Hi there, the place I'm renting next year with 6 flatmates (we go to uni together, Abertay) is having fibre installed for free by fibrecity. But I am completely unsure as to how well it will perform, when compared to something like Be Pro (what the hell have they done to their website!). I know the line to the property can handle speeds in excess of 100Mb/s (probably limited by the router's lan speed) down but I have no idea if the (currently unnanounced) available ISPs are even bothering to provide anywhere near that, I heard from some Americans that they paid over $4000 to have a line installed but the ISPs are only giving about 4Mb/s down and 480Kb/s up - what!
I am aware that it depends on which LLU services they will install (Virgin will probably get in there with their crummy 50Mb/s down)
The other issue is the fair user policy - there are going to be 7 heavy internet users on this line, if the policy isn't very unrestricted then we are going to be annihalated by our limited choice of ISP.
Well, anyway. Does anyone reading this have FTTH in Britain? And what is it like?
I suppose I missed the biggest benifit though; lower latencies - gotta love them latencies.
I am aware that it depends on which LLU services they will install (Virgin will probably get in there with their crummy 50Mb/s down)
The other issue is the fair user policy - there are going to be 7 heavy internet users on this line, if the policy isn't very unrestricted then we are going to be annihalated by our limited choice of ISP.
Well, anyway. Does anyone reading this have FTTH in Britain? And what is it like?
I suppose I missed the biggest benifit though; lower latencies - gotta love them latencies.