Full Fibre Broadband is being rolled out throughout the country, and upwards of 85% of homes and businesses should be able to get Full Fibre by 2025. In the meantime more and more homes are being connected, but how do you make sure you’re getting the fastest broadband internet?
First Of All, What Is Full Fibre?
Full Fibre is also called FTTP or FTTH which stands for Fibre To The Property/Premises of Fibre To The Home. What it means is that there is an uninterrupted fibre optic connection from your router to the datacentres which sit at the heart of the World Wide Web. Because copper phone lines are limited to the amount of data they are able to relay any stage of the journey from or to the servers from your router which is over copper phone lines is going to be slower, slowing the entire process. Full Fibre means that your broadband internet service provider is able to give you speeds up to 900 Mbps because there is never a stage at which the signal is slowed down. Read more