Dilemma of changing ISP

[Deano]

Not to be picky, but I'm pretty sure Virgin's underlying IP network is separate from BT's Fibre (which all other providers except Virgin piggyback on).

Also, attenuation doesn't seem to affect fibre as much as it with ADSL et al. I used to get 10mb/s out of a possible 40mb/s on ADSL2 but the same line gave me the full 40mbps on fibre. The fibre in my new house is at 40mbps too. Hard to tell what you're going to get though!

[Deano]

Sky fibre would have been a no brainer for me but it isn't available in this area yet

And I can't get virgin in mine which is a pain

[Sean]

IP network yes but virgin and bt both bypass through each others network like taking a shortcut to get somewere. As for the attenuation what you said deano my bad havnt looked into that much maybe should done more research on there fibre


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[Sean]

And I can't get virgin in mine which is a pain

Same here am with sky ha


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[Deano]

IP network yes but virgin and bt both bypass through each others network like taking a shortcut to get somewere. As for the attenuation what you said deano my bad havnt looked into that much maybe should done more research on there fibre


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Aye at least it's guaranteed with virgin, never quite sure with the copper phone lines.

[Sean]

True mate


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[tommy]

Plus the pikeys are constantly digging the copper up! Down time.

[Sean]

Plus the pikeys are constantly digging the copper up! Down time.

No they pikeys feel the need to get there spare van parts from mine


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[ValeTudoGuy]

Not to be picky, but I'm pretty sure Virgin's underlying IP network is separate from BT's Fibre (which all other providers except Virgin piggyback on).

Also, attenuation doesn't seem to affect fibre as much as it with ADSL et al. I used to get 10mb/s out of a possible 40mb/s on ADSL2 but the same line gave me the full 40mbps on fibre. The fibre in my new house is at 40mbps too. Hard to tell what you're going to get though!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your right.... I remember the hoohar the government made when they found out that the BT infinity network was subcontracted to be built and is administered by Huwai who are a branch of the Chinese military.

I think they pretty much said it completely undermines the security of the UK infrastructure. Lol

[panda23]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your right.... I remember the hoohar the government made when they found out that the BT infinity network was subcontracted to be built and is administered by Huwai who are a branch of the Chinese military.

I think they pretty much said it completely undermines the security of the UK infrastructure. Lol

BT infinity uses both Huawei and ECI hardware with the Chinese stuff being a lot better quality than the Israeli made ECI kit

[tommy]

That is scary shit. I'm shutting done my internet forever. Good bye brothe.................