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Originally Posted by Rob
All cable supplied broadband, unless you are in a very odd area, is fibre-optic to the street cabinet and then copper for the last few metres to your house. A number of speeds are thus available, depending on the price you want to pay, 2meg, 10 meg and 20 meg. In theory you should get close to the speed you order due to the fibre optic to street cabinet setup, unlike the phone line based ADSL where the speed drops the further you are from exchange.
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Not quite, it's fibre optic to somewhere in your neighbourhood but very few people have fibre to their own street cabinets.
Doesn't make a major difference. Distance doesn't affect cable speeds, however the amount of people that share a single piece of fibre can. If too many people share fibre speeds can be harmed.