Don't know your local situation but your _exchange_ surely is linked by
fibre(s).
What BT/Openreach are widely rolling out is FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet)
with copper for the final link to the premises (running VDSL IIRC). You'll
get a new street cabinet alongside the old one and they'll switch
subscribers as they sign-up. I was connected last month and now have
40Mb/s downstream and 10Mb/s upstream. Only 5x better down but 10x better
up. There's another option with double those speeds but for more £ than I
wanted to pay.
Jez in rural Dorset
On 1 March 2015 at 15:49, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Scott.
>
> We are still on copper wire broadband here, but we are looking forward to
> a big increase in technology this year, although I don’t know if that
> includes fibre. If it did, it would mean fibre to the exchange and copper
> to the home. I hope that someone better informed than I will step forward
> with a clarification.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 1 Mar 2015, at 15:32, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It's become quite a bit less fraught, Chris. It's currently possible to
> buy
> > termination kits that will be adequate to purpose without require a high
> > degree of skill, as long as one is only talking of a single pair of
> fibers,
> > for example. Also, I understand that the type of fiber terminations
> > required by the new system used to deploy single strand fiber to homes
> for
> > multiplexed tv/internet type signalling (as used in Verizon's FiOS, here
> in
> > the USA) is even more forgiving.
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:24 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
>
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