Waited for Fibre Optics for 14 years

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Alexoferith

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I am not sure if I have come to the right area. I wonder if anyone can help. I have been waiting for fibre optics for 14 years for my home but to no avail. And that is because over 60% of the properties in the area or estate is rented out to the housing association. (By the way, I am in the UK for non-UK readers.) And apparently, there is fibre optics in the main road, about 50 meters away from my property. But due to their marketing policy or statics, whatever you call it, it is not "economical" to "bring in" the fibre optics into the estate as statistically, tenants of housing association do not stay long enough to sell them fibre optical broadband plan. It would be a silly reason to move for me and I cannot afford a new place anyway. I am a gamer, playing online game mostly. But the copper wire broadband just cannot cope with all the gadgets average household will have. My wife has an iPad and an iphone . My daughter has a phone, an iPad and a MAC air. If I am not playing online, I will be watching Youtube videos. Oh, my wife loves her Korean soap so I got her a TV box as well. So, you can guess how busy the broadband will be every evening, especially weekend. There are two options that I am thinking of. Getting another phone line and use it purely for my online gaming, or getting a mobile broadband, i.e. sim card with just data plan. Or do you have any suggestion? Also, does anyone know how much data will be used for online gaming? I play COD WW2 multiplayer at the moment, at least 4 hours a day, longer on weekend. I get unlimited usage but the data usage record always include the videos, so I have no idea how much online gaming data is used.
 
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The gaming itself uses quite little data, it just wants it all now without interruptions.
That no interruptions makes mobile data plans iffy in my opinion since said interruptions can and will happen more than with normal broadband.
Reason for that is that total bandwidth/cell tower is limited and shared between everyone. Your connection to towers will change periodically based on their load and/or positioning and if it drops you from 4G to 3G.... your ping will go from 10 to 20ms to 100 to 200ms.

As for the reasoning why they don't want to bring in fibre.. it isn't fun. but at same time, it's lies.
It takes same time/effort to sell/connect/do fibre as with normal DSL once cabling is done. The main issue is said cabling, in most houses...
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The gaming itself uses quite little data, it just wants it all now without interruptions.
That no interruptions makes mobile data plans iffy in my opinion since said interruptions can and will happen more than with normal broadband.
Reason for that is that total bandwidth/cell tower is limited and shared between everyone. Your connection to towers will change periodically based on their load and/or positioning and if it drops you from 4G to 3G.... your ping will go from 10 to 20ms to 100 to 200ms.

As for the reasoning why they don't want to bring in fibre.. it isn't fun. but at same time, it's lies.
It takes same time/effort to sell/connect/do fibre as with normal DSL once cabling is done. The main issue is said cabling, in most houses they don't want to start doing all new internal cabling.
Which leaves FTTB instead of FTTH where the fibre goes to buildings phone box and from there, using old copper to houses.
that would allow usage of VDSL instead of ADSL (not sure if you have VDSL already in which case it wont help) and as a result up to like 75/10Mbit speeds. (compared to 24/2 for ADSL)

but.. yeah, game data usage is generally quite low, less than you use when surfing (not watching videos) the internet. (websites are bloated with useless junk) so unless you also update games with it.. it wont really go over any realistic caps.
 
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