Why do we need Fibre to our Homes?
Why is Truespeed a big thing for Saltford and why do we need Fibre to our Homes? Broadband Usage in the Home We are getting closer to having TrueSpeed in Saltford. In the village we have both BT's ADSL2 service and Virgin Media up to 350Mb/s. BT's ADSL service will give up to 74Mb/s down and 18Mb/s upload. Virgin's 350Mb/s will also give you approximately 20Mb/s upload. Straight away there are a few problems here. While most traffic is download your upload is becoming more and more important with technology and social change. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, if you are sharing your broadband with a number of people in your home that upload speed can decrease dramatically as it's shared between multiple users. For example; in our house, we have five active users plus a few passive users (work machines and devices which use the net). When we download a video stream there is also a...