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BT now offering 300mb Infinity
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Sorry if its already been posted,
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/faster-internet
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/faster-internet
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Meanwhile in the real world.....
Yeah they are rolling out FTTP in a few areas in the UK - Penzance for example. Usually where they have been given some incentive (eg BDUK funding) to do so.
Are you in a non-infinity area, or are you one of the poor souls who are directly cabled to the exchange?
The coverage is extremely spotty. Penzance almost certainly won't have more than one or two streets with it.
I live in a village In Cornwall which is listed as "FTTC / P", the FTTP coverage in reality is a single road, maybe 20 houses. I don't know why, the design of the network is the same as the rest of the village and it isn't a new build estate. The nearby town is the same. I have been in a third town in Cornwall where half of the road has FTTP and then it inexplicably stops and is replaced with FTTC.
It's not on their main broadband packages page though. This will only be offered to the few areas that are lucky enough to have access to FTTP. What's in your link has been there for weeks now. I thought that BT were starting to get to work on installing FTTP across Britain from the title of this thread.
They haven't bothered about my heavy downloading. Saying this though, I highly doubt I'll get anywhere near the 800GBs mark that some are claiming to have downloaded in a month. I might get to about the 400-500GBs mark on a really heavy download month.
Do you have confirmation that BT have said that your street will be FTTP? (preferably someone from Openreach, not someone from BT retail as they'll just lie like any other big internet provider)
They might say that the exchange is "FTTP" but that's been proven to mean nothing, they'll do one street, give everyone else fibre to the cabinet and the list will say "FTTP" or "FTTC/P".
You might get very lucky but I'd be prepared to be disappointed.
Yeah open reach guys working on our new estate
There's no way the current technology can do 300Mb using FTTC. Maybe Fibre to the Distribution Point but not FTTC.
Really? Vectoring and a new developing standard G.Fast beg to differ on that one.....
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/07/future-1gbps-fttc-broadband-g-fast-technology-passes-first-stage-approval.html
True, not at the moment, but my FTTC upload speeds are better than ever these days, have just uploaded a 1 Gbyte video file to Youtube at an average 19.2Mbps (it always used to be about 17). I don't think FTTP as currently offered is going to better that, at least not on most FTTP packages and VM comes nowhere near.
G.fast requires yet more equipment on the street, e.g. at poles. If BT decides to go down that route they really need their head examined, if they're going to run fibre to or near every pole, why on earth would they then plop some expensive mini-DSLAM on the top and still use crappy copper when they could finish the job for good and do the final stretch as fibre too?
And what proof do you have for that statement?
From what I've read, FTTP from BT offers an upload speed of 30Mbits.
I'll check when I'm down in PZ again, the house there has FTTP.
Well, it does say 'up to' 30Mbits upload in the link below. I can't understand why there should be an 'up to' with a pure fibre connection. Unless the sending speed depends on how fast your hardware is.
https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/static/Products/Broadband/Fibre_to_the_Premises/index.htm