fibre all the way into the premises. It is full speed up and down 24/7. With latency of around 2-4ms pretty much all the time which is very good. I cannot complain but it was 4 years of grief to get there.

Virgin are biggest culprits in the main of contention. Big headline figures of 300Mbps and more but historically terrible contended and traffic managed/shaped at peak times often down to double figures.
 
rockits

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empzb said:
I live in a new build estates, in a large village not far from the m32 junction in Bristol. We get 2mbps internet. How the heck remote areas will get fibre when a decent connection doesnt exist here is beyond me.
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This is what winds me up the most when we have a perfect opportunity to put in decent fibre infrastructure day one. There is no excuse not to put at least 100Mbps fibre into these developments.

Our govts and regulators just don't do enough, are not strong or forceful enough and certainly not bold or forward thinking enough. Bit should be a given and compolsury for all developers to install it day one as part of the planning permissions granted.
 
Hurricane52

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rockits said:
This is what winds me up the most when we have a perfect opportunity to put in decent fibre infrastructure day one. There is no excuse not to put at least 100Mbps fibre into these developments.

Our govts and regulators just don't do enough, are not strong or forceful enough and certainly not bold or forward thinking enough. Bit should be a given and compolsury for all developers to install it day one as part of the planning permissions granted.
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Surely the developers should be putting this in to help them sell the houses?
 
midlifecrisis

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Wanderer said:
People want different things though, I'd prefer a solid say 30/30 with low ping and no jitter over 76/15 and latency. My son is a avid gamer, was the top 6 in the World at something, and the top in Europe, his criteria are low latency and jitter. He played this chap in a tourney and just missed out on £15k, cos of that he reckoned.
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Racing excuse? Lol
 
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safrane said:
Must be close to my second house then Emersons...patchy wifi even though im less than 1/4 mile from the University Composite Park.
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Very close. Frampton Cotterell. Shocking for it to be so poor with no other options yet. Just hope the new estate that's being built a stone's throw away is going to bring it up to speed.
 
Andyk

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Free they say...Well that's ********....Its to be paid for through the tax payer so I am still paying for it then....
 
philw696

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Taken from a mate of mine in Weston super Mare a Tory love child but quite good.

"Project Dot Comrade".

As we know, this is Corbie's plan to put superfast, fibre optic broadband connections into the homes of poor people. (Presumably homeless poor people will get given some sort of cellular modem instead.)

Anyway, this is quite a clever strategy when you think about it. Let's assume that labour gets voted into power in the forthcoming general election on the back of the party's promise to give every single poor person a superfast, fibre optic broadband connection.

Then, five years later in 2024, all that Corbie needs to do is promise to give computers to those poor people so they can actually use their broadband connections. The labour party would be almost guaranteed to get re-elected...
 
rockits

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Then on the commercial front the BDUK Gigabit Voucher Scheme is just about to run out of money again as not enough has been committed.

We tend to tickle a lot at the good stuff then waste too much on the other stuff. Tickling is nice but it is good to be serious about something more often than not.
 
lifes2short

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philw696 said:
Taken from a mate of mine in Weston super Mare a Tory love child but quite good.

"Project Dot Comrade".

As we know, this is Corbie's plan to put superfast, fibre optic broadband connections into the homes of poor people. (Presumably homeless poor people will get given some sort of cellular modem instead.)

Anyway, this is quite a clever strategy when you think about it. Let's assume that labour gets voted into power in the forthcoming general election on the back of the party's promise to give every single poor person a superfast, fibre optic broadband connection.

Then, five years later in 2024, all that Corbie needs to do is promise to give computers to those poor people so they can actually use their broadband connections. The labour party would be almost guaranteed to get re-elected...
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what a cunning plan:D

 
mjheathcote

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We have BT infinity in our village.
We are fortunate but the problem is the last 500 yards or so of copper, underground, 50+ years old.
The copper pairs keep breaking underground due to years of sinkage and stretch and the number of unbroken unused pairs has almost run out. Ours failed a couple of years ago and the BT engineer said its a real problem.
The route from the box on the main road apparently isn't a straight run up our road so not easy to replace, or install fibre for that matter.
 
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