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You can get 80 meg broadband from BT Infinity with fibre to the street cabinet, so you might need to offer more than 100+. G.fast extends the fibre closer to t

by scholia 10y ago

You can get 80 meg broadband from BT Infinity with fibre to the street cabinet, so you might need to offer more than 100+. G.fast extends the fibre closer to the house but I suspect it's not very cost-effective unless the take-up is high, so perhaps it will mainly cater to rich people in suburbia. We've know that fibre (FTTH) was the answer since the 1980s but all British governments have been too short-sighted and stupid to finance it. Of course, they dug up the streets to install new pipes for the short-term benefits of North Sea gas, and they can find £50 billion for HS2, when they could have FTTH for less.

lostboys67 10y ago
And realistically no consumer needs more than that.
- razakel 10y ago
  >And realistically no consumer needs more than that. Yet. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
  - lostboys67 10y ago
    By your argument all homes and house should have a 56kv 3 phase electricity supply What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business
    - poooogles 10y ago
      >What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business 2 different people watching high definition video at a high bit rate.
      - scholia 10y ago
        Having multiple users certainly increases the need. However, my experience is that speed increases bring diminishing returns. Going from dial-up to 2Mbps ADSL was a huge jump, and ADSL2 also made a big difference. However, for a single user, there's not really that much difference between 20Mbps, 40Mpbs and 80Mbps. You have a faster connection to the exchange, but you're still limited by the speed of the net and the speed of the servers you connect to.
      - lostboys67 10y ago
        Not so sure I live in a BB nospot with a max of 3.5Mbs and we can watch 2 iPlayer streams with no problem.

by scholia 10y ago

lostboys67 10y ago

And realistically no consumer needs more than that.

razakel 10y ago
>And realistically no consumer needs more than that. Yet. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- lostboys67 10y ago
  By your argument all homes and house should have a 56kv 3 phase electricity supply What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business
  - poooogles 10y ago
    >What reasonable use has a consumer sub for more than 10-20 Mbs? if your running a business from home get a business line and stop expecting Pensioners to subsidize your business 2 different people watching high definition video at a high bit rate.
    - scholia 10y ago
      Having multiple users certainly increases the need. However, my experience is that speed increases bring diminishing returns. Going from dial-up to 2Mbps ADSL was a huge jump, and ADSL2 also made a big difference. However, for a single user, there's not really that much difference between 20Mbps, 40Mpbs and 80Mbps. You have a faster connection to the exchange, but you're still limited by the speed of the net and the speed of the servers you connect to.
    - lostboys67 10y ago
      Not so sure I live in a BB nospot with a max of 3.5Mbs and we can watch 2 iPlayer streams with no problem.