nixCraft 🐧Jun 16, 2023
Poll: What kind of Internet Connection do you have at home? Please boost for reach. TIA.
ADSL/DSL/Cable
45.8%
FTTH (Fiber)
44.5%
Mobile [4G/5G (wifi hotspot)]
8.4%
Satellite (e.g, Starlink/Viasat/HughesNet)
1.3%
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Show threadIan TindaleJun 16, 2023
@nixCraft None of those – it’s whatever BT gave me years ago after ADSL (which in turn was after Freeserve and a noise-making modem)
Show threadcn 🦇  💉💉🚀💉Jun 16, 2023
@u0421793 FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) perhaps? @nixCraft
Show threadIan TindaleJun 16, 2023
@cn @nixCraft could be that – whenever in the past they’ve fitted something like a new plastic square on the wall, they go away down the road and come back breathless and covered in spiders webs exclaiming words to the effect “that cabinet is a complete mess, it’s amazing anything works”
Show threadcn 🦇  💉💉🚀💉
@u0421793 do you have copper or aluminium wires home to cabinet? @nixCraft
Jun 16, 2023 at 1:05pmWeb
Show threadIan TindaleJun 16, 2023
@cn @nixCraft it’s like a phone lead, cream coloured, goes into the socket on the Wi-Fi router’s other box that says “broadband”
Show threadcn 🦇  💉💉🚀💉Jun 16, 2023
@u0421793 outside… 🙃