In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

BT has made a very wise decision not to go past FTTC right now.

Thereby ensuring that the people who really need improvements to their broadband speed can't get them, whilst delivering a faster service to people who mostly don't want it.

Anyone who 'really needs' a particular speed can get it. BT (other providers are available) will install a fibre based Ethernet socket in the Gb/s range any where you want it for a price. What's that you say - you can't afford £10k for an installation? Well then - I guess your need isn't that strong after all

Edited by Andrue (Tue 11-Mar-14 15:45:40)

It isn't always as cheap as £10K. The company I work for had a quote at one point of £350K for installing a fibre service due to distance from exchange and the amount of trench work that was needed. Oddly we decided against it.

In reply to a post by ian72:

It isn't always as cheap as £10K. The company I work for had a quote at one point of £350K for installing a fibre service due to distance from exchange and the amount of trench work that was needed. Oddly we decided against it.

Was that very remote? I oversaw the installation of fibre to a converted barn in a village outside Bicester:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&g...

Install cost (including all the routers) was just over £12k if I remember correctly. It used existing ducting and was classified as a brownfield site which helped keep the cable cost down (I think that part was a flat £1,000 in the end) but I remember when we were talking to the company installing it that BT said there'd be no charge for trench work anyway because they considered it an expansion of their local loop. Of course knowing BT it's possible they said that to look good knowing full well it was irrelevant

Edited by Andrue (Tue 11-Mar-14 15:51:26)

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html Files that are also on a 10 Gbps server and we have people getting over 500 Mbps from the testers

But feel free to support a French service rather than home grown facilities

In reply to a post by ian72:

I've got a machine with 2 128GB SSDs in RAID 5 - they are really quick, totally pointless but it seemed like a fun thing to do when I was doing my last home build. Alas, no gigabit Internet connection to see what it would do...

You mean RAID 0 there, right?

Andrue,

If you don't mind me asking, what was the distance involved?

He must do 'cos RAID 5 need at least 3 drives.

In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

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AFIAK they use 10gigabit fibre from the building to the next node.
....

That must be pricey! I'd like to know what their network looks like, I know they have good financial backing but they must be losing a fair bit of money at present.

In reply to a post by fiddler:

Andrue,

If you don't mind me asking, what was the distance involved?

The distance from the exchange is 4.5km but there are FTTC cabinets right on the outskirts of Bicester so only 3km if they can patch into those. However it was curious that BT quoted for blowing from the cabinet.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Given that there's no FTTC for that village (or certainly wasn't back then) I'm not sure why they did that. I wouldn't think there was already fibre to that cab so perhaps that's just what they consider the edge of their network in that area. A further complication was that there was already some old fibre providing one unit with an ISDN service but BT told us they couldn't use that.

But ultimately their costings said we were a brownfield site so there was a fixed fee of £1,000.

Our supplier installed distribution kits and cables were laid connecting each unit to the network kit.

Edited by Andrue (Tue 11-Mar-14 19:42:08)

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html

there is no 10 GB test file to test?

Edited by adslmax (Tue 11-Mar-14 19:44:42)