Perhaps I should add that ADSL2plus services are generally not
speed-limited, as well as being mostly uncapped.
There are exceptions. Free Sky broadband for Sky TV customers is capped
at 2GB per month.
Primus, a Canadian company reknown for cheap offerings, has a capped
option alongside an uncapped one on TalkTalk infrastrucure.
OpenReach offers 40/2 40/10 and 80/10 megabits/s as fibre options.
Competitors tend not to offer the middle option.
FTTH is capped at circa 350/? megabits/s. BT Retail will install on a
per home or business basis from the existing FTTC.
On 01/08/14 20:51, Fred Stratton wrote:
I shall attempt an answer, probably to a slightly different question
to the one you are actually asking.
Remember, the UK is a member state of the EU.
Cable cost too much to install in the 1980s, partially causing the
demise of Nynex. Cable is routed underground here, like most
services. All cable, which covers most major cities, out as far as
here in the suburbs, is run by Virgin Media. No price competition.
Lost a lot of video content to BT and Sky. Probably price competitive
with Sky satellite TV. Tiered bandwidth offering, comparable to fibre
in speed, heavily traffic-shaped.
The telecom operator BT has no state involvement.
BT is comprised of two parts. One is BT Retail, which has circa 38 per
cent of the retail market.
The other part is the supposedly separate OpenReach, which owns and
maintains infrastructure, and sells services to 3rd parties. AFAIK, BT
Wholesale also sells telephony services to third parties on top of
OpenReach services.
Because of its dominant position, the regulator, OfCom, regulates
OpenReach prices for services to third party service providers.
It is currently investigating fibre prices, on the basis that these
are too high.
Not all services come via BT. TalkTalk has the most separated
infrastructure. Sky uses OpenReach fibre backhaul.
Local Loop Unbundling means that there are eight or so different
DSLAMs in each telephone exchange. Sky and TalkTalk in addition have
their own non OpenReach voice telephony equipment.
There are two tiers of ISP.
One is composed of the big players. These are BT Retail, Sky and
TalkTalk. BT Retail have 5 brands operating as separate entities,
including Plusnet, notable for carrier grade NAT and traffic shaping.
None have caps or download limits.
These three are focused around content delivery, principally video.
The service is cheap, with a plug in gateway provided. Contracts are
generally for one year. Customer service is hopeless. You are paid
inducements and cashback to change provider. Whilst the ADSL price is
cheap, the cost of the phone line is steadily ratcheting up.
If the price of a service increases by 10 per cent or more in a year,
the retail customer can leave the ISP, whatever the contract says.
I am obliged to pay money to a public corporation, the BBC. These are
a major online video content provider, and the main competitor to the
three main ISPs for content. These ISPs pay fees to Akamai principally
to access iPlayer, and complain about it.
The others are the smaller players such as EE, and boutique providers
like Zen and AAISP.
EE, or Everything Everywhere, are T-Mobile and Orange, a combined
unit in the UK providing mobile telephony, and internet services over
the BT network. BT Wholesale, I think, provide and run their
infrastructure.
Zen and AAISP provide a good service over lines rented from OpenReach
or TalkTalk. They have customer dervice and respond to faults. They
cost ten times as much as the big three, because they make their money
by charging for bandwidth. There are many others in this category.
Some provide ipv6.
Retail customers find deals through sites such as this
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-broadband
The fibre infrastrucure has been rolled out by BT. Fujitsu, and
Digital Region, a public enterprise, have pulled out or folded.
Sky and TalkTalk currently use OpenReach infrastructure for fibre, but
are introducing some of their own cabinets as a joint experiment.
OpenReach FTTC uses Huawei or ECI MSANs. I have fibre cabinets 200
metres in either direction along the road.
CPE for ADSL is customer installed, and is generally a
TrendChip/Ralink or BroadCom based device with the usual driver BLOBs,
a 2.6 series kernel, and telnet access.
CPE for VDSL/FTTC is the official network endpint for fibre, rather
than the wall plate. The boxes provided are either Huawei HG612, or an
ECI equivalent.
These are cut down gateways without wireless, configured as VDSL2
'modems'. The HG 612 Is Broadcom based and has been unlocked. I have
used one on an ADSL2plus line. Source code is available, even some
Broadcom code released in error by Huawei. The ECI box is Lantiq
based, and blogic has had OpenWRT running on it. There are
configuration problems with uboot, so this not stable.
This partly answers your question. Note also I have said nothing about
mobile internet.
On 01/08/14 19:12, Dave Taht wrote:
uknof list:
There has been a long discussion on the cerowrt-devel list about
how/when/ and where to get bufferbloat related fixes into the head
ends and CPE, and it's confusing as to who can and what sort of
devices controls what,
The uk seems to have a vibrant dsl based isp market all getting stuff
from BT.
How does it work in Britain? I am under the impression that there are
a lot of HFSC + SFQ based rate limiters there for various classes of
service
See below for some open questions on the role of the DSLAM, the BRAS,
etc...
Or see "the ideas on how to simplify and popularize bufferbloat
control" thread:
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-July/thread.html
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi MIchael,
On Aug 1, 2014, at 06:51 , Michael Richardson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Sebastian Moeller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> No idea? How would you test this (any command line to
try). The good
>> thingg with the ping is that often even the DSLAM responds keeping
>> external sources (i.e. hops further away in the network) of
variability
>> out of the measurement...
>
> With various third-party-internet-access ("TPIA" in Canada),
the DSLAM
> is operated by the incumbent (monopoly) telco, and the layer-3
first hop
> is connected via PPPoE-VLAN or PPP/L2TP.
So they "own" the copper lines connecting each customer
to the DSLAM? And everybody else just rents their DSL service and
resells them? Do they really connect to the DSLAM or to the BRAS?
> The incumbent telco has significant
> incentive to make the backhaul network as congested and
bufferbloated as
> possible, and to mis-crimp cables so that the DSL resyncs at
different speeds
> regularly...
I think in Germany the incumbent has to either rent out
the copper lines to competitors (who can put their own lines
cards in DSLAMs backed by their own back-bone) or rent
"bit-stream" access that is the incumbent handles the DSL part on
both ends and passes the traffic either in the next central
office or at specific transit points. I always assumed
competitors renting these services would get much better
guarantees than end-customers, but it seems in Canada the
incumbent has more found ways to evade efficient regulation.
> my incumbent telco's commercial LAN extension salesperson
> proudly told me how they never drop packets, even when their
links are
> congested!!!
I really hope this is the opinion of a sales person and
not the network operators who really operate the gear in the
"field". On the other hand having sufficient buffering in the
DSLAM to never having to drop a packet sounds quite manly (and a
terrible waste of otherwise fine DRAM chips) ;)
>
> The Third Party ISP has a large incentive to deploy equipment
that supports
> whatever "bandwidth measurement" service we might cook up.
As much as I would like to think otherwise, the only way
to get a BMS in the field is if all national regulators require
it by law (well maybe if ITU would bake it into the next xDSL
standard that the DSLAM has to report current line speeds as per
SNMP? back to all down stream devices asking for it). But I am
not holding my breath...
Best Regards
Sebastian
>
> --
> Michael Richardson
> -on the road-
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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