OK so FTTC is shared but each cabinet has a fibre to the exchange where as FTTN has around 4-7 street cabs with up to 90+ properties connected each sharing coaxial back to the node.....

And unlike Virgin's FTTN it is very easy to add a lot more bandwidth to the NGA's....

I love the idea of sharing 1/10GBps up and down with my Street on FTTC...

But not the idea of sharing less with my local area on network that has not been updated for sometime.

This document says it is 'multiple gigE links'. https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/super...

Yeap it is possible, but usually start with one and only add more as needed. Look at all the spare fibres in the cabinet picture I posted.

The handover link that the provider buys at the exchange is GigE too

The most i have ever downloaded in a month was 460GB and that was on 50mb and the only reason why i did so much in that month is because i had a hard disk failure and thankfully a lot of the stuff was backed up online.

I know people who download terrabytes every month and nothing is said to them.

You always install spare fibre in case one breaks or was broke during install.

So dark fibre is what some call these, others import more mystical powers as in dark fibre is the solution to Internet access around the world.

The optics that do the conversion are pretty small
https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/product/6513312052...

and 10G is same size just more costly
http://www.gbics.com/10g-xfp-lr/?gclid=CLW9xpWVvb0CF...

As with other electronics some are better than others, so buying cheapest can be a false economy when five 9's 24/7 operation is crucial.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

In reply to a post by broadband66:

" FTTC is brand new and there is no sharing from cab to exchange on FTTC "

Think you're wrong!

Okay then I apologise. Igni and others are also wrong as they say there is no contention from the cab back to the exchange per user.Or so I believe I read that on CF?

Think I said there were no indications of congestion. There is still contention, it's not 1:1 bandwidth but Openreach attempt to ensure each 40Mb subscriber has at least 15Mb available at all times and each 80Mb subscriber 30.