On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:11:42 +0100, chunkyoldcortina
wrote:

Anthony R. Gold wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 07:02:03 -0700 (PDT), Del wrote:

I have been with Sky from day one but enough is enough.
After reading this I'm off to Virgin Media.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/0...of-sky-sports/

Good luck. I went with FreeSat and the Humax Foxsat HDR. But I also have an
appointment for a Virgin Media fibre broadband hook-up in around a week just
to see if it really can deliver 50Mbps.

I don't understand these claims from Virgin. Broadband delivered over your
phone line is also Fibre-optic within the exchange.

When you get Virgin's "fibre optic" broadband, they don't give you a fibre
connection, it's still co-ax.

So they are both "Fibre Optic Broadband" to some extend, but neither is Fibre
to the home.


FTTC is fibre to the PCP (street cabinet0 and from there to your house
it's a copper pair

FTTH is as it says, fibre to your home, with no use of copper

Virgin is fibre to the cabinet and then co-ax to the home (I'm
assuming they use the co-ax component of the cable for both broadband
and TV, if not then they will be using the copper pair(s) that is part
of the cable make-up)
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Cheers

Peter

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