fibre

naf123

I cant understand how the internet/broadband cable network works! Where does the cable goes to?

If I live in a street of 100 homes and get every neighbor to agree to fund the installation of our own private superfast fibre internet, which then we can use ourselves for free- can it work? Where will the cable need to go to?

Just I can't understand why the internet is in the hands of a very few companies...

23n1th

Where to begin? In short could it work probably if you had a lot of money to run basically your own ISP, maintain the equipment and gain access to the backbone network.

robmar0se

Got £37000? Have a read here it has been done!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8619114.stm

Notmyrealname

23n1th wrote: »

Where to begin? In short could it work probably if you had a lot of money to run basically your own ISP, maintain the equipment and gain access to the backbone network.

Please please stop posting until you have an understanding of the subject you're posting about.

You don't need to be able to do any of the above.

23n1th

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Please please stop posting until you have an understanding of the subject you're posting about.

You don't need to be able to do any of the above.

Ok enlighten me... go ahead...

Or is this your usual game, where you keep posting rubbish until your proven wrong, at which point you stop posting for fear of looking even more silly?

patman99

The cable goes to the nearest exchange where the data gets routed back-out to hop from exchange to exchange until it reaches the one your ISP has their server connected too. At that point it goes back out and into the wild where it travels around the world looking for the server that holds the data you are trying to access.
At this point, the requested data does a reverse trip back to your PC.

F/O is not cheap and needs maintaining. A typical backbone will run at 100G/b of which your ISP will rent probably around 10G/b (or even less). Each packet of data is charged to the carrier (BT/Virgin) who then charge the ISP (not in Virgin's case, as they are the ISP as well, but they do have to pay BT for the data shipped across BTs network). The ISP then charges you.

You could build your own superfast fully-open F/O network, but your would need your own servers (notice I said 'Servers' rather than 'Server' as you need a back-up server, email server, webspace server, DHCP server, Domain name server and at least one standby server in case one of the others fails). You could even break with tradition and use something other than 'www' at the front of your URL addresses.

As a group of residents, you would be running a high-speed unrestricted service, but with no content. You would need to provide at least one connection to the WWW in order to access such things as Google, home banking etc. (unless you think you can grow it big-enough to persuade big corporations to join your network).

The big question has to be "Why build your own network?" (unless your street is really a terrorist training centre).

naf123

Thanks all for your responses etc.

Just that I was thinking it is probably a method to get practically free super fast broadband with free phone calls and free line rental if you have your own network? Currently people probably pay £10 per month for line rental. Thats £120 a year. thats £12K a year blown on line rental between 100 homes. Just thought maybe setting up a small cable network would bring savings every year.....

but then as patman99 says its probably not worth the hassle!