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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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The VM network backbone is fibre, but that terminates at you local ring (A&B Cabinet I think its called). The remaining network for upto 1500 houses is copper.... Damn, I can't believe I remember this stuff from when I started as an installer in 1998.
