Fibre Optic advice & help needed

hippey

All Internet connections will suffer at peak times, your physical connection speed will / should not alter but you throughput will, my example in a previous post is my service is 100/15, so I get almost 100 down all the time but in the evening some Internet site can't get much more that 10-15Meg down other a bit more some even less.

All a higher connection speed means is that you have the ability to get a faster speed should conditions allow. I find that mine doesn't slow down now even though Mrs H is watching something on iPlayer HD and the kids are on their computers I still get a good connection speed.

There are so many factors that affect speed it's hard to narrow just one down, your ISP is also a major issue in real throughput as well.

Buzby

As noted earlier, ver few of us will have true 'fibre optic' connections - it will be a copper cable pair (xDSL) or co-axial (Virgin cable). As the old saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link - so unless you;ve got an optical cable running into your premises, you've got copper - not FO. Don.t let the marketeers try to convince you otherwise.

Sure, the closer the fibre actually IS to you, the better your connection (and VM is streets ahead of BT on this due to being a later build. I'm 400 metres aware from my nearest fibre (in a VM cabinet) but I certainly don;t call my installation a FO one, even though I have a 48Mb (on average) connection.

gino_76ph

as far as i know the BT exchange is roughly a kilometer away from my actual address.

and so far the 22-26MB that i was "promised" by TT was greatly surpassed as my daytime/off-peak speeds are 30/1.5 so far. it's just this annoying slowdowns during peak hours but i can see all your point and your take on these so i appreciate that.

i also noticed that sometimes (i.e. random times of the day) my FB stops working. what i mean is nothing works and everything just stops. so, i had to do the age old routine of turning everything off, unplugging/removing all cables to & from the router/modem to the BT socket, etc. then after a minute or so put everything back on and it starts working again. this happened twice so far in the 1 month i have with FO.

is this normal?

spike7451

Buzby wrote: »

As noted earlier, ver few of us will have true 'fibre optic' connections - it will be a copper cable pair (xDSL) or co-axial (Virgin cable). As the old saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link - so unless you;ve got an optical cable running into your premises, you've got copper - not FO. Don.t let the marketeers try to convince you otherwise.

Sure, the closer the fibre actually IS to you, the better your connection (and VM is streets ahead of BT on this due to being a later build. I'm 400 metres aware from my nearest fibre (in a VM cabinet) but I certainly don;t call my installation a FO one, even though I have a 48Mb (on average) connection.

It's copper to the VM cabinets,it's fibre to the MUX/DA which can be a up to 1/2 a mile away,but the signals are boosted from the DA to the DP then on to the E cabinets.
The connections (Tap & Ports) in the cabinet are different signal strengths so the closer the home to the cab,the lower the strength tap & port you use.

DA-Diatribution Amp-where the fibre for the TV/BB terminates & goes to copper
DP-Big VM street cabinets
E-Smaller street cabinets
MUX-Where the Fibre changes for the phone & houses the line cards & E-D Side strips.

Buzby

The difference is the DA's arer out there on the streets (as I said, mine is 400 metres away) - my E cabinet is 10metres away). BT's fibre stopped at the Exchange buildings, as these usually contained the MUX. They're now moving this out to copy the Cable Build model, 'wrapping' their MUX/DA's with an advert for BT fibre. I do hope Council's stamp this out - as (1) the neds will target them, & (2) branding their cabs in such a way avoids the planning laws on advertising hoardings.

Punters should stop talking about fibre, unless they've got it to the door - as that's the only way they';; really benefit.

diamonds

Buzby wrote: »

Punters should stop talking about fibre, unless they've got it to the door - as that's the only way they';; really benefit.

I disagree, my exchange is roughly by the way the crow flies less than a mile away, FTTC street cabinet is in the next street & I get better "fibre" than I did on Virgin Media 50 MB which run at under 30MB most the time.

Geography plays a massive part in internet speeds and such a generalisation is not accurate, Virgin Media failed me where Talk Talk Fibre ( re-sold BT Infinity ) has not.

kwikbreaks

diamonds wrote: »

Virgin Media failed me where Talk Talk Fibre ( re-sold BT Infinity ) has not.

Yet .

diamonds

^Thats rather pessimistic of you, I take your user name and recommend a kiwi break, you might come back with a less English outlook

spike7451

diamonds wrote: »

I disagree, my exchange is roughly by the way the crow flies less than a mile away, FTTC street cabinet is in the next street & I get better "fibre" than I did on Virgin Media 50 MB which run at under 30MB most the time.

Geography plays a massive part in internet speeds and such a generalisation is not accurate, Virgin Media failed me where Talk Talk Fibre ( re-sold BT Infinity ) has not.

Then the was something wrong with your VM install,maybe the wrong size drop cable for the distance run.

kwikbreaks

diamonds wrote: »

^Thats rather pessimistic of you, I take your user name and recommend a kiwi break, you might come back with a less English outlook

I've seen far far too many tales of woe about TalkTalk to be optimistic about any service they provide but as all they are doing here is reselling a BT product you could strike lucky.

Perhaps you need to read other sections of MSE such as http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/utilities/2011/09/talktalk-received-most-complaints-reveals-ofcom-data more carefully than you seem able to read user ids.