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It doesn't seem to differentiate between FTTC and FTTP fibre which has dramatic differences (74mbit vs gigabit), and most of the UK is still currently stuck wit
by BuildTheRobots 6y ago
It doesn't seem to differentiate between FTTC and FTTP fibre which has dramatic differences (74mbit vs gigabit), and most of the UK is still currently stuck with FTTC.
- tomalpha 6y agoOne of my pet peeves is Fibre To The Cabinet being marketed as Fibre. Yes there's a fibre optic cable in there somewhere, and it terminates a bit closer to my home than old fashioned DSL, but it's still fundementally DSL. It's just a slightly shorter length of copper wire.
- samoa42 6y agoindeed hilarious. then again there would be practically no fibre penetration without this "hack" ;-)
- NullPrefix 6y agoIf you install fibre between your computer and your router, which connects through dial-up, does it counts as fibre internet? Demarcation line might come into play, so you could sell that fibre to your neighbour and market it to him as proper fibre, since it's all that he's seeing
- samoa42 6y agoexactly :-D
- hadrien01 6y agoIn the UK you call that Fibre Broadband, but it's just VDSL2. It's classified as DSL in most countries.
- globular-toast 6y agoMuch of the UK is still stuck with copper. Until quite recently some (Milton Keynes) were stuck with aluminium! Thatcher's legacy...