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IS BT Infinity actual fibre optic internet or cable internet?

  • IS BT Infinity actual fibre optic internet or cable internet? Fiber-Mart.com
  • Post on Tuesday 14 November, 2017
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BT claims that Fibre Optic is available in my area.


I am switching ISPs to BT Infinity.
BT claims that their ‘Infinity’ package uses Fibre Optic technology / “Fibre Optic Internet”
They claim the up to the following speeds
 
BT Infinity –
up to 40Mb/s download
up to 10Mb/s upload
 
I’ve never seen fibre optic ‘lines’ troughout my street.
All i know is that i’ve got a cable line comming out of the ground that is not being used.
BT claims that Fibre Optic is available in my area.
My friend he has fibre optic internet and he is with bt I’ve seen the lines that go into his
house and the main cable looks alot like a coax like cable.
 
IS this fibre optic internet?
 
At the moment I am with Talk Talk, they are horrible, mainly because everything comes down my phone line, maximum speeds I get is 5Mb/s download and 0.2Mb/s upload.
 
SO DOES BT INFINITY ACTUALLY USE “FIBRE OPTIC” TECHNOLOGY or do they just claim that but still use their cable internet with upgraded technology to give users fasters speeds as quoted?
 
I have heard that if you have fibre optic internet, traffic wise it doesn’t matter because fibre optic enables as many users on one single line without losing speed.
 
On bt infinity website they have quoted I will be getting 37Mb/s download and 8Mb/s upload.
Why is this? I thought it only mattered how far you lived from the exchange if you had your
broadband comming down a phone line?
 
I probably written to much, but yeah.
 
I’d appreciate any responses, Thanks
– kambiz
 
Best reply by Lateralus:
 
Wikipedia is your friend.
 
BT Infinity is a broadband service in the United Kingdom provided by BT Retail, the consumer sales arm of the BT Group. The underlying network is fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), which uses optical fiber for all except the final few hundred metres to the consumer, and delivers download speeds of ‘up to 40Mbps’, expected to be 20 to 30Mbps in practice.[1] The upload speed of ‘up to 10Mbps’ is claimed to be the fastest in the UK.[2] The fibre terminates in a new roadside cabinet containing a DSLAM, from where the final connection to the house uses VDSL2 technology.
 
It’s basically fiber to the node, usually located within 1000ft of your house, which uses DSL technology from the node to your house, looks like what AT&T Uverse is doing in the states… It should work just as well as cable or any other broadband service, but it’s not true fiber.. nodes could possibly get overloaded as well, but I wouldn’t worry about it.
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