Will KC Fiber Improve ADSL?

[lubuntu]

Just wondering what will happen to ADSL as KC roll out the fibre coverage?  Will those that stay on ADSL see an improved service in that fewer people will be using it and so you will get more of it to yourself?  Or will the tech support for ADSL fall off as tech support increases for fibre?  Afterall, I get 18mb DL so lets say I am quite happy to stay on this yet everyone "down my street" connects to the new fibre - is KC gonna keep on putting the resources into ADSL just to support me?!

Is it the case that ADSL is truly dead and do we need ADSL anyway if fibre is available? (Although I could see ADSL being a good backup system for businesses.)

Certainly there is no denying the benefits of fibre but is ADSL the new (or old) ISDN?!

[Hígh Treason]

If KC offered me fibre, I wouldn't be hanging around on ADSL. Chances are, that you could see improvement with things such as latency, unless priority was given to fibre users - which would be likely. Once fibre is available to all KC areas, I suspect the support for ADSL will be similar to the support that the older ADSL packages have at the present time.

[el-ahrairah]

To add to this premise, I was wondering if by effectively shortening the length from exchange to the cabinets, would this improve the connection for those who aren't necessarily on the fibre routes but close to!

[MickyByte]

Kingston Communications' ADSL service would not show any significant speed increase aside from during peak hours when congestion starts to accrue on their network. Remember we have to take into account that the speed determined on digital subscriber line technology currently is based upon both sound to noise ratio and attenuation as factors. As work is already underway to provide fiber to each exchange (and cabinet hopefully) this will eliminate any local bottle necks in-which may be noticeable to customers. As for the amount of bandwidth provided in comparison to before speeds' shall only stay consistent apposed to improve for those who wish to stay on the current service that are available. Of coarse this is heavily dependent on whether or not both upper network layers have also been improved during this time.

The key word heres is consistency, ADSL service shall certainly improve in terms of consistency as I can only imagine speed to not falter due to lack of bandwidth available.

[David]

Just wondering what will happen to ADSL as KC roll out the fibre coverage?  Will those that stay on ADSL see an improved service in that fewer people will be using it and so you will get more of it to yourself?  Or will the tech support for ADSL fall off as tech support increases for fibre?  Afterall, I get 18mb DL so lets say I am quite happy to stay on this yet everyone "down my street" connects to the new fibre - is KC gonna keep on putting the resources into ADSL just to support me?!

Is it the case that ADSL is truly dead and do we need ADSL anyway if fibre is available? (Although I could see ADSL being a good backup system for businesses.)

Certainly there is no denying the benefits of fibre but is ADSL the new (or old) ISDN?!

Does KC still support dial-up?

[Hígh Treason]

There is still a dial-up service, you can use your Karoo user name and password to get online with it, I've used it before when the ADSL connection had failed.

However, I don't believe there is any real support for it, I suspect they might support you with it if your ADSL connection went down.

[David]

There is still a dial-up service, you can use your Karoo user name and password to get online with it, I've used it before when the ADSL connection had failed.

However, I don't believe there is any real support for it, I suspect they might support you with it if your ADSL connection went down.

I was referring to the old ancient dial up services

Karoo AnyTime (unmetered)
Karoo HomeTime (unmetered after 4:30pm)
Karoo FreeTime (unmetered after 7pm)

Karoo NetTime (metered)

[lubuntu]

I know someone who was using the dial up service last year un-metered - but I think you was kicked off after 60 mins and had to reconnect again? Could be wrong - but as far I was aware that person must have been the last in Hull using it!  No way can you keep you PC up-to-date these days with an old modem dial up! One large Windows update and then an anti-virus update and you are stuffed.  Never mind the old Adobe update (and forget about ITunes).

[The Snowman]

Hats off to KC for putting in fibre, I think it's a good move.

I think it'll be similar to what BT offers, around 40meg. I've been theres a lot of fibre already in the KC network.