How would Openreach supply 2 gigabit lines then, I wonder?

2 ONTs, 2 fibres.

In reply to a post by CarlTSpeak:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

But there is nothing stopping them splitting that single fibre going into the home by 4 (like the Splitter Node, but only split by 4) and putting them into 4 ONT's, that way its using the same single fibre.

Paul

Optical power budget. A 4-way splitter in the home will cut power by more than 75% - halving each time for the two splits then a bit of insertion loss.

It's a bad idea from the scalability point of view.

Ok, fair enough, was just a thought, TBH I never looked that much into it.

Paul

In reply to a post by CarlTSpeak:

2 ONTs, 2 fibres.

At least some of the spare fibres could be used instead of blowing more fibres.
So in our case here BT would just need to connect up one of our spare 3 fibres to the DP and a cable to one of the spare 3 fibres in our CSP, then through the wall to a new ONT.

Not that we need it, the 110Mbit upload will be fine for us here for a long time.

Paul