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Suffering fools, so you don't have to.
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My Satellite Setup
A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
My Location
UK
May as well start a new business if he is selling his milk at less than production costs
 
Smart fella, shame about the newspaper though... :-rofl2
 
Well done to him! UK's broadband speeds are ... well, bad. And have been since the inception of broadband. Back in 1999, we were still struggling along on 56k, or, if you were lucky, ISDN connections, whereas in Sweden, you had 10Mbit connections for very little money.

And now, almost every developed country in the world has better connectivity than a "prosperous" UK. Pah...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33957559
 
I like how the fella says "fibre" when in reality, it's "Fibre to the Cabinet" he's talking about which uses DSL for the "last mile", so it's not true Fibre to the Premises, I'm using the FTTC via Plusnet myself, yes it's nice and fast, but the unreliability of the wires between the modem and the cabinet have knocked it off a few times, so, "rolling out fibre" is still reliant on cabling that was installed when the GPO ran the telephone lines...
 
Well, that's why it's called FTTC and not FTTP. Though, the latter is available in some select areas of the UK (it's always "select" areas - i.e. where I don't live).
 
And speaking of FTTP/FTTC malarkey, is Vermin FTTP then? I used to have a coax cable coming into the property, so it's not ALL the way to the property but possibly very near by?
 
Captain Jack said:
And speaking of FTTP/FTTC malarkey, is Vermin FTTP then?
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Nah, they're also FTTC, with copper being used on the last mile, their latest TV ads boasted their "DOCSIS3" cable being superior to twisted air (and for those in the know, DOCSIS is not the cable, it's the protocol, so depicting a cable for boasting about a protocol is rubbish!!), it is true that coaxial cable is better for data transmission, but it's still fibre to a point but metal wiring the rest of the way...

When we had their services back in lancashire, we got the letters saying they were bringing fibre to the area, and I never saw a single fibre cable installed anywhere, just pre-existing Nynex/Cable & Wireless cables that were poked through people's walls 20 odd years ago...
 
It's a neat setup the guy has done but I'd worry about those black boxes getting rather hot in the sun unless he's got some kind of ventilation fitted. Also, surely the newspaper got it wrong pointing to the battery on top? Wouldn't he have put the receiving/transmitting gear at the highest point and the heavy batteries at the lowest point?

Since he's running fibre to the house why not run an extra cable to carry power back to the unit and avoid the potential solar panels and battery issues (eg. not enough charge in bad winter days and having to replace the battery when it wears out).
 
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