Phil Thompson @herdwick ?
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Phil Thompson posted a new activity comment 1 year ago
Has it’s own exchange, BT Wholesale and Talk Talk equipment http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/LCBMO
so within town should get ~6M downstream from BT based providers or more from Talk Talk ADSL2+
In reply to - darryl francis posted an update Can anyone comment on broadband availability and speed in Brampton? Or point me to somewhere I can find this out. I’m considering moving there (from elsewhere in Cumbria) but can’t […] · View -
Phil Thompson posted an update in the group Miscellany: 1 year, 1 month ago
can’t reply Charles, but intermittency on ADSL can result from changes in the electronic noise environment - plugging in a phone extension lead can trigger a retrain of the modem which will break the internet connectivity for a few seconds. Similarly outside interference like a dodgy street light or extra RF when the sun sets can do the…[Read more]
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Phil Thompson joined the group Miscellany 1 year, 1 month ago
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Phil Thompson posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago
http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/products/industryforums/superfastfibreaccess/downloads/Main%20Slide%20set%20NGA%20forum%2030-09-2009%20slides%20final.pdf - has a slide showing BT brownfield FTTP concept with overhead fibre from telegraph poles, for info
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Phil Thompson posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago
I can get you a really slow speed result Mark, what value would you like ?
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post Your views please 1 year, 1 month ago
no cause to withdraw, there is much to be argued for in terms of the benefits of getting faster than 20M services ie “superfast” as defined by BDUK. It’s worth pointing out that this will be at least double the typical currently available speed, and that the upload speed of 2 - 10Mbits/s is at [...]
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Phil Thompson posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago
I think a duct in the ground is an asset, a duct on the back of a lorry is just supplies
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post Your views please 1 year, 1 month ago
fixed rate ADSL and Cable services also have to be described as “up to” to reflect contention and the fact that the internet may not deliver your line speed’s capacity.
Fibre optic services will also be up to, as the bottleneck is moved elsewhere but there’s always a bottleneck.
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post Your views please 1 year, 1 month ago
the simple analogy is too simplistic, unfortunately. You aren’t buying a commodity by volume or weight, you’re buying a service with defined characteristics. You have probably contracted for a variable rate ADSL service that has a link speed of up to 8128k as measured at the ATM level - which means a speed test result [...]
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Phil Thompson posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago
Carlisle were on yesterday’s BT list of Phase 8 fibre to the cabinet / VDSL exchanges with a 2012 date. Penrith is the other Cumbrian exchange already in the list with March 2012 next to it. http://www.openreach-communications.co.uk/superfast/where-and-when/default.htm
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post ‘Accessible Cumbria’ - 7th September 2011 1 year, 1 month ago
you may want to ask Apple to repair their browser
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post Your views please 1 year, 1 month ago
2 miles of telephone line should give you about 4M download, but sometimes you can be 2 miles away from the exchange in a straight line and have 3.5 miles of line. Your home wiring and phone type appliances can have an influence too. It’s helpful if people state what ISP and package they’re on, [...]
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post ‘Accessible Cumbria’ - 7th September 2011 1 year, 1 month ago
The link above is to just one seller of the stuff. NextGenUs gave me a price for overhead fibre connection per property. BT did overhead fibre in Wales a couple of years ago, Virgin Media announced a trial and have also deployed fibre over power lines to customers in another pilot. Vtesse also installed their [...]
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post ‘Accessible Cumbria’ - 7th September 2011 1 year, 1 month ago
Overhead fibre is widely used in Japan and USA (Verizon FIOS etc), answer was incorrect.
See https://www.afltele.com/products/fiber_optic_cable/adss_cable/Aerial-Drop-Cable.html
Google OPGW for use of optical fibres on HV electrical transmission lines strung from pylons too.
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Phil Thompson posted an update: 1 year, 1 month ago
Tendering bundles of infrastructure or capital goods with services or finance can lead to the wrong outcome. http://www.cresc.ac.uk/publications/knowing-what-to-do-how-not-to-build-trains
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Phil Thompson commented on the blog post Your views please 1 year, 2 months ago
Maryport has a choice of wholesale provider so you can get more than 8M if you’re close enough to the exchange via Sky or TalkTalk.
Lower prices from the likes of Plusnet as it’s a “Market 3″ exchange with competition.
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Phil Thompson posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago
The whole BDUK initiative has two strands - a) get everyone up to at least 2 Mbits/s and b) get as much ”superfast” coverage as possible, ideally by bringing superfast to the <2M places. So if you currently get 16M you have to hope you fall into strand b)
In reply to - Anne Nichols wrote a new blog post: Cumbria County Council shortlists 3 to bring faster broadband to county Cumbria County Council has short-listed three major companies to bring super-fast internet connection to […] · View -
Phil Thompson posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago
” speeds of up to at least two megabytes ”
Sigh.
In reply to - Anne Nichols wrote a new blog post: Cumbria County Council shortlists 3 to bring faster broadband to county Cumbria County Council has short-listed three major companies to bring super-fast internet connection to […] · View -
Phil Thompson posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago
It is a big deal if you build a wholesale only model and don’t attract retailers that the public has heard of. SYDR only connects up users via retailers, so the project fails if the retailers aren’t attractive to the consumer. Plusnet’s ”Broadband from Yorkshire”, for example, isn’t available via South Yorkshire Digital Region.
In reply to - Dave Whitehead posted an update: Listen to Guardian’s Tech Weekly, they had an interesting piece on future broadband, interview was abit one side with BT constantly refering to themselves as if they’re the only […] · View -
Phil Thompson posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago
speedtester.bt.com shows your BRAS profile and picks up the current connection speed, post results here for comment.
I believe you will have been moved from BT kit to Cable & Wireless, your symptoms are similar to customers of Demon Internet who were similarly upgraded when C&W installed kit in the exchange (but if speedtester works you’ll prove…[Read more]
In reply to - Robert Giles posted an update: Have battled BT for 10 months in order to obtain a viable Broadband service and just this week, for the second time we have received an email which says the problem is not the fault […] · View - Load More
