Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds
by rndmio on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:50AM
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As the other commenter said the move from ADSL to "fibre" meant that rather than being copper from your house to the exchange it's now copper from your house to the cabinet on a street nearby (hopefully) and fibre from there back to the exchange. The "last mile" of copper is now a lot, lot, shorter which is how they're able to run the faster speeds over it. Sure FTTC is not FTTP but it's dramatic improvement over ADSL/2
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Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds
by dingaling on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:08AM
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Absolutely, FTTC for us made using high-throughout Internet services feasible. We're not far from an exchange but the copper overhead cables pass several RF-noisy facilities and ADSL was constantly dropping-out. Even Andrews & Arnold couldn't do anything to improve it and we changed ISP after they lost interest ( no point paying their hefty charges for a flakey service ).
With the change to FTTC all that interference is gone and dropouts are very rare. FTTH doesn't really tempt us for any reasons.