UK cable broadband internet speeds 'faster than fibre'
Posted: 04 Oct 2014, 12:32Oh dear & I am just considering fibre optic when it arrives at the end of this year!!
Internet connections in cable broadband homes are faster on average than those using fibre, Ofcom research suggests.
Average cable speeds were measured at 43.3 megabits per second (Mbps), compared with 42 Mbps for fibre.
This was partly because many cable customers had upgraded to a faster service, the regulator said.
The most common type of broadband ran at 7.4 Mbps, however, and Ofcom found a big difference remained in the average speeds in cities and rural areas.
But it said the difference was narrowing - in rural areas, average speeds were now about 13.6 Mbps, compared with 22.9 Mbps in suburban areas and 33.4 Mbps in cities.
In Ofcom's nomenclature "cable" means ISP Virgin Media and "fibre" refers to the other big domestic ISPs it samples when drawing up statistics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29475570
Internet connections in cable broadband homes are faster on average than those using fibre, Ofcom research suggests.
Average cable speeds were measured at 43.3 megabits per second (Mbps), compared with 42 Mbps for fibre.
This was partly because many cable customers had upgraded to a faster service, the regulator said.
The most common type of broadband ran at 7.4 Mbps, however, and Ofcom found a big difference remained in the average speeds in cities and rural areas.
But it said the difference was narrowing - in rural areas, average speeds were now about 13.6 Mbps, compared with 22.9 Mbps in suburban areas and 33.4 Mbps in cities.
In Ofcom's nomenclature "cable" means ISP Virgin Media and "fibre" refers to the other big domestic ISPs it samples when drawing up statistics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29475570