studio7consultants
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Not true, we have Fibre to the House and almost all do in the city and surrounding area a few still have the copper for ADSL in the meantime or haven't made the move over, (and everyone for the phone line but that's due to be deprecated at some point, I assume for VoIP)legrandefromage":igqn1ct9 said:Ignoring the spam above, every UK internet company other than Virgin will be using Open Reach-around to provide their network unless they have physically dug up the ground themselves.
Their cabinets are inside BT telephone exchanges. They are charged by BT/ Open Reach for power and space. These cabinets are standard 19 inch racks with the servers stacked up. There are no real independent companies unless they are very small and use their own network either via microwave or satellite or their own fibre.
Virgin came from NTL which came from multiple independents that dug up the country in the early 1990's laying down a fibre network. Those cabled areas have a huge advantage over BT networks as they have been fibre-to-the-door for nearly a quarter of a century.
Until fibre was sent to our 'local' exchange, we were getting around 1.2meg at best, years behind those barely 3 miles away where fibre had been laid years ago who were getting 30+ as long ago as 2011.
You cant escape BT or Open Reach unless you gave a fibre-to-the-door network.
FluffyChicken":1hfdstst said:Not true, we have Fibre to the House and almost all do in the city and surrounding area a few still have the copper for ADSL in the meantime or haven't made the move over, (and everyone for the phone line but that's due to be deprecated at some point, I assume for VoIP)legrandefromage":1hfdstst said:Ignoring the spam above, every UK internet company other than Virgin will be using Open Reach-around to provide their network unless they have physically dug up the ground themselves.
Their cabinets are inside BT telephone exchanges. They are charged by BT/ Open Reach for power and space. These cabinets are standard 19 inch racks with the servers stacked up. There are no real independent companies unless they are very small and use their own network either via microwave or satellite or their own fibre.
Virgin came from NTL which came from multiple independents that dug up the country in the early 1990's laying down a fibre network. Those cabled areas have a huge advantage over BT networks as they have been fibre-to-the-door for nearly a quarter of a century.
Until fibre was sent to our 'local' exchange, we were getting around 1.2meg at best, years behind those barely 3 miles away where fibre had been laid years ago who were getting 30+ as long ago as 2011.
You cant escape BT or Open Reach unless you gave a fibre-to-the-door network.
Not BT, nor Vigin.
Not cheap either.
Only other alternative here is Mobile Internet or one of the few Wireless providers.
(Note EE is BT too so avoid them if you go mobile internet ;-) as are anyone that uses EE as their lines)
Utterly vile company.
xerxes":2p9cmpku said:Utterly vile company.
Thank heavens they don't provide health care, oh, wait a minute.