cabel broadband in galway

Yavvy

can someone help me understand why cable broadband isnt available in Galway ? whats sooo difficult about making the NTL network broadband capable ? I thought it was just matter of changing the switches at the POP's and installing a cable modem ?


is someone could even direct me to a site at explains how cable tv works I would appriciate it

Thanks

ARGINITE

as far as i know thats all they have to do, but ntl are a "little" slow in rolling it out!

GerardKeating

Alany wrote:

can someone help me understand why cable broadband isnt available in Galway ? whats sooo difficult about making the NTL network broadband capable ? I thought it was just matter of changing the switches at the POP's and installing a cable modem ?

The Cable Network in Galway has been BB-Ready for several years now.

But the roll out does cost money and untill this year, they did not have the money required.

Also, they had a bandwidth problem. The pipe which connects the Galway network to the rest of the NTL world did not have any spare capacity..

Marcopolo85

:eek: Not quite that easy. For cable broadband to become functional a Universal Broadband Router must be installed in the Headend; Reverse Fibre optic cables connected at each Fibre Node (to transfer the upstream back to the headend UBR). Every network amplifier has to have a reverse amplifier module installed (to take the upstream traffic back from the cable modem in the home - this is usually transported in the 5 - 30 MHz band).

So as you can see, it's not a simple operation. However, when it is up and running, I'm told it functions extremely well and the transfer rates ARE what is claimed (unlike ADSL).

Hope that clears it up!

thund3rbird_

ntl investing EUR100M in broadband


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