OT Slow radio downloads was Re: Slow radio downloads

[Dave Liquorice]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:47:26 -0600, artisticforge . wrote:

> to get 60Mbps you have either fibre or coax. not going to get 60mbps
> over plain old copper twisted pair.

er VDSL is delivered over an ordinary copper pair, it's only Fibre to the 
cabinet. VDSL2 "up to 76 Mbps" ought to deliver > 60 Mbps out to about 500 m 
line length from the cabinet.

Don't fall BT's marketing of "fibre optic broadband" it's not. If it was 
they'd be offering 100 Mbps symmetrical as a basic service with options up 
to 1 Gbps or higher.

I can see that the huge amount of our money being given to BT to install 
FTTC is going to backfire in a few years. The technology just isn't up to 
providing two or three proper, as in equal to DSAT or better Bluray data 
rate, HD TV streams. Think of a family kids up stairs streaming stuff 
parents down stairs...

> I have a microwave link and I am happy with the 6Mbps .
> I do not stream video. no nexflix. no youtube.

6 Mbps is good enough for those but the data they consume might be a problem 
if you have a data allowance. The 2.5 ish Mbps iPlayer "HD" downloads 
consume 1+ GB/hour. "HD" in quotes as HD really needs 10 Mbps to look good, 
Bluray mentioned earlier runs at 40 Mbps.

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Cheers
Dave.