Don't laugh... Fibre vs. Wireless

mattyprice4004

'me wanting no blinking copper wire over the road into the house.'

Unfortunately that won't change, how else will the signal reach your home? Fibre terminates at those green boxes you see at the side of the road, then uses the copper line to your house. You still need line rental too.

VisionMan

The way it works is fibre to the cabinet and then copper to the home.

Nilrem

If you go with the homeplug option to spread the BB around the house, you can set it up so you have

Incoming connection with it's router (and wireless)
Connected to a homeplug via a wired port on the router.

Then at the other end of the house
Homeplug connected to a second router running as an access point (most have that option), or a wireless access point - Some homeplugs do actually have a wirelss access point built in to make this job even simpler.

That would give you the best of both wired and wireless worlds, as the homeplugs should retain a decent speed (probably not as good as dedicated networking cable, but at least 50mb+* depending on the models), whilst not needing you to run new cabling.

Basically you'd end up with a wired connection at the incoming router, and a wireless network from your main router, with a second one connected via the homeplugs.


*I got that sort of speed with an older 200mbit homeplug setup for the unit that was sat in a garage (so a run of something like 100-150 foot of wiring passing through a pair of fuse boxes and an RCD).

DigForVictory

You know, if fibre doesn't come to my doorstep, but through the washing line strung by BT, then all I can do is see if home plug eases the bits of wire from hall to sitting room.
Drat.
I had *such* hopes for fibre.
If I were to dig a trench, I presume they still wouldn't oblige?

VisionMan

DigForVictory wrote: »

You know, if fibre doesn't come to my doorstep, but through the washing line strung by BT, then all I can do is see if home plug eases the bits of wire from hall to sitting room.
Drat.
I had *such* hopes for fibre.
If I were to dig a trench, I presume they still wouldn't oblige?

Well if you wanted to pay fifteen hundred quid for the privilege you could. I'm on fibre to the cab and then copper to the home. And I get 54Mbps. And even though I use BT's internet TV services is still more than adequate for all my family's needs.

DigForVictory

That would be a "Heck, No" then. Ah well, the lads goggle fine with Freeview & when "Mum, it's S-l-o-w!" is next heard, I can blame it on BT.
My inner torrenting toddler is stamping a little foot. My money saving mummy is planning to pay a sight less for broadband...
Thank you all!