Fewer and fewer of us are using our home phones, personally I don’t even own one and there are those who have had the copper wiring that used to provide their landline phone connection removed. Why? There are many reasons, some simply didn’t replace damaged wiring and had it removed for safety, feeling of course that damaged wiring that wouldn’t be used was something they were simply better off without. Some even had it removed to sell a few years ago when the resale value of scrap metal like copper rose considerably. However; they might come to regret it.
There are two reasons I am happy with the copper wiring remaining in my home, the first is that it provides an emergency internet connection. Using pay-as-you-go dialup internet services you can accomplish a connection at any time, day or night, for low cost and reliability. This is perfect if you have a wireless broadband connection which suffers unexplained and unpredictable signal drop frequently, reducing your internet service to nothing.
Instead of sitting there, restarting your modem, running diagnostics on your connection and wondering how many tries it will take to guess your neighbours password you can just plug in a cable, log in and pay for it with your phone bill at the end of the month. Simple. Don’t want to use it for longer than you have to? If you have a smartphone, tablet or wi-fi enabled mp4 player with app support you can download a radio streaming app and open it. Of course it won’t be able to stream the radio until it manages to accomplish a wi-fi connection, so when it starts playing music your internet is back on and you can switch back to broadband without wasting time waiting for it and not getting things done.
The second reason I like knowing I still have that connection available is because copper wire is actually very good at doing broadband. G.fast is a broadband option that uses copper telephone wire to achieve download speeds of up to 1GBps; it is reliable, and because the copper wire is already there and ready to go it’s cheap too. The standardisation of G.fast stated in 2011, it is expected that by April 2014 it will be a standard and easily attainable form of connectivity, which could mean faster, cheaper and more reliable internet packages for anyone who struggles with wireless broadband.
The fastest LTE-Advanced networks currently being tested use 40MHz of spectrum, but the G.fast would use 106MHz; which does give you a pretty good indication of the speeds you might expect from this new form of broadband. The only problems so far are that the G.fast won’t work over long distances; which makes it an unlikely solution for rural areas unless there is big demand for it; enough to warrant installing an exchange in the area. The second problem is that, as you would expect of a service that uses the landline copper connections; it will be affected by crosstalk interference. This isn’t to the extent of dialup – you will be able to use the phone and internet at the same time as there is vectoring to counter it, however there may need to be some physical modifications made to your wiring to ensure this works correctly. As not many people use their landlines any more however this is unlikely to cause much of an issue at all.
About the Author:
Kate Critchlow is a young writer with a quickly developing passion for technology, in particular software design.
There are two reasons I am happy with the copper wiring remaining in my home, the first is that it provides an emergency internet connection. Using pay-as-you-go dialup internet services you can accomplish a connection at any time, day or night, for low cost and reliability. This is perfect if you have a wireless broadband connection which suffers unexplained and unpredictable signal drop frequently, reducing your internet service to nothing.
Instead of sitting there, restarting your modem, running diagnostics on your connection and wondering how many tries it will take to guess your neighbours password you can just plug in a cable, log in and pay for it with your phone bill at the end of the month. Simple. Don’t want to use it for longer than you have to? If you have a smartphone, tablet or wi-fi enabled mp4 player with app support you can download a radio streaming app and open it. Of course it won’t be able to stream the radio until it manages to accomplish a wi-fi connection, so when it starts playing music your internet is back on and you can switch back to broadband without wasting time waiting for it and not getting things done.
The second reason I like knowing I still have that connection available is because copper wire is actually very good at doing broadband. G.fast is a broadband option that uses copper telephone wire to achieve download speeds of up to 1GBps; it is reliable, and because the copper wire is already there and ready to go it’s cheap too. The standardisation of G.fast stated in 2011, it is expected that by April 2014 it will be a standard and easily attainable form of connectivity, which could mean faster, cheaper and more reliable internet packages for anyone who struggles with wireless broadband.
The fastest LTE-Advanced networks currently being tested use 40MHz of spectrum, but the G.fast would use 106MHz; which does give you a pretty good indication of the speeds you might expect from this new form of broadband. The only problems so far are that the G.fast won’t work over long distances; which makes it an unlikely solution for rural areas unless there is big demand for it; enough to warrant installing an exchange in the area. The second problem is that, as you would expect of a service that uses the landline copper connections; it will be affected by crosstalk interference. This isn’t to the extent of dialup – you will be able to use the phone and internet at the same time as there is vectoring to counter it, however there may need to be some physical modifications made to your wiring to ensure this works correctly. As not many people use their landlines any more however this is unlikely to cause much of an issue at all.
About the Author:
Kate Critchlow is a young writer with a quickly developing passion for technology, in particular software design.
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