Whitepapers

This White Paper describes WightFibre’s Home WiFi service powered by Plume.

Firstly, lets make sure that we know the difference between WiFi and Broadband. Most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide a box that does both functions in the form of a “router”, so this can confuse things. Broadband is what connects the router to the Internet. WiFi is what connects your devices around the house to the router and which then routes to the Internet (in your home).

WightFibre’s “Whole Home WiFi” powered by Plume is the solution that brings you a WiFi solution throughout your whole home to match the Ultrafast speeds you get with a WightFibre broadband connection. It’s one thing getting fast broadband to your door, but how do you get the best performance all around your house? This White Paper focuses on the WiFi part of the journey.

This White Paper explains what is in the WightFibre street cabinets and why they are such an important and resilient component within the full-fibre network.

You may have spotted the white street cabinets with the WightFibre logo around the Island. There are two kinds of cabinet, larger ‘Active Cabinets’ which is where all the high-speed local connections are made from and smaller ‘Passive Cabinets’ which contain fibre distribution panels to connect parts of the system together.

This White Paper serves as a primer on IPv6 for readers already familiar with IPv4. IPv6 is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol and supersedes IPv4. 

The main reason that IPv6 was developed was because of the explosion of Internet usage following the invention of the World Wide Web in the 1990’s, which meant that it was forecast that the IPv4 Internet addresses would soon run out.

WightFibre has one of the most advanced networks in the world. Every single home gets its own dedicated fibre optic cable (so no sharing with your neighbours) which will allow for virtually unlimited broadband speeds for decades to come. Built on a highly resilient ‘ring’ architecture the network can survive cable cuts – in the highly unlikely event this might happen – with interrupting customer service.