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Superfast fibre broadband
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There's a campaign on where I live persuading people to support a petition to make superfast fibre broadband available. I've heard that it's good but will it effect the EE (previously Orange) broadband I already have? I'm hesitating because I don't want to find myself having to sort out unexpected consequences. How has the change to super-fast broadband affected others please?
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Superfast will be superfast to everyone, no one will have slow broadband once their area is updated. I only get 1.9 mbs on a good day, a lot less at night when the net is busy. I doubt if we will get it in the foreseeable future, as there are only around 150 houses in our village, although there is a large tractor/garden machinery business across the road, not really viable for BT's profits. the cost of installation will outweigh the revenue.
If you are upgraded to fibre broadband then distance from the exchange doesn't matter.
It's a little misleading in it's name, as you don't have fibre running to your house, your local street box is connected to your local exchange by fibre and then the ADSL equipment that's normally located in the exchange (the DSLAM) is moved to the local street boxes. your normal copper phone line then connects the the local street box rather than all the way back to the exchange.
This allows much faster speeds as typically the street box will only be a few hundred meters away from your house, whereas the exchange could have been several kilometres.
Fibre will give speeds of upto abouot 40Mb/s (depending on distance to the local street box)
It's a little misleading in it's name, as you don't have fibre running to your house, your local street box is connected to your local exchange by fibre and then the ADSL equipment that's normally located in the exchange (the DSLAM) is moved to the local street boxes. your normal copper phone line then connects the the local street box rather than all the way back to the exchange.
This allows much faster speeds as typically the street box will only be a few hundred meters away from your house, whereas the exchange could have been several kilometres.
Fibre will give speeds of upto abouot 40Mb/s (depending on distance to the local street box)
"sib if you click on your internet live symbol at bottom left of screen...on mine it shows as 2 screens"
That tells you the speed your computer is connected to your router, not your internet speed.
http://speedof.me/
http://speedtest.net/
That tells you the speed your computer is connected to your router, not your internet speed.
http://speedof.me/
http://speedtest.net/
You could try here sibton http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1
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