Would You Pay £1500 To Get Fibre Internet?

[matthew.brough]

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/super-fastfibreaccessbriefings/super-fastfibreaccessbriefingsarticles/nga03112.do

 

Now 1/2 UK homes can get FTTC service of up to 80/20mb broadband the next stage of binning copper completely to get a complete fiber optic link is being trialled. Soon for £1500 you will be able to get fibre straight to your home and speeds of >300Mb.

 

It seems such a lot of money for a home internet connection but I would be one of those that would buy it when it becomes available. Does the fact that it is even available show that for some a fast and reliable internet connection has become a way of life or that some people really have more money than sense and should just make do with a xDSL/FTTC connection?

 

I remember just 12 short years ago getting 1/2Mb ADSL thinking it was amazing speed and wondering what I would ever do with all that bandwidth. Now, at times my 38Mb down 12mb up FTTC link seems somewhat average.

 

How times change.

 

[reidy]

You need to lay off the porn

[matthew.brough]

You need to lay off the porn

Bet you could get some very high def porn streaming down a 300mb pipe.

[james.wilson]

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/super-fastfibreaccessbriefings/super-fastfibreaccessbriefingsarticles/nga03112.do

 

Now 1/2 UK homes can get FTTC service of up to 80/20mb broadband the next stage of binning copper completely to get a complete fiber optic link is being trialled. Soon for £1500 you will be able to get fibre straight to your home and speeds of >300Mb.

 

It seems such a lot of money for a home internet connection but I would be one of those that would buy it when it becomes available. Does the fact that it is even available show that for some a fast and reliable internet connection has become a way of life or that some people really have more money than sense and should just make do with a xDSL/FTTC connection?

 

I remember just 12 short years ago getting 1/2Mb ADSL thinking it was amazing speed and wondering what I would ever do with all that bandwidth. Now, at times my 38Mb down 12mb up FTTC link seems somewhat average.

 

How times change.

How much use would it actually be though. The home user would have a faster downstream than most providers of content upload. For instance when I move tsi it will only be to such that the provider has 1Gb and that is for all servers in the centre.

A lot of our own LAN at work is still 100 meg only 3 machines have 1 gig. And even that does not achieve full theoretical speed.

For now imo anything over 100 meg is overkill for anything but serious use.

At home I get 2 meg ish down, .8 up, at work I get 18 down, 1 up. At mum and dads I get 40 down and 10 up.

[matthew.brough]

I remember when the up to 8mb / 1mb was released asking the very same question. What an earth could anyone do with so much bandwidth. Not just Internet connectivity, remember getting a 1tb hard drive and a pc with 12gb RAM.

I couldn't give you an honest answer about what on earth i could do with the extra bandwidth but the same could be said for when i was contemplating ADSL from dial up. It was about £150 install and £50 a month which was ever so expensive in 2000 and at the time and I couldn't think of anything that I could do with it.

If you look at the changes in the past 10 years it genuinely fascinates me to see where we will be in another 10.

[datadiffusion]

We've just had a 'warning' from BT that we've used 32GB of our 40GB.... Good old Infinity - gawd knows how I clocked that up!

 

But no, I wouldn't pay £1500.

 

Is this 'internet only' and additional to your PSTN or a total replacement c/w UPS batteries and POTs adaptors? The link doesn't

make it that clear, but assuming it is if its anything like the last trial I saw.

[matthew.brough]

Didn't know BT had usage caps on it. I'd be cut off very quickly. Average traffic on my FTTC circuit per month is about 800gb

[datadiffusion]

That really is an awful lot of jazz programmes!

[norman]

I have BT infinity? Runs @ 35-38m and it's fine for me.

[matthew.brough]

That really is an awful lot of jazz programmes!

Nothing so exciting I'm afraid. Mrs Matt is so anti porn you'd think she was related to Mary Whitehouse.

Mixture of traffic, the big bandwidth users are the web server that I put a lot of retro stuff on like the computer magazines and replication traffic where I test out new versions of VMware, veeam and Microsoft cloud stuff before putting it into production use.