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[old.Whoodoo]

Sorry, to the layman, VOIP = DATA = Travel any way Data can. This would include fibre.

For more info http://www.voipuser.org/

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

I trust you work for BT and have no clue

soz i meant ADSL .. think i said ADSL a few times in other posts.


Plz read the whole thread before making a azz of yourself

 

[Mojo]

soz i meant ADSL .. think i said ADSL a few times in other posts.
Plz read the whole thread before making a azz of yourself

I did read the whole thread, here is exactly what you said

Broadband Can't work with Fiber Optics....
only normal Copper Wire , or radio waves ( sat braodband)

trust me, i know .. cuz i also work for BT

WRONG!!

yes , that is correct, if there is fiber optic in any part of the bb then it won't work
ADSL works off of copper wire , fiberoptic has 0 copper wire in it

WRONG!!

ADSL technoligy is based on the freq that a copper wire can produce.
During traing ( i work on the BT Yahoo Broadband team) it's stated that if there is fiber optic anywhere on the circuit then ADSL can't work.
Simple as that

Assuming your circuit is from house to exchange then oke ish but were off toppic at this point as VOIP has nothing to do with ADSL Broadband rly

Me being an ass, lol good one.

WRONG WRONG WRONG (now im beaing an ass) WRONG WRONG WRONG.

 

[Mojo]

and why don't NTL just start offering 8Mb broadband ect?
They use fibre so I assume they can, they just don't because people pay like £36 for 1Mb

Afaik its fibre form the UBR's up, from the UBR's to your house it's cable, (coax infact) hence cable modem. It might even be Fibre to the box in your street these days. But certaily from that box in your street to your house it's coax. (not sure what the bandwith limitation is for coax)

Think NTL rolled out some 10mbit fibre trials in London a few years ago, not sure what came of it.

Fibre means spending money :<

 

[Job]

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.

Just means the upload isn't as fast as the download..asymmteric-not symmertrical.

Most of BT's network is still coaxial, cos fibre is very expensive.

To get an idea how out of date it is, an average local exchange has only got a 16 mb pipe back to the main processor.

That's enough for the voice traffic, but broadband would kill it.

Actually against all myths, most international voice traffic is still carried over copper wire transatlantic cables.

 

[tris-]

Afaik its fibre form the UBR's up, from the UBR's to your house it's cable, (coax infact) hence cable modem. It might even be Fibre to the box in your street these days. But certaily from that box in your street to your house it's coax. (not sure what the bandwith limitation is for coax)

Think NTL rolled out some 10mbit fibre trials in London a few years ago, not sure what came of it.

Fibre means spending money :<

my cabinet is fibre and so are couple of others around here. also my cabinet is like. 3 metres from my modem

 

[Mojo]

my cabinet is fibre and so are couple of others around here. also my cabinet is like. 3 metres from my modem

Show off

 

[soze]

I really though the reason we were so behind on IP Telephones was the fact that they had not been ratified for that long but turns out they were in 1996 so have no idea why its still quite specialist.

I also live very close to the main digital excange in my area which makes me happy as i get all the upgrades straigh away.

 

[old.Whoodoo]

The thread started out about VOIP which doesnt give a crap about your connection, ideally you could use it on dial up 56k, although that lacks the bandwidth, but in essence its possible.

ADSL, ISDN, Broadband or whatever you use, can be adapted for VOIP, its got little to do with the type of cabling, fibre or wet string used, but it does require a conection that can handle 64k packetting.