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Rickles

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#253142 29-Jul-2019 10:30
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With many fibre installations now replacing DSL/ADSL/VDSL copper systems, is the consumer now largely reliant on wifi for distribution around the house?

 

With DSL etc, each phone jack was essentially a network access point, but these become redundant as soon as fibre is installed.

 

So, is the user left with either wifi or cabling from a router to establish connections throughout a home?


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  #2285092 29-Jul-2019 11:03
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Rickles: With many fibre installations now replacing DSL/ADSL/VDSL copper systems, is the consumer now largely reliant on wifi for distribution around the house?

 

With DSL etc, each phone jack was essentially a network access point, but these become redundant as soon as fibre is installed.

 

So, is the user left with either wifi or cabling from a router to establish connections throughout a home? 

 

From a very basic POV - fibre would terminate at the optical network terminal (ONT) inside your house and your modem/router would attach to this via an ethernet cable. Signal distribution from there can be via existing ethernet cable, new ethernet cable or wi-fi. So while your phone jacks won't be used anymore, you won't be reliant on wi-fi unless you either don't want to or can't have ethernet cabling installed.


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