what are the best isps with fibre optic

Deals_2

cabling? and would you recommend getting a supplier of this rather than others? are there big price differences? thanks in advance

NBE

I believe the only commercial ISP that provides broadband via fibre optic cable is Virgin media. BT are trialing the technology but only in a select few locations. Unfortunatly this restricts the options and you will have to be in a cable area in order to receive the service. If you click here you can see the various broadband services that they provide.

Hope this helps

samhale

Yeah I think it's just Virgin Media with their 50mbit/6.25mb service.

crumpetman

but Virgin do not do fibre to your home (as far as I know) it is just to the pit which will be somewhere outside in the street and then it is regular coax type cabling to your house.

I think the whole fibre optic thing is a bit of a marketing ploy. Have a look at this:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3391-asa-rules-on-virgin-fibre-optic-broadband-claims.html

oneandonlyboy

The whole marketing ploy is very true, i cant see in the near future fibre connections within the home. 95% of all fibre to fibre connections happen within data centres.
1gb copper connections are still popular within data centres too.

So i do believe it will be a long time before we see fibre in our homes.

Woby_Tide

oneandonlyboy wrote: »

The whole marketing ploy is very true, i cant see in the near future fibre connections within the home. 95% of all fibre to fibre connections happen within data centres.
1gb copper connections are still popular within data centres too.

So i do believe it will be a long time before we see fibre in our homes.

http://www.fibrecity.eu/fibrecity-england.htm

Fibre connections to the home are starting. Whether the pilot homes will get fibre within the homes aswell as a 'showhome' remains to be seen

oneandonlyboy

I have seen that before, i just find it hard to get my head round their idea thats all.
The reason for that is say that an average street has 100 houses, you would need 2 x 96 cores plus 1x8 core fibre. Thats on the understanding that none of the fibre is damaged in the future which would need more fibre running in.

They would then have to splice the main fibre to run 2 cores into each house. If using in sewers you would need armoured fibre as rats can chew non-armoured fibre pretty quickly(they chew thru our fibre about every 6 months).

At each joint if they dont put them in a "bomb"(protective housing)there is a good chance that the fibre could get damaged.

I still believe that for the time fibre will be run to a street cab and then over copper or coaxial to the home.

DatabaseError

@oneandonlyboy..

I think you're about right, but I'd hope that, in the not too distant future (3-5 years?), customers will have the option to part/full finance fibre from the cab to the socket, maybe at a fixed fee regardless of distance (to a point) similar to the current BT line installs. I'm sure many people, like myself, wouldn't mind paying a one off fee of £150-£250 to have the opportunity of more bandwidth/speed

oneandonlyboy

I think your right databaseError.

I think companies will have fibre to street cables and then give an option to users to have a fibre to their homes, in the same way as you can get a BT point to point link in business which will be a higher cost but if people feel they need that sort of speed they can buy it.

Woby_Tide

oneandonlyboy wrote: »

I still believe that for the time fibre will be run to a street cab and then over copper or coaxial to the home.

1. Q: How is it installed?
A: The fibre cable is to be laid via Bournemouth's sewer network. The fibre will then be brought up from the manhole and into a fibre enclosure. It is from this fibre enclosure that a Micro Trench will be dug to each property. The fibre will then be taken to the front of the building where a small box (about the size of an A5 piece of paper) will be fixed to the outside wall. No work will be carried out inside the home.

So it does go up to the house but not internally

DatabaseError

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