Hello John,
We have Virgin (ex Nynex) in the street and my neighbour is on it. The
essential difference is that the copper to the house is broadband
co-axial, not ordinary twisted pair, as it was set up for cable TV. The
Government trumpeted at the time that it was harnessing the private
sector to kit out the UK with a high speed comms network for the future.
I'm told that the R-pi is over the counter now at Microdirect in
Manchester, whilst I'm still waiting for mine (due in a few of weeks time).
Bryan in Cheshire
On 27/09/2012 07:50, Dave Walker wrote:
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Subject: [Ql-Users] ADSL speed up
Greetings!
I live in the UK and have a BT ADSL connection (400 metres by wire to
the exchange).
Generally, bandwidth was in the order of 6 to 8Mbps - usually the
latter provided I did not switch of my router too frequently.
Move over copper, glass has arrived.
Stable reported speed (W/Xp system tray) for the past 3 days? 21.3Mbps.
I like glass... and I had to tell someone. ;-) [Also might be of teccy
interest - eh?]
Best wishes to all,
Through the glass,
John in Wales
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Interesting you should say that - I am on cable (Virginmedia) and as it
happens my speed was doubled overnight from 10Mbps to 20Mbps (at no extra
cost to me). I can now get up to 120Mbps if I was prepared to pay the
premium for the extra speed.
Talking to a friend, it appears that Virginmedia's current round of internal
network upgrades are preparing them to deliver speeds of up to 400Mbps to
consumers when the time is right. I believe that is based on fibre
technology up to the street level, and then copper for the last leg into
customers houses. I would not be surprised to see any new installations
starting to use fibre for that last hop as well assuming that is not already
happening.
Dave Walker
Tel: +44 (0)1707 652791
Web: http://www.itimpi.com
Skype: itimpi
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