Bethere broadband

[N!ck]

Yeah, just thought I would post it, didn't know if you had seen it

Verizon (which I believe has ties to Vodafone in the UK) has began a new nationwide Fiber-Optic installation to provide us with Fiber-Optic internet.

Verizion FiOS.

Yeah they've been setting that up for a while now, like a year or something. In the UK the only widespread fiber optic provider is Virgin Media which has fibres down most of the residential streets in the UK. They connect you too the fiber in the street via coaxial cable i think. Max package they do is 20Mbps, but some people are beta testing 50Mbps packages.

[Dentafrice]

Yeah they've been setting that up for a while now, like a year or something. In the UK the only widespread fiber optic provider is Virgin Media which has fibres down most of the residential streets in the UK. They connect you too the fiber in the street via coaxial cable i think. Max package they do is 20Mbps, but some people are beta testing 50Mbps packages.

Really?

Wouldn't coaxial cable downgrade it? Due to it not being able to handle that much load, it is just a solid piece of copper cable wrapped in insulation.

Well, depending on the schedule of wire it is.

Verizon FiOS brings the fiber optic under your yard, up into your huse where they install the box with battery backup, and then downgrade it to a phone line

[N!ck]

Really?

Wouldn't coaxial cable downgrade it? Due to it not being able to handle that much load, it is just a solid piece of copper cable wrapped in insulation.

Well, depending on the schedule of wire it is.

Verizon FiOS brings the fiber optic under your yard, up into your huse where they install the box with battery backup, and then downgrade it to a phone line

Yeah, copper coaxial from your house to the street, which is why Verizon is a lot better. A good provider in the UK is ASK4 www.ask4.com but it is only available in specific apartments. They're using fibers in the sewers to get the connection about rather than digging up the streets like Virgin Media have to do.

[Dentafrice]

Yeah, copper coaxial from your house to the street, which is why Verizon is a lot better. A good provider in the UK is ASK4 www.ask4.com but it is only available in specific apartments. They're using fibers in the sewers to get the connection about rather than digging up the streets like Virgin Media have to do.

Most of the USA, except big cities, is grass along the sides of the road, which they run the cable down, or just run them along the telephone line.

Most cities in the USA don't have sewers, except big cities, we have sewer pipes, but nothing you can walk in, and we have septic tanks.

[darkchicken101]

I have BE and it's really not that amazing. You have to live less than a mile from the exchange to really take advantage of their high speeds. I live just over a mile and I only get a 1/3 of what I should. Still, there aren't many websites where you could take advantage of that. Truely umlimted downloads are a big plus though. However, the upload speed is about right. (150KB/s)

[:job2]

I cant get it in my area my local exchange is quite far away as well 1.7 miles

[Flisker]

I guess mine is the closest? And O2/BE are planning to get a connection where i am So I can get VERY good speeds

[iUnknown]

Can we get back on topic please :rolleyes: I just found this and I'm looking into new broadbands too. I considered this but I've been recommended many times to go with well-known ones. Bethere looks really good though, but apparantly too good to be true.

[Firehorse]

I'm told that Be* Broadband isn't as good as it used to be. It got taken over by a company, think it was O2

[Robbie]

Where can I find out how far I am from the exchange? SamKnows only seems to tell me which exchange I'm on (which I already knew, MROLD)