Comments on: Speedy and cheap UK broadband through sewers

By: Maingi

Maingi — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:39:05 +0000

gud ideas.

By: OMG

OMG — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:04:46 +0000

I wish my country had that kind of connection
we only have a 2Mbit and a 4Mbit and we do not have it cheep the 2Mbit is 20€ and the 4Mbit is 30€ and we have a limit of 100GB a month. so u guy’s be glad of what u have

By: indianpunk

indianpunk — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:45:31 +0000

get ready for some smelly internet experience

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:50:27 +0000

But there are questions about its usage in a domestic environment, such as how do you get the cable from the sewer into the house. Would you, for instance, do it via the toilet? There are also questions about leakage

ROFL

By: JoeTF

JoeTF — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:08:56 +0000

Rats arenot a problem, cables with rat poision in their cladding are standard for several years now.

The only reason why everyone and their mother is not doing it for decade is that fiber have only one enemy – water. They’re incredibly resistant to everything else (you could hang yourself on one, that’s how stress resistant they are), all it takes is one drop of water on unshielded fiber and it’s dead Jimmy.
Might take them for hours to deploy damn thing, but I bet they will laying new fiber every few months or so, as compared to never which is how frequently normal IPS have to relay their fiber.

Also, single fiber can have a bandwith of around 500GB/s, it’s all function of equipemnt you plug into it (chained 10Gb/s TDM over 50 DWDM links in this case).

By: xBullitt

xBullitt — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:32:51 +0000

Almost enough reason to move to england

By: kebrus

kebrus — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:24:57 +0000

idea for the next rlslog poll:

“what’s your download limit?”
1. lesser than 512 Kbits
2. 512 Kbits to 1 Mbits
3. 1 to 4 Mbits
4. 4 to 10 Mbits
5. 10 to 25 Mbits
6. higher than 25 Mbits

By: hjj

hjj — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:43:20 +0000

the net’s definitely become a sewer that’s for sure, lol…yuck…

By: jonnyBoy

jonnyBoy — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:57:07 +0000

I’m moving to Sweden. I hate the US.

I’d love it if Verizon would offer FiOS in my area, but they can’t because the government won’t give them access right to the (already laid, and finished) fiber optic cable lines.

I was there when they put the things in, so I know we have the ability- right now Comcast and AT&T have a serious monoply going for Cable and DSL lines.

Comcast you get 6Mbit connection for $45 a month if you have their TV service also, $55 if you don’t.

AT&T you can get 768 DSL for $45 a month.

Thats it; sucks doesn’t it?

By: miles

miles — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:08:27 +0000

over here = uk

By: miles

miles — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:07:53 +0000

@43, your work pays for your healthcare in America, well, my dads work pays for mine over here, and i can remain a lazy student living in luxury… here is better

By: Antmar

Antmar — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:44:36 +0000

In the swedish event named dreamhack there was a broadband line in 40/gbsec say what UK

By: Mr.Smizler

Mr.Smizler — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:34:25 +0000

@16 Artemus

“There’s no truly unlimited non-cable broadband in the UK for a decent price anymore.”

Erm well what about sky max? It’s what I use after I left Virgin. Up to 16Mb Unlimited (well 250 Gb) for £10 a month. Virgin Up to 20Mb (more like 5) Unlimited (very limited)for £37. Now which would you go for?

By: nonamo

nonamo — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:52:49 +0000

They wont do it anytime soon… the reason they arent upgrading connections in the UK is because the telecoms companys are making too much money from copper connections… It would cost them alot of money to install fibre, but they wouldnt get any decent return from it. They want to stick to ripping ppl off.

By: Ditikos

Ditikos — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:43:20 +0000

Wasn’t this the april fools prank from google?