I wonder if people realise what advertised Fibre really is a lot of the time. correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it, a good percentage of the time the Fibre is only from the cabinet in the street:
Virgin's service is fibre based to cabinets, as long as you are a cable customer, they use DOCSIS for both Broadband and TV services which is a copper cable from home to the cabinet and then a fibre "backbone". If you all not a cable customer then you will on Virgins LLU package. **The 40Mb BT infinity is based on a similar solution although not DOCSIS, however it is still a "copper" cable going from home to cabinet - fibre-to-the-cabinet (FFTC). However around 25% of BT's network will be able to get 100MB connection which is fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). I remember reading somewhere that BT will offer a minimum download speed 15Mb on the 40Mb package, whereas Virgin's customers got an average of around 47.5Mb when on the 50Mb package. Rgds Peter.
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