"Other nice info would be national vs international bandwidth. For instance some fast ISPs abroad give high speeds within the country and more limited speed internationally (for obvious costs reasons).

If large numbers of home users suddenly had gigabit connections and hammered them, even LINX would fall on its face!

Edit: They don't even seem to be on the LINX members list, I'd have expected to see them there by now as they are supposedly beginning to connect people up. "

No, you're thinking far too sensibly. You'll never get a marketing job.

Were you around when Be started up? One link from them to the outside world. No resilience, and not much capacity. Or something like that, I wish I could remember enough details to find a definitive reference.

I don't know what they are using in HE, but non-zero dispersion fibre (NZDF) is commonly available with a group index of 1.47 - enough to shave-off another millisecond across the Atlantic (or 953 microsec in this particular case, if we're picky); for low latency applications I'm seeing people pushing for 1.462 using the latest Corning glass.

Very interesting, somebody needs to invent a fibre cable that can let light pass through at closer to light speeds. If it was at true light speed we would see a link of sub 20ms from the UK to USA. That would be awesome. 60-70ms would be fine aslong as its stable for *some* games. But never for First Person Shooters, especially competitive FPS'.

Speaking of Fibre I was reading this article last night, which holds promise for "faster than light" technology in the future. The scientist is incredibly freaky looking LOL. But I won't hold that against him if he's onto something +)

http://www.livescience.com/790-light-travels-faster-...

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If it was at true light speed we would see a link of sub 20ms from the UK to USA.

We're talking about round-trip times, so ping times would be a little over 40ms compared to the current 65. A shade under 59ms is possible with current low-index fibre.

Strictly speaking, it's group index rather than simple refractive index that matters for propagation of information. Various techniques, like the one in the link you provide, can produce weird phase effects, but the speed of a wave group carrying information is still no faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, and usually slower.

Quite a few in Poplar which serves a lot of Docklands and surrounding area

Was the first Be exchange to go live

Right, I didn't factor in the return trip *doh* =)

was it really the first?? did not know that

Apparently Hyperoptic have 10 launch sites in mind of which my development is one (if we sign up)

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was it really the first?? did not know that

Apparently Hyperoptic have 10 launch sites in mind of which my development is one (if we sign up)

Do you know where they are?

Only my one (Lockes Wharf E14) - I was told when I phoned my development was one of ten. I'm not sure if all ten are firm. For example we haven't signed off yet but arent too far from doing so

Apparently if we sign off soon the install could be as early as next month...

St David's square E14 has just signed off on getting hyperoptic installed too