On 16/08/2017 22:28, Neil J. McRae wrote:
On 16 Aug 2017, at 21:46, David Derrick <[email protected]> wrote:
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g.fast sounds like another half-arsed excuse not to do fibre
properly. On our island pretty much everyone only gets a flaky
1Mbps, by the time you've patched it up to do g.fast how much extra
would it have been to just go full fibre?
David Across the country -£billions.
I wasn't talking about across the country though, I was talking about a
specific location with really bad infrastructure. Our house is just
under 2km from the exchange and the sync speed is 1Mbps down with
frequent drops. To get g.fast you're going to be running fibre most of
the way to us anyway (perhaps as close as over the road), adding a
cabinet with all its gubbins inside as well as upgrading the kit in the
exchange plus its backhaul. Add a bit more fibre and you don't need any
cabinets, OK you'll need different kit in the exchange with I assume a
different cost but you'll still need to upgrade the link off the island.
Where you have a village, running fibre to the middle and then g.fast
for the final bit to avoid the fiddly last hop to each property probably
does represent a sizeable saving. It just seems to me that there are
cases where the short term savings might not be so great.
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David Derrick
Systems & Network Engineer
Entanet International Ltd
0330 100 0330
