Uk To Get 100mb Broadband Soon?

[VibroAxe]

Some people may have seen bbc's coverage a few months ago about cable firm H2O who are laying fibre cables into the uk's main sewer systems to hook up buisness with a big phat pipe.

Well, it looks like the are finally going to offer a consumer service as well with either

Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee will be offered the service first

Anyway, tis an interesting article and an interesting company

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7202396.stm

 

[Noddy]

yay! no more 56K!!!! (one hopes)

 

[VibroAxe]

gonna be a while before it makes it to Kent methinks!

 

[Traxata]

BT are trialing it in Kent but no where near where we live

 

[Noddy]

yip although reading the bbc page, BT are trialling fibre connections in 600 new homes across eppsfleet (sp?)

 

[Iron_fist]

main problem i have is that the current roll out of fibre doesn't allow you to have a static IP address so yay speed, but boo i lost all my ability to easily host from home without setting up dynamic DNS, hopefully by the time it properly arrives here that'll be fixed but we'll have to wait and see how it goes

 

[Noddy]

I would have thought that once the fibre network is established and the teething troubles are ironed out, then static ips will caome back (not after too long we hope)

 

[VibroAxe]

No static IP's would cripple me, i do too much that wont run of a dynamic ip, damn windows servers

 

[Noddy]

hehe the rise and then downfall of vibs mini empire is on the horizon

 

[Taffy]

yip although reading the bbc page, BT are trialling fibre connections in 600 new homes across eppsfleet (sp?)

Ebbsfleet. Where the new Eurostar International Terminal is.

I wants this!!!! No more lag, ever!!!

 

[Noddy]

ebbsfleet, eppsfleet - same place - you know where I mean

not more lag to srtat with until games and other apps start to take advantage of the extra band width. In a few years the lag wil be back for sure...