Originally Posted by BrookeBond:
“Hi there!
I know, that the fibre optic cable will be fitted so that there should be faster broadband speeds. Will BT / Openreach be fitting the fibre optic cable up to the property and into where the router is? ”
depends on various things. you'll be stuck on copper wire for the foreseeable future. bt are doing 1 of 2 things
1. fibre to the cabinet - with improvements in existing technology to increase bandwidth
2. fibre to the home - which is what you are ideally after.
what "flavour" you'll get depends on population density (ie. expected that highly populated areas may go fibre first) and ability to instal fibre (some places it may not be possible).
Originally Posted by BrookeBond:
“If Virgin Media can have super fast speeds then surely BT line users should be able to. Can anyone from BT / Openreach kindly comment? Thank you.
Brooke Bond”
yeah - i get what you mean. why can't bt broadband have the same bandwidth... simple reason is that bt put lines in the ground a long time back and continued to use the same type of technology until recently. cable on the other hand went optic as it was required for carrying telly pictures (someone correct me if i am wrong on that bit ???) and can benefit from spare capacity on the optic cables.
long and short of it is, cable is benefiting from the technology they put in the ground when BT was (by law) not allowed to be a broadcaster. since there was no requirement for bandwidth over the last few decades bt stuck with copper.
bt's announcements to change can't happen over night and will need time to dig up the entire country and replace everything. if you get fibre tothe home then expect speeds on a par with cable. they reckon fibre to the cabinet will still use copper for the final few hundred metres but you'll possibly get upwards of 50meg.
if you search for bt adsl2 on google etc you can find out more info. looks like 50% of the country will get upgraded to adsl2 in the next 6months. chances are you'll be able to get "up to" 24meg. that's really defendant on what speeds you get just now.
ie. chances are if you get 4meg, you might get ~ 12meg.
i am hopeful for about 20meg.

either way, i'm a bt broadband user just now and still delighted when i see downloads regularly above 700k per second.