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<blockquote data-quote="Trident" data-source="post: 1056998" data-attributes="member: 99014">Here in the UK it’s an even more weird situation.There is already a network built, called BT (British Telecom) OpenReach. There is OpenReach socket in every house. Majority of providers just take over the so called “phone line”, they send you a router with a short ethernet cable and that’s it. None of them lets you plug your own router directly, you always have to use modem mode. Regardless who you will go for, it is the same service quality and speed, just the price is different.Majority of BT OpenReach is not upgraded to full fibre and speeds are highly unimpressive in many places — like 50MBps. The upgrade is slow because it involves a lot of permissions (you know, King owns the land…). Upgrading the last mile is even more complicated, a lot of people rent, don’t own and they don’t want holes drilled in the walls. Many don’t even know that upgrade should be performed and don’t care about it.Virgin Media has their own network but it’s similar thing, you can’t change the DNS for example and you gotta use modem mode. Virgin still uses coax cables, splitters and active amplifiers. Virgin speeds are great on download but on upload not so much.They found a way to upgrade their network to fibre without building new cabinets.Now new providers such as Community Fibre started to pick up a lot of business and these offer incredible speeds for less money and you can use any routers (like it is in Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria and Romania since 2007-2008). They use Fibre-to-premises solutions and they build the network above ground which is way easier with less drama. In few years nobody will use BT OpenReach, everyone will switch to these.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trident, post: 1056998, member: 99014"] Here in the UK it’s an even more weird situation. There is already a network built, called BT (British Telecom) OpenReach. There is OpenReach socket in every house. Majority of providers just take over the so called “phone line”, they send you a router with a short ethernet cable and that’s it. None of them lets you plug your own router directly, you always have to use modem mode. Regardless who you will go for, it is the same service quality and speed, just the price is different. Majority of BT OpenReach is not upgraded to full fibre and speeds are highly unimpressive in many places — like 50MBps. The upgrade is slow because it involves a lot of permissions (you know, King owns the land…). Upgrading the last mile is even more complicated, a lot of people rent, don’t own and they don’t want holes drilled in the walls. Many don’t even know that upgrade should be performed and don’t care about it. Virgin Media has their own network but it’s similar thing, you can’t change the DNS for example and you gotta use modem mode. Virgin still uses coax cables, splitters and active amplifiers. Virgin speeds are great on download but on upload not so much. They found a way to upgrade their network to fibre without building new cabinets. Now new providers such as Community Fibre started to pick up a lot of business and these offer incredible speeds for less money and you can use any routers (like it is in Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria and Romania since 2007-2008). They use Fibre-to-premises solutions and they build the network above ground which is way easier with less drama. In few years nobody will use BT OpenReach, everyone will switch to these. [/QUOTE]

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