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Realisticly in the next few years FTTP will replace everything
I'm looking forward to that but no sign of Openreach doing anything in my bit of north London :(
jellybaby-
The plan is to turn copper off by the end of 2025. They've already done it in my neck of the woods, meaning that if I change my broadband provider, the only service on offer is FTTP. All well and good, but given that we need a landline (which will now be a 'Digital Voice' IP based landline), the only companies willing to offer us one are BT, Sky, and Vodafone, meaning there's very little in the way of competition.
When my contract comes to an end, it'll go up from £23 a month to £39 a month (broadband + landline). OK, so I'll get a 500Mb, rather than a 70Mb line, but I've got absolutely no need for the extra bandwidth. Virtually double the cost - now that's progress.
Rhodrich
With a virgin modem the cable length in the home is mostly irrelevant. The signal is 'in spec' or it's not and it's adjustable at street level to compensate for cable length. The length from one side of the room the other is nothing compared to the hundreds of metres in the street. The modem receives 1.2gb of bandwidth and restricts it down to the right speed based on the package.
What you say is definitely relevent if you use a phone line provider and I completely agree with access points etc.
Realisticly in the next few years FTTP will replace everything and you will have a box on the wall that converts the fibre to ethernet and then to access point hense why it's worthwhile putting an ethernet in at the same time.