BT laying high-speed fibre in copper areas

This all seems a bit backward. Surely BT could propose to fibre you up if you were willing to pay for it?

I don't want 100mb down, I'd like a synchronous 10mb connection to work from home more often and avoid the hassle of a commute. Is that really so much to ask?

By bubbles16 on 1 Oct 2009

Work Connections

Bubbles,

Have you looked into the availability of WiMax? Here in Kent we have VFast/Orbital offering a 10mb synchronous connection (on a 10:1 contention ratio) for £36.99 a month. I'm going to be getting it soon due to needing decent VPN connection that isn't affected by my housemates' usage, Be doing upgrades, students coming back after vacation, engineers cutting through phone lines, etc.

If you're willing to fork out for fibre, WiMac could be a cheaper option if it's available in your area.

By bioreit on 1 Oct 2009

Whoops

'Wimac' = WiMax.

Freudian slip? :-)

By bioreit on 1 Oct 2009

No tax payer's monwy, I hope.

Once again BT is showing that it truly is a commercial company rather than the state operator that it used to be.

By this I mean that it's looking to its bottom line, rather than to the needs of the British people, by rolling out expensive network solutions in areas already covered by broadband, while other areas languish with little or no coverage at all.

If the British government was really serious about so-called broadband Britain then it should deny BT the permits that it needs to dig up the streets to lay cable in areas with good to moderate copper coverage unless it does more to supply broadband to uncovered areas.

The British government and people also needs to take their collective heads out from the sand and admit that UK broadband would be a lot better if the lines weren't clogged up with spam and illegally shared files.

For at least the next 5-10 years many people in Britain are going to have to make do with slower contention based connections until the infrastructure around them can be upgraded and the pitiful 50:1 contention that many people have to live with will go a lot further if you're not sharing it with greasy college kids downloading gigs worth of pirate movies.

By Perfectblue97 on 2 Oct 2009