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| Thread ID: 142375 | 2016-06-22 05:48:00 | Good Internet speeds | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 1422247 | 2016-06-23 00:14:00 | I have a cabinet just across the road from my house and get 14 Mbps Never have loading problems. Can't see any reason to upgrade. Never in a hurry these days anyway :) Ken :banana |
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| 1422248 | 2016-06-23 03:58:00 | Thought someone would have brought up FairGo's bit on ultra fast broadband. See cable is made from glass and it doesn't take much glass to make 300kms of fibre either. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1422249 | 2016-06-23 04:32:00 | I don't watch TV, what did fair go have to say? Fibre cable has a lot more than Glass in it though. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1422250 | 2016-06-23 04:45:00 | The fibre is glass, the stuff that encloses it is a mix of materials. Fair Go didn't say anything we don't already know. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1422251 | 2016-06-23 04:49:00 | I don't watch TV, what did fair go have to say? Fibre cable has a lot more than Glass in it though. C'mon dug !, try TV 1 on demand, you can't expect us oldies to remember verbatim, but the bloke interviewed recommended the top speed for pricing value. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1422252 | 2016-06-23 05:16:00 | We just had the guy from spark ( again) trying to upsell us to fibre, I asked why would we change when we are getting faster with Vodafone cable at a lower price along with all the other items in our plan ?? The cable we have is capable of 300Mbps, seen it in action ( impressed) . They just dont have the plans available (yet) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1422253 | 2016-06-23 05:29:00 | Watched it on my phone, said nothing of any real relevance as far as I could see. Actually one of their least helpful stories I've seen. Summarises basically to if you use a lot of internet get a faster plan with no cap. But then fibre is something I've worked with since the 80's so maybe that makes me less impressed. They really don't explain the differences between the different technologies at all. Yeah that's funny Wainui, fibre could theoretically be faster than that but not with the current setup and plans being offered. The thing I like about fibre is once it's in the ground the technology on the ends of it can continue to be improved and can scale much better than copper can. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1422254 | 2016-06-23 06:19:00 | Yeah that's funny Wainui, fibre could theoretically be faster than that but not with the current setup and plans being offered. The thing I like about fibre is once it's in the ground the technology on the ends of it can continue to be improved and can scale much better than copper can. That got me curious :D -- Yes you're spot on, its capable of A LOT LOT more, its only the equipment at the ends that is restricting. == COST $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ After doing a bit of googling, its capable & tested at 1.05 Pbit/s ( Petabits ) Which in a conversion is 125000000 Megabytes (per sec) petabits_megabytes_per_second (www.checkyourmath.com) :eek::eek::waughh::waughh: So to download the latest blockbuster Movie (legally of course) you couldn't even blink it would be "here" Edited: interesting article HERE (www.fastmetrics.com) along with links and statements ( USA based) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1422255 | 2016-06-23 07:46:00 | Yeah I didn't know it had been tested that fast but I do know STM-4 and then STM-16 over fibre has been fairly common in the telecommunications field for many years, not sure how long but maybe as far back as the 90's. STM-4 = 622.080 Mbit/s STM-16 = 2,488.320 Mbit/s (~2.5 Gbit/s). A bit more recently Gb and 10Gb ethernet speeds are commonly transmitted over fibre and can travel a lot farther than home broadband signals do. Heck back in my Trainee days we were installing 140 and 565 Mbps systems using fibre. The difference of course is that was dedicated point to point symmetrical telephone traffic. The internet is a much different beast. Typically a single fibre from the Host exchange is connected to a 16 way splitter at the local cabinet (essentially a prism and a passive device) so it feeds up to 16 households. That means if you all sign up for 100Mbps and were all using it at once the fibre might be doing up to 1.6Gbps total downstream and up to 320 Mbps upstream. Even though fibre is relatively cheap compared to copper they don't dedicate one to each house like it used to be with copper. All the same we are nowhere near the speed limits of fibre with current technology. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1422256 | 2016-06-23 20:21:00 | fibre could theoretically be faster than that but not with the current setup and plans being offered. . It's one of the things that has put me off bothering. It's like ADSL when Telecom first bought that out - limited speeds.... |
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