Subject: [LINK] Considering Fibre to the Home

[George Bray]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> I agree broadly with Stewart Fist's points...  chiefly this one:
> > Upgrading the last-100 can also be done progressively-on-demand if you use
> > FTTC-nodes as an interim stage. Not everyone needs (or wants) to swap over
> > to FTTH at the same time.  It is best done in stages.

Yes, I was rather impressed with that.

How capable is the existing copper on distances to the exchange, and
distances to these FTTC-Nodes? How fast can existing rusty copper go
to the home when only 100m?

>From memory, my TransACT here in Canberra is Fibre to a Node that then
serves 300 homes up to 300m away on (new) VDSL copper. The kit is
capable of 36 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up.

Presumably modern long range ethernet can do this easily.

George