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| Thread ID: 121102 | 2011-10-11 22:26:00 | UFB | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 1236898 | 2011-10-11 23:59:00 | UFB = Governmental Unidentified Flying Bullstuff. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1236899 | 2011-10-12 01:38:00 | The problem is that if not enough people sign up for the service the project will rapidly become uneconomical and possibly never get finished. For this reason they really need to price it attractively or I smell a disaster coming. If you have a good ADSL connection already the benefits may be hard to see, but fibre does have a lot going for it. It has much greater bandwidth than copper so has the potential to go much faster as demand increases and technology improves. It is also virtually immune to the common causes of faults with copper lines and doesn't suffer from any kind of electrical or RF interference. On the down side you can't feed a normal phone line or power for a phone over a fibre (well you could convert the signal but not the power). Realistically though with my 16Mbps downstream ADSL2+ connection and 80Gb cap I would only consider changing to fibre if it was; a) The same price or cheaper with at least the same cap b) significantly faster without being significantly more expensive c) offered cool new features I would actually want to use (Movies / TV perhaps but you can do that on ADSL in theory) |
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| 1236900 | 2011-10-12 01:40:00 | I'll second that dugimodo! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1236901 | 2011-10-12 03:37:00 | WiFi for short Or iFibre for snort ;) |
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