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Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds by simonbarker87 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:59PM (#17135739)
It’s definitley fibre and we get a stable 100Mbit connection all the time.
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Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds by diet_soda_kills on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:48PM (#17138125)
Sorry, but it's definitely not fibre. I know they told you it is, but it isn't. They're using the old cable TV network. It's a coaxial protocol called DOCSIS.

Like BT, Virgin Media is fibre to the cabinet and then copper for the last mile. It's just that the coaxial copper and the DOCSIS protocol used by Virgin do a better job at speed than the twisted pair copper and the VDSL protocol used by BT.

It's going to be very interesting to see how they advertise real fibre to the public when it arrives, if even on Hacker News there's confusion about it.

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