Broad band for a complete and utter thicko

[darrenba]

I currently have BT (FTTC) via a pole but Virgin have also just installed fibre ducting throughout the whole street.

[gas4you]

BT have several areas that are FTTH, but most are experimental I think, giving up to 1Gb

[steviejoiner74]

I only say you can't have fibre because a BT bloke told me you can't because the infra structure is not there, they would need to take out all the copper cables just to install fibre, and that would cost a fortune, but he also said his mate (Another BT bloke) lives in MK and they don't have telegraph poles, but ducting, so its easy to pull the cable out and pull in a fibre optic one, which his mate has.

So I guess if its a new build estate then yes ducting for fibre cable easy, but for those of us with poles, no chance, and I can't see virgin pulling out all the cables they have put in already to change them to fibre.

About 20 years ago telewest(virgin now) had a massive project installing fibre throughout Scotland and in fife where I stay. Thousands of miles of streets were dug up doing this enabling fibre direct to your house.

[Someone-Else]

They did it all over the country, well they sub contracted it out, but they still installed cables, not fibre.
Broadband itself came out in around 2000, it would also seem (on wikapedia, so it must be true)

[DIY_Johnny]

all still lower than mine.

Don't you mean higher?

I wonder does my phone line in my house need to be replaced

Why?

BB can be slowed down via poor / bad connections, it would do no harm if you checked them all (see if any are loose) You could if you wanted run a new cable from where the phone line comes in, direct to you router and put a socket on the end and plug it in.

Sorry yes (higher) Will have a look at the connections. something wrong somewhere. This line comes to the master socket and then to the router so a simple set up. I wired it behind the faceplate. Will have a look. I daresay the connections are fine and sky are just not fulfilling their end of the bargain.

[steviejoiner74]

They did it all over the country, well they sub contracted it out, but they still installed cables, not fibre.
Broadband itself came out in around 2000, it would also seem (on wikapedia, so it must be true)

It was defo fibre optic cables laid in my region circa 1998-99.

[Someone-Else]

They did it all over the country, well they sub contracted it out, but they still installed cables, not fibre.
Broadband itself came out in around 2000, it would also seem (on wikapedia, so it must be true)

It was defo fibre optic cables laid in my region circa 1998-99.

I am not saying you are wrong, I am saying you are not quite right.

They laid fibre cable to the cabinets, but not to the houses, for that like most it is copper cable.

Taken from wikapedia
"In 2011, BT began offering 100Mbit/s FTTP broadband in Milton Keynes.[42] The service in 2014 operates to speeds in excess of 300Mbit/s.

Virgin Media stated that 13 million UK homes are covered by their optical fibre broadband network, and that by the end of 2012 would be able to offer 100Mb broadband. There are currently over 100 towns in the UK that have access to this service.[43]"

Virgin media could not have offered fibre broadband in the year 2000 for several reasons
1) It wasn't available
2) and only by the end of 2012 could they offer a fast speed to a lot of homes. (To me that says it must have come available in 2012 at the earliest, or why not an earlier date)
3) Virgin media is only 11 years old so it did not exist in the year 2000. Then it was your local cable company that didn't have buckets of money like Mr Branson does.

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FTTP means Fibre To The Premises

FTTC means Fibre To The Cabinet

FWIW we had cable TV back in 1994 but it was a copper cable into our house (My Other Half reminded me that I moved it from where it came in to else where in the house)

[BSM-Williams]

Well, we pressed the button today and signed up for 12months unlimited fibre with plusnet.
What that means for me is absolutely nothing changes in the house, cables wise. We do get a newer router to plug in behind the curtains in the front room and will still have no wifi in the back half of the house or upstairs.

I have two options here, shift the router and extend the master socket to the under stairs position or buy a wifi extender.

I can not have any form of data over power cables setups, so its shift or extend.

Can someone explain in small words what to look for in a router wifi extender system please

[DIY_Johnny]

Well, we pressed the button today and signed up for 12months unlimited fibre with plusnet.
What that means for me is absolutely nothing changes in the house, cables wise. We do get a newer router to plug in behind the curtains in the front room and will still have no wifi in the back half of the house or upstairs.

I have two options here, shift the router and extend the master socket to the under stairs position or buy a wifi extender.

I can not have any form of data over power cables setups, so its shift or extend.

Can someone explain in small words what to look for in a router wifi extender system please

I'd just buy a Wifi Extender. Its simply a matter of plugging it in, pressing a few buttons (so it know which Wifi to extend) and job done.

If your wifi is called ABCDE then you will see another one called ABCDE_Ext when you try to connect. You can connect to it using the same password as the original.

Only disadvantage is that the data speed from an Wifi Extender will be slower, but given you have bought fast broadband, it probably won't make much of a noticeable difference. Don't go too cheap on a Wifi Extender or the speed could be half

[wine~o]

Well, we pressed the button today and signed up for 12months unlimited fibre with plusnet.
What that means for me is absolutely nothing changes in the house, cables wise. We do get a newer router to plug in behind the curtains in the front room and will still have no wifi in the back half of the house or upstairs.

I have two options here, shift the router and extend the master socket to the under stairs position or buy a wifi extender.

I can not have any form of data over power cables setups, so its shift or extend.

Can someone explain in small words what to look for in a router wifi extender system please

You should notice a good difference in speed.

and if you move your router from behind the curtain you may find that you get better wi-fi throughout the house.

[steviejoiner74]

The biggest difference speedwise I noticed on my broadband was plugging the router into the main bt socket that came into my house instead of one of the extensions.

[DIY_Johnny]

Also don't leave routers near rads etc, it can interfere with signal