DoogyRev Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12114736 Only have to wait a year.... hay ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Had it here for a few months now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 i tried voting for our area but apparently we're already on the roll out. but when is a nother matter, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff-r Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 We don't even have cable down our street either! Mind you, it might be one of the last road to be dug up and ruined by some telecommunications company in the UK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James B Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Already got Virgin 50Meg which is smoking fast. Brits are already waaay behiond the rest of the civilized world. Sweden has an average consumer broadband speed of 100Meg. ON AVERAGE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 seems a particularly wierd way to map out future connections if you ask me, just seems like the analyst that is meant to figure it out went on holiday. oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 seems a particularly wierd way to map out future connections if you ask me, just seems like the analyst that is meant to figure it out went on holiday. oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first because your not important enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 seems a particularly wierd way to map out future connections if you ask me, just seems like the analyst that is meant to figure it out went on holiday. oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Porn with free UK Postage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Took me till 2005 to get any form of broadband, having been on dialup since 1993. I'm 7k from the exchange and my broadband was initially 0.5 megs. BT have now upgraded the old wires and I'm now getting 3 megs. I'm lucky though my nearest neighbour has a different exchange and he only gets 0.25 megs, BT won't switch him onto my exchange because he would become an anomaly as he lives 75 metres over the boundary... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricey Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Took me till 2005 to get any form of broadband, having been on dialup since 1993. I'm 7k from the exchange and my broadband was initially 0.5 megs. BT have now upgraded the old wires and I'm now getting 3 megs. I'm lucky though my nearest neighbour has a different exchange and he only gets 0.25 megs, BT won't switch him onto my exchange because he would become an anomaly as he lives 75 metres over the boundary... Pete Come on Pete.......Buckley only got running water 3 years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 seems a particularly wierd way to map out future connections if you ask me, just seems like the analyst that is meant to figure it out went on holiday. oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Porn with free UK Postage It can just stream poor quality youtube with no buffering which is the bare minimum before i would get miffed about it. xbox works fine as does surfing the web generally. DL is a no go though i reckon. NB: the start of that sentence reads so wrong until you read it as "poor" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Took me till 2005 to get any form of broadband, having been on dialup since 1993. I'm 7k from the exchange and my broadband was initially 0.5 megs. BT have now upgraded the old wires and I'm now getting 3 megs. I'm lucky though my nearest neighbour has a different exchange and he only gets 0.25 megs, BT won't switch him onto my exchange because he would become an anomaly as he lives 75 metres over the boundary... Pete yeah the BT engineer said the wires were of terrible quality too, he was surprised i got anything actually. I would have cried if i didnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Porn links removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Just had FTTC (aka infinity but its not via BT) installed today. Syncing at 40MB down and 10MB up, although my profile is limited atm so only getting 4MB down, but getting 8MB up. Waiting for PlusNet to adjust my profile and we'll be off Also had an interesting chat with the engineer. He said that most of his work at the moment (like 95%) is doing FTTC switchover, roughly 5 a day for the past few months. Seems the product (infinity) is doing very well. I was the first to be a non-BT customer that he's done. Roll on Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) rather than to the cab, then we'll have 100MB connections and catch up most of the world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 We have the basic "up to 8mb" but no sign of ADSL2 or ADSL2+ here, so Im stuck at about 5.5mb for a while yet. I know thats probably a pipe dream for most, but its damned annoying how BT roll out their technology to exchanges. An exchange up the road which serves about 1000 more people (5000 instead of our 4000) already has the adsl2+ and is on the rollout for infinity by mid/late 2012 - whereas we havent even got a date for ADSL2, never mind anything else. Yet that area is predominantly full of households that struggle to buy food never mind high speed broadband. The mind boggles on how they decide upon their rollout. No surprise that BT have rolled out infinity to London before the rest of the country even gets ADSL2. The sooner I can get a decent LLU provider connection the better. Its the only way that BT will actually take any notice of customers that exist outside of the capital. Running a competition for semi rural exchanges to get infinity enabled while the take up in the areas that they have done automatically is less than 10% shows just how much thought they have for anything resembling an out of town exchange.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 The problem BT has is that tech changes quicker than they can implement it. They are investing a huge amount of money into uprating everything (read: billions of pounds) but as soon as they do a trail for one tech, another emerges, long before they can update everyone to the last. At least with FTTC, it can be upgraded to FTTP later as it just makes the whole chain fibre. I would expect you will see FTTC before anything else in most areas now, thats what they are putting their resources behind atm. Saying that, keep an eye on mobile networks. We had a demo on new tech at work, and mobile networks might be considerably quicker than current broadband when thats rolled out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Exactly - as soon as the new tech comes out, they can the investment in the old tech and start with the new - beginning with the city again. Which is why we have seen city exchanges move from DSL to Max DSL, ADSL2+ and now Fibre. While semi rural exchanges have in most cases not even moved past MaxDSL. (up to 8mb) It is also laughable that upgrades from MaxDSL (8mb) to ADSL2+ (24mb) has not taken place rapidly because in many cases it is just a firmware upgrade to the DSLAM and in rare ovvasions a replacement DSLAM. BT are the sole reason that the UK are miles behind any other developed (and some underdeveloped) countries in terms of our network. They give us all thick **** and bull story about it being the old copper technology holding us back, when for probably less than half what they have spent on the minority infinity connections, they could have upgraded all exchanges to ADSL2+ (24mb) some time ago. Quite how OFCOM allow BT to continue this cycle of implementing new technology in the city and ditching the national roll out of the now "old" technology is beyond me. There are also 100mb trials taking place with both Virgin and BT now too. How long before we see the infinity rollout stopped and the new 100mb started - leaving about 90% of the country on a 5mb average. I still cant believe OFCOM allowed the Market 1,2,3 exchange rules to come in. Its resulted in two tier broadband class across the whole country. If you are on a Market 3 exchange youll probably get EXACTLY the same package from your ISP provided at a much cheaper rate than if you are connected to a Market1 exchange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Saying that, keep an eye on mobile networks. We had a demo on new tech at work, and mobile networks might be considerably quicker than current broadband when thats rolled out And let me guess where they will put the masts first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 oh and speaking of connection speed my new place has .45Meg as its over 8km from the exchange on cruddy quality wire why cant they sort me out first Took me till 2005 to get any form of broadband, having been on dialup since 1993. I'm 7k from the exchange and my broadband was initially 0.5 megs. BT have now upgraded the old wires and I'm now getting 3 megs. I'm lucky though my nearest neighbour has a different exchange and he only gets 0.25 megs, BT won't switch him onto my exchange because he would become an anomaly as he lives 75 metres over the boundary... Pete yeah the BT engineer said the wires were of terrible quality too, he was surprised i got anything actually. I would have cried if i didnt Well, I know that when the wires were renewed, circa 1970, the price of copper went through the roof so they used a cheap alternative probably aluminium, most of the line was upgraded a couple of years ago so it's pretty well as good as it gets now. There's a roadmap somewhere detailing which exchanges are to be updated in the future but ours isn't among them and unfortunately I'm the furthest property from the Buckley exchange. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilp Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 luckily for me im in a virgin media area so we have fibre optic. My missus works for them which is a bigger bonus as i get highspeed for little pennies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 i think i would cry if i got fibre optic, maybe never leave the house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilp Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 lol @ husky, move bk home, fibre optics is everywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 lol @ husky, move bk home, fibre optics is everywhere nope my parents live in a hillfoot village, they have the most unreliable internet connection known to man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilp Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 lol @ husky, move bk home, fibre optics is everywhere nope my parents live in a hillfoot village, they have the most unreliable internet connection known to man lol what one? We have upto 100mb now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 lol @ husky, move bk home, fibre optics is everywhere nope my parents live in a hillfoot village, they have the most unreliable internet connection known to man lol what one? We have upto 100mb now my mate in his scummy student flat in edinburgh also has 100MB. he has an amazing interweb connection for playing COD on his tiny CRT telly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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