How Fibre Works
Providing the fastest connection

There are three main types of broadband connection that link the local telephone exchange to your house:
ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) uses copper cables to a street-level cabinet or junction box and on to the house.
FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) uses a faster fibre optic cable to the cabinet, but then copper cable from there to the house.
FTTP (fibre to the premises) uses a fibre optic cable to connect to households without using any copper cable.
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ADSL
Copper ADSL broadband has been the backbone of the internet infrastructure, as it's used in the telephone network across the UK and goes into most homes.
But it's old and slower than fibre optic cable, which is made from glass or plastic and uses pulses of light to transmit data.
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FTTC
Copper ADSL broadband has been the backbone of the internet infrastructure, as it's used in the telephone network across the UK and goes into most homes.
But it's old and slower than fibre optic cable, which is made from glass or plastic and uses pulses of light to transmit data.
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FTTP
FTTP connections though are the fastest, as there is a seamless fibre line all the way from the exchange to your house. It loses very little if no speed a long the way and is much more reliable than the previous technology. It also allows many more people to use it at a time (our Eero router which we offer with Full Fibre packages allows up to 75 devices to run off it).
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