> cable in my road and I was rather assuming that I'd get stonking
> speeds like true 56k. With my Worlonline phone service (uses BT
> telephone lines), I can't get above about 41666, because the tel lines
> are rather old and tired, with dirty signals. Why are your speeds so
> slow, do you think, on a new fibre-optic telephone network?
In Belfast, I can get transfers of about 42 - 45 Kbps on average, depending
on time of day. True 56k will only happen in ideal conditions (like a test
lab ;). The lines into your house are normal telephone (ie. copper) lines,
the backbone cables are fiber-optics - there has to be a bottle-neck like
this or you would not be able to use standard modems at all. I don't know
what the Cable-TV is connected to (possibly fibre, but likely high-bandwidth
(ie. thick) copper cable). The cable TV and the phone lines are connected
into the house separately (ie. the phone line is not in series with the
Cable).
FYI most telephone backbone systems (the major city/county/country-spanning
ones) are fibre now, otherwise they could not cope with the number of phone
users, nevermind modem users.
All the best,
Glenn "MacGyver" Davidson
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