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    Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Apparently this company is going to give us all access to 100Mbit/s broadband via the sewers!

    100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way | The Register

    Damnit, why can't you find the SewerCom logo when you need it?
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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?



    i presume NOT like this?
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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    There was a Hexus news thread about this yesterday

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Not so much up the pooper, more down the swanny.

    The thought of getting 100mb to my colon is somewhat uncomfortable at best.

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    I guess it will bring a whole new meaning to my broadband running crap ...

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post


    i presume NOT like this?
    I'm afraid I can't the idea of broadband via the sewers seriously since I saw that Google thing a while back. I'll believe it when I see it!


    Whatever happened to broadband through the power-lines?
    1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!!

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Knowing my luck MK won't even have sewers...

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    MK definately does, they are just at street level

    All of a sudden Virgin Media will pull its finger out, it has the bandwidth to the home, just not on the backbone.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    So when i'm on the throne, am i uploading or downloading?

    Jokes aside - brill idea given the stupidness of ofcom and BT of late.
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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    So when i'm on the throne, am i uploading or downloading?
    I really, really hope it isn't full duplex!

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Quote Originally Posted by chicken View Post
    Whatever happened to broadband through the power-lines?
    I think they found that sending high-frequency signals through powerlines had the knock-on effect of turning the pylons into giant radio masts, or something like that...

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    cap download

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    cool. 21cn being installed at my local exchange in Q3 so if that doesn't allow improved speeds then lets hope that one does

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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Typical tech support call:

    Customer: "My connection speed sucks"

    Tech: "Have you tried flushing your loo?"
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    Re: Fibre-Optic Broadband Up The Pooper?

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    Typical tech support call:

    Customer: "My connection speed sucks"

    Tech: "Have you tried flushing your loo?"
    Customer: "I'm getting slow speeds and quite a high ping."

    Tech: "Hmm your network may be congested. If you can do take a plunger and give your loo a good 'heave ho' and then recheck your connection."


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