October 2022 – Briant Communications

Why Internet Upload Speeds With Full Fibre Make A Difference

When you’re shopping around for different broadband internet deals you might have noticed that most providers show different speeds for downloads and uploads, and sometimes that difference is huge. But what’s the difference, and why does it matter?

For most people going about their usual online business, their biggest concern is going to be download speeds. How fast do pictures on Instagram take to load, how quickly do Reels load, do streaming movies keep needing to buffer (especially during the best bits!), spoiling your viewing experience?

Those concerns are all due to download speeds. If you’ve got fast downloads then you’ve got that covered. So why are upload speeds of any importance? Read more

19/10/2022 By Dan Cash Briant Broadband • Broadband • General Information 0 Comments

Full Fibre For Your Business

Installing a Full Fibre connection for your business will ensure a number of positive impacts for your team, and your bottom line.

There are few businesses today which don’t rely on broadband internet in some form or another. From simply having an email address where potential customers can reach you, to running an enterprise which depends exclusively on a website geared toward taking customer orders we all need to be able to access the internet at some point every day.

Depending on how your company uses the internet the demands you have from your broadband provider are going to be different, but there are several key issues that any company is going to require from a data provider before signing the dotted line.

Reliable Speeds and Stable Access

Time is money, and you can’t have your workforce sitting around wasting time as they wait for files to load, gazing at spinning wheels instead of accessing the internet, or freezing during videoconferencing with clients or business partners. Rather they need to be able to get instant access to the internet no matter what time of day. Full Fibre delivers a stable, symmetrical service over fibre optic cables. Uploads are as fast as downloads meaning sharing the biggest files can take place while simultaneously Zooming with as many people who need to be in attendance. Read more

12/10/2022 By Dan Cash Briant Broadband • Broadband • Construction • Energy Saving • General Information • Renovation copper replacement • energy efficiency • full fibre 0 Comments

Switching to Full Fibre Doesn’t Just Give You Faster Broadband

There are many benefits to switching to Full Fibre broadband, something the UK is in line to achieve before 2025. These don’t only include faster download and upload speeds, but there are many other benefits too.

One of the drawbacks of copper cable is that it is heavy, another is that it is fragile. It weighs about 10g per foot, and there were 57,000,000 miles of copper cable buried under the ground and hanging from telegraph poles, (I’ve done the numbers, that’s 3,960,000 tonnes) and it’s easy for it to get damaged by high winds, damage poles, roadworks digging in the wrong place and many other causes.

Copper Is Costly

Copper is also valuable. At the time of writing the value of refined copper is $7,450 per tonne. With almost four million tonnes of copper lying around, that’s a huge resource, and a huge temptation. Throughout the UK and elsewhere there have been several incidents where there have been phone and internet outages due to people stealing data cable. (With the very low amperages used in telephony and data, it’s clearly a much safer bet than stealing electrical cable!) Fibre on the other hand is virtually valueless to anyone who isn’t a fibre installer.

So fibre’s more likely to be left in the ground, and while it’s there it’s a lot less likely to require maintenance too. Verizon, the US phone and data provider report that in New York, after installing fibre there has been a 60% reduction in truck deployments to maintenance issues, and a 40-60% reduction in associated costs. Read more

05/10/2022 By Dan Cash Briant Broadband • Broadband • Construction • General Information • Home Entertainment copper • fibre • spectrum 0 Comments

How Does Fibre Broadband Work So Fast?

If you remember your physics from school you’ll know that electricity travels at the speed of light, and that the speed of light is a constant (provided it’s travelling through a medium which isn’t incredibly dense, or incredibly cold, or a black hole… OK in NORMAL circumstances light speed is a constant!), so if electricity can travel down a wire that fast, how does fibre, which uses light instead of electricity, transmit so much more data?

It’s not as if Full Fibre is a little bit faster than copper wire either. Depending on how far you are from the internet exchange you’re using you could get speeds of up to 80 Mbps on copper cable. If you happened to live 100 metres or less from the servers. Go to 200 metres and your speed could drop to 65 Mbps, and it would get slower and slower the further you kept going without the introduction of repeaters, boosters and other devices that keep the signal strong and fast. Read more