I want my street cabled now! :(

I really wish I could get it, since I'm stuck on a 5Mb sync on a 24Mb line. My area would have been done 10-15 years ago if the council had let them dig up the roads to lay the cables when they wanted to, but they weren't allowed to do it because there is only 1 major road access to my entire area (which is quite a large area).

So my area is never going to see fibre optic cable unless BT decide to get off their arses and start replacing the copper with fibre optic.
 
Apparently we're getting connected to the optic backbone in Cornwall by 2012. I'll just have to put up with normal BT ADSL for now. :(



*sigh*

I wish you luck though OP, internet is so flakey... What ISPs sell and what you get are two different things.
 
Parents moved into a house in 1995. Cable and Wireless (Virgin) said that the street was planned to have cable installed but didn't have an exact date. It hasn't been done yet. They were new builds. You would think it would be an easy hit to them, dropping a cable into a hole while the street is being laid. cheaper to install and probably a higher uptake if everyone is new to the street rather than people who already live there who might already have broadband.
 
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Be lucky you have a choice! Anything over 1mb is in serious Commercial territory and comes with a ludicrous price. Coming from 20mb makes me cry.

 
JCBeastie said:
Apparently we're getting connected to the optic backbone in Cornwall by 2012. I'll just have to put up with normal BT ADSL for now. :(
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See the thread in Networks sub-forum. Govt published document there highlights the fact that there are no plans for fibre in Cornwall. Not now, not by 2012, and not anything concrete after 2012.

No money in it.

Sorry by that I mean FTTC or FTTH, ie anything faster than 24mb for residential customers. I have no idea what backbone connections business clients down here have.
 
My internetz connection history is broadly:

Parents:
56k -> 128k ISDN -> 2Mb/s Satellite

Uni:
JANET uberconnection (before the days of restrictions, had your own external IP etc)

London:
Virgin 20mb -> Sky 8Mb

America:
Verizon 1Mb :-/

I think I might cry, 80k/s downloads FTL :(
 
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im in exactly the same boat, im a bit of a nerdy online gamer too, and in the last 8 months or so i cant even play online games like wow at peek times between 6pm-11pm, im in a small village which shares its exchange with another village, at peek times i get between 0.2-1meg it bounces like a yoyo.

i cant have llu or cable the exchange hasnt been upgraded to 21cn, its such a pain that i cannot play online games with my friends anymore, and i still wont be able to in the forseable future as there is no dates what so ever to upgrade.
 
You can contact the new builds team at Virgin to arrange somebody to do a survey on your street, this can take upto 6 months though - mine took 4 months.

Basically they need to find out if the project would be cost effective, Virgin Media's current business rules only allow them around £350 per home - if the suggested cable infill in your street is more than that amount then i'm afraid they will not proceed.

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We moved from a cabled area which I got 20mb (well about 17mb) to a place where I can just about get 1mb! VM haven't cabled, and I am at the extreme edge of the distance from the local exchange.

But.. at least I have a connection, 1mb or not, it still works. It even works fine on XBL so I have no complaints. Besides, 50mb would just turn me into a download freek!!
 
I know the feeling...

Where I live we are on 6.5Meg ADSL Max with Orange but we are too far out to receiving ADSL2 & Cable, we probs won't even get Cable fitted for a very long time yet. We only had broadband enabled in late 2003 and strted on 512K then in 2005 moving to 2Meg, and ADSL Max to get 6.5Meg in 2006 (well I think this was the same as everyone else in the UK?). Orange used to be really good for us up to about a year ago and then the speed used to go to like 256K in the evening and then around 3Meg in the day, even though 24/7 its always connected at 6.5Meg on the router...

Liam
 
Virgin can barely support its current infrastructure at peak times, I'd rather they increase capacity and get 50Mbps to everyone at all times - hell I'd settle for 10Mbps at all times - instead of pushing on to 100/200Mbps. Those kind of speeds are unnecessary at present.
 
Trials are currently taking place for 200mb in Coventry and Kent, VM are looking at how it affects network capacity and performance.
 
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