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Codrington Village South Gloucestershire Rural Broadband Internet Campaign
Thanks to the campaigning of various people in South Gloucestershire the village of Codrington and its local area, along with other rural areas in South Gloucestershire are due to get FTTP infrastructure installed during 2017. Details of the Codrington campaign are here.
Unfortunately 5 houses at the West of Codrington were not updated due to a missing underground duct. We are now trying to get this upgraded using the Openreach community scheme and Gigabit vouchers. Information on this is here CodringtonWest/index.html
Original Codrington FTTP update information from 2017
This contains information based on what SGCC (South Gloucestershire County Council) and Openreach have stated along with other information. It may be wrong !
Installation Dates
| April, May, June | Oldbury on Severn, Tytherington |
| July, August, September (now end of December) | Codrington |
| October, November, December | Cromhall, Dyrham, Elberton, Hill, Hinton, Littleton Upon Severn, Totteroak, West Littleton, Little Sodbury, Little Sodbury End |
Things are slowly progressing and areas are starting to be updated using pure-fibre FTTP provision. Unfortunately Openreach are still stuck in their hybrid-fibre copper rut so some rural areas will still be updated using hybrid-fibre FTTC technology. Anyway Codrington and its surrounding area are being updated with pure-fibre FTTP so the information on this site is primarily for genuine fibre, FTTP (Fibre to the premises) technology.
Getting an FTTP broadband Internet service
- What is FTTP (fibre to the premises) ?
- Is my line ready for ordering FTTP broadband Internet ?
- How do I now order FTTP broadband Internet ?
- FTTP_Speed
General Information
| BT FTTP | http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/02/rural-herefordshire-villages-celebrate-arrival-330mbps-fttp-broadband.html |
| BT FTTP | http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/09/detailed-maps-fttp-broadband-way-rural-northumberland.html |
| BT FTTP Install videos | http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/showthread.php/31750-Openreach-FTTC-and-FTTP-Installation-Videos |
| BT FTTP infrastructure video | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouSB_3c_fm8 |
| Shropshire FTTP information | http://connectingshropshire.co.uk/fibre-to-the-premises-fttp-installation/ |
| A cornwall FTTP installation | http://tom.goskar.com/2013/09/20/my-fibre-to-the-premises-fttp-installation-part-1/ |
| ZEN FTTP costs | https://www.zen.co.uk/business/broadband/fibre-optic-broadband/fttp-broadband.aspx |
| FTTP PON vs PTP | http://blog.m2fx.com/fiber-to-the-premises-deployments-comparing-pon-and-p2p-architectures |
| A view of new technologies | https://neil-fairbrother.squarespace.com/blog/2013/7/1/gfast-a-high-speed-cul-de-sac |
| Our Campaign | campaign.html |
Notes
- Although the term "Broadband" is often used to describe "last mile" Internet infrastructure, it is not technically a good term. The word "broadband" was used with newer/faster copper based internet infrastructure technologies as these technologies (ADSL, VDSL) used a wide bandwidth of the available frequency spectrum band to get more data bits per second down the old style copper wire pairs. The higher frequencies used allowed more bits/s but only at relatively short distances as the higher frequencies are attenuated heavily with distance. With pure fibre technologies such as FTTP the actual bandwidth currently used of the available bandwidth is tiny (one frequency/colour of light) so it is actually a narrow band technology. In the future wider bandwidths are likely to be used over fibre to get even greater Internet access speeds.