Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy

aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless it was laid in the 1950s, in which case it’s probably aluminium wire rather than copper.

  There’s an area like that between the local exchange and my house, which meant internet speeds were like living in a time capsule before FTTC came along. Always 25% of what the rest of the town had.

  But other than edge cases like mine, I agree. Copper lasts a long time with minimal things to go wrong. Modern solutions like FTTC require their own power, air conditioning, etc.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought the aluminium was fine conductivity wise, the problem is that it oxidises and becomes brittle.

    Every time a BT man went into the box, it was russian roulette as to whose internet would get broken.

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