Generators

[Dave Liquorice]

Yes, had it for ages, before Freesat in fact. Used to use a Sky box with a Freesat from Sky card to get the FTV stuff.

There has been a wireless system in place for the last 12 years or so, that has been upgraded from 2.4 GHz WiFi based to WiMax(?) on 5 GHz. The fibre project is an upgrade to "Next Generation Access". I think the starting offer is 20 Mbps full duplex. IIRC the head end and ONTs are capable of 1 Gbps end user connections out to 10 km or so, it starts to drop off after that. However the back haul to support 1Gbps end user connections might be a bit tricky (read expensive).

[Andy Burns]

I have wondered about that, if it's active or passive, if it has something as primitive as a relay they closes without power to remove the active cabinet ..

[dennis]

Well in the POTS world they are passive and don't need any relays to bypass.

[damduck-egg]

Dads not around to ask now,I think there were grants subsidies available in the UK as part of the rural electrification programmer but I don't know if there was a cut off date for them . I was only small but remember the 11kV supply terminating in our fields some time before we got a connection. It served the neighbours about 500 yards away and eventually Dad came to an agreement and 3 poles for 240V cables were erected and we joined the network. He was wasn't daft so maybe the subsidies were about to finish . I'm actually staying there at the moment wrapping some things up and must wander up to the pole with the transformer and look at the date carved in it. 1959 ISTR. Still only serves 3 houses. We were well aware that mains was cheaper once connected, before that Dad would only run the set when it was absolutely required and the output used fully. An inconvenience for me as a child was that I could only use my train set if the genny was in use for other purposes such as lighting . From late Spring to early Autumn sunset was later than term time bedtime so for half the year I couldn't use it very often. when the mains came at least I could run it at weekends.

G.Harman

[The Natural Philosopher]

No reason not to.

[tony sayer]

Well if they do have to lay fibre especially into new ducts then yes a lot of time and money..

ISTR there were quite a few firms offering wireless on 5 Ghz distribution up that way but then again its a commercial decision for most all of them if they have a sufficient number of subs....

One of them here...

and even in the flatland's of Narfolke;!.

[Andy Champ]

So no active components in it then? I'd be interested to see the design...

Andy

[The Natural Philosopher]

well it doesn't take much to ensure that 60Khz->3Mhz broadband doesn't get smashed by a line designed to handle at best 0-6kHz.

with a 10:1 guard band, even 12db an octave is going to be 40dB rejection or more. And 18db /octave is not hard..

It will be just the same as a microfilter conceptually.

[<me9]

BT infinity was installed round here year ago. We had numerous mains outages as someone's contractor was worth what they were paid.

As it's in a virgin cable area I wonder if it was worth doing other than to try to dent virgin's profits.

However we're still awaiting Virgin's speed upgrade promised for last March. If the price rises again[1] we'll walk.

[1] Or if the service continues to slow to telephone modem speed[2] once schools finish! [2] It seems more like the DNS servers fail, or is it deliberate load shedding?

[<me9]

Is he on a cable network? Our exchange is effectively the cabinet.

[Huge]

Not in this house. We were driving to Scotland (*) on the eerily empty roads.

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[Andy Burns]

I realise Virgin do it differently, but dennis was talking about 21CN so BT. He still hasn't explained in what way a BT 21CN cabinet acts as part of the exchange to provide POTS to the home ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

I vaguely remember a Diana. Did she Di?

[Steve Firth]

Not here either. We went to Italy to ensure that we didn't see any of it. Difficult to avoid even there since Italian TV showed the funeral live and it was blaring out over the city from open windows. Fortunately our house is in the sticks and I refuse to have TV there.

[tony sayer]

Just shows what an "export" the UK royal family is;!...

[tony sayer]

In article , [e-mail] scribeth thus

What are you getting now?. We have the 30 service (could have the 60 but don't need it) and a phone line inclusive for 22 quid a month and can't complain at all about either 'tho we do use VoIP for most calls..

[John Rumm]

Why not swap to another public DNS and see? Google's seems ok. On IPs

8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

[dennis]

Yes I have, however I am not going to start at preschool levels.

[Andy Burns]

You've explained how they *could*, and I don't disagree with that, but you haven't shown that they *do*.

[Dave Liquorice]

It appears that our internet connection provider (and BT who will be providing the physical connection) don't think it's a problem to provision 100 Mbps backhaul by the end of the month... That'll be enough for a goodly number of users at 20 Mbps.

Most of those companies offer it point to point or a single user company connections rather than having a few hundred domestic end users in an area. They tend not to want to do the support required for domestic end users, not just the billing etc but the phone calls about the net running slow when it's their machine up to gunnels in malware/viri etc or the cat has pulled a cable out etc.