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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> Why do you assume I am using ADSL?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTTB
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> Even if I did use ADSL(2+), I would still be able to get 24 Mbps.
I assumed it wouldn't be FTTB or ADSL2+ because, as far as I'm aware,
nobody has actually deployed these technologies yet. I've read about
companies who say they're *going* to do it someday, but I'm not aware of
anywhere that has actually *done* so yet.
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> I assumed it wouldn't be FTTB or ADSL2+ because, as far as I'm aware,
> nobody has actually deployed these technologies yet. I've read about
> companies who say they're *going* to do it someday, but I'm not aware of
> anywhere that has actually *done* so yet.
ADSL2+ is available pretty much everywhere here in Germany. If I paid 10
euro more per month I could have 16 Mbit/s instead of 8. Also if I lived
about 5 km closer to Munich I could get VDSL2 which is 50 Mbit/s :-D
It seems some companies are using ADSL2+ in the UK in limited areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL2%2B#United_Kingdom
In some UK places you can also get internet via cable (I had this while I
lived in Oxford). Last time I checked you could get 10 Mbit/s that way,
probably higher now.
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>> I assumed it wouldn't be FTTB or ADSL2+ because, as far as I'm aware,
>> nobody has actually deployed these technologies yet. I've read about
>> companies who say they're *going* to do it someday, but I'm not aware
>> of anywhere that has actually *done* so yet.
>
> ADSL2+ is available pretty much everywhere here in Germany. If I paid
> 10 euro more per month I could have 16 Mbit/s instead of 8. Also if I
> lived about 5 km closer to Munich I could get VDSL2 which is 50 Mbit/s :-D
50 Mbit/sec... That's just trippy.
If they ever do replace all the copper with fiber, access to the
Internet should get a lot faster. (I always thought it was silly that I
was accessing the Internet using an infrastructure designed for narrow
bandwidth voice coms, but hey...) Don't hold your breath for that
anytime soon.
> It seems some companies are using ADSL2+ in the UK in limited areas:
It says which companies, doesn't seem to say where. Presumably only
inside London at the moment.
> In some UK places you can also get internet via cable (I had this while
> I lived in Oxford). Last time I checked you could get 10 Mbit/s that
> way, probably higher now.
I've only seen one person who had this, and she was on 2 Mbit/sec.
Still, one person isn't a large sample size, and it was a while ago now.
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:32:49 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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> I assumed it wouldn't be FTTB or ADSL2+ because, as far as I'm aware,
> nobody has actually deployed these technologies yet.
As usual, you assume incorrectly.
> I've read about companies who say they're *going* to do it someday, but
> I'm not aware of anywhere that has actually *done* so yet.
You need to read more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.5#Deployment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_by_country
--
FE
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>> I've read about companies who say they're *going* to do it someday,
>> but I'm not aware of anywhere that has actually *done* so yet.
>
> You need to read more.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.5#Deployment
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_by_country
...so it's just a case of the UK being behind the rest of the world then?
(Also, notice how Fibercity is being trialled in Bournemouth,
*Northampton* and Dundee. Not Milton Keynes, but Northampton. God only
knows why everything happens in Northampton, not Milton Keynes...)
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Invisible wrote:
> significantly faster than any possible broadband connection.
http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Invisible wrote:
> God only knows why everything happens in Northampton, not Milton Keynes...)
They know you live there, and they don't like *you*.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Invisible escreveu:
> A single-layer DVD apparently holds about 4.7 GB of data. So ten of them
> would hold about 47 GB.
>
> That means that if I burn 10 DVDs and mail them to somebody, and it
> takes 2 days for them to arrive, I have just achieved an average data
> transfer rate of about 1 GB/hour. (About 0.2 MB/sec.)
>
> But hey, why burn 10 DVDs when you can just buy a cheap HD and mail
> that? (I'm guessing at this point the weight starts to become
> takes 2 days for that to turn up, that's around 23 Mbit/sec -
> significantly faster than any possible broadband connection.
the problem is that packet loss is not as cheap as with networked data...
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Darren New escreveu:
> Invisible wrote:
>> God only knows why everything happens in Northampton, not Milton
>> Keynes...)
>
> They know you live there, and they don't like *you*.
LOL
that's obviously impossible! :D
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>> significantly faster than any possible broadband connection.
>
> http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
Now that's what I'm talking about... :-D
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