[willo1]

hiall, just got an email saying-upgrading the BT network in your area -wondered if anyone knows what they'r doing,as it does'nt explain the pro's/con's. cheers ,willo.

[wwwebber]

No email here but I have recently been upgraded to the "upto 20meg" service but cant use it as my house is being refurbished so cant check to see what speed I'm getting

Where abouts are you ?

[willo1]

north yorkshire, thanx 4 reply,

[willo1]

hi wwwebber,yep the upload speed has doubled,download up a couple of meg & the ping has dropped,excellent. thanks for your reply yesterday,the email i got did'nt really explain much.

[jonesyboy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wwwebber

No email here but I have recently been upgraded to the "upto 20meg" service but cant use it as my house is being refurbished so cant check to see what speed I'm getting

Where abouts are you ?

Had an email (Well duplicated actually) stating my upgrade will be done on 19th March 2010. No details of what is actually being done. Even after following the links on the email. Ferreting about on the site it would appear to be the so called up to 20mbps service.

An estimate I found several weeks ago said I will go from 4mbps to 5mbps. Will be interesting to see what happens.

[Plasma]

Hey folks, ...

Check your local exchange details on these posts..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/bt_upgrades/

and

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...rade_schedule/

Good Luck on the speed enhancements!

Plasma

[Mystic Eddy]

OP, please realise that you're just on the up to 20Mb product now, not on FTTC like the links in Plasma's post may have you believe. You would have to contact BT in that instance to get them to change your package over to BT Infinity, such a speed upgrade like that wouldn't happen automatically because it currently requires an engineer visit.

[wwwebber]

Also, forget The Register, the place to go is :-

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/

and do an exchange search.

[lowebb]

I dont mind the 50p levy being placed on everyone to upgrade to superfast broadband. The quote I believe is 90% coverage by 2014 (?).

Well being in a rural area, I'm going to be beyond p*ssed if (and probably when) I find out I'm in the 10% who have been paying but still only able to receive 1Mbps.

Surely included in this target should be 100% 8Mbps coverage?

[jonesyboy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonesyboy

Had an email (Well duplicated actually) stating my upgrade will be done on 19th March 2010. No details of what is actually being done. Even after following the links on the email. Ferreting about on the site it would appear to be the so called up to 20mbps service.

An estimate I found several weeks ago said I will go from 4mbps to 5mbps. Will be interesting to see what happens.

As promised my Broadband was upgraded(Well it went off for a while) on 19th March 2010. So far it has stopped and restarted several time. Download remain s the same 5mbps. Upload has gone up to 1mbps. Bt say its the settling down period and I should see an improvement. We will see I am not convinced.

[Mayhew132]

Hi willo1,

Going back to your orginal post, i'll try and explain the changes on the broadband side that will happen.

At the moment BT use ADSL Max (a service that delivers up to 8mbps), since then a newer technology called ADSL2 and 2+ has been invented, allowing speeds of up to 24mbps over the same line.

Where, and how, does this extra speed come from? The copper (or if you're unlucky, aluminium) communicates over a frequency spectrum, let's say 138 kHz – 1104 kHz, with the voice traffic being carried over 10kHz to 100kHz (with the 38kHz between that being a "guard" band to protect against the ADSL noice from spilling over to the voice traffic). What ADSL2+ does is increases the spectrum to (for example) 138 kHz – 3104 kHz.

Sometimes, however, you WILL NOT get any speed benefit from ADSL2+ as higher frequencies are always the ones to weaken first as the line gets longer. So a long line getting 6000kbps with ADSL might get 5000kbps on ADSL2+, however most customers find that their speed increases.


A brief overview of the pro's and cons;

Advantages[LIST][*]Faster Download Speeds (up to 3 times faster)[*]Faster Upload Speeds (from 448kbps to over 1000kbps)[*]Moving from DSLAM's to MSAN's converging telephony equipment together for future services[*]Voice switching is IP (VoiP)[*]An end to end NGN supports Class 4 in the core transit layer and Class 5 in the access layer[*]Multi service access nodes. MSANs in the exchanges support both PSTN in the copper loop and ADSL2+[*]Substantially reduced operational costs[/LIST]
Disadvantages[LIST][*]Speed could potentially drop[*]QoS for BT Vision may not be switched on automatically (requires a chase-up call to BT)[/LIST]
It's worth noting however, that TalkTalk have had this technology since at least 2007, already implemented in over 1,100 exchanges.

I hope this helps,

Guy

[tomorrow]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lowebb

I dont mind the 50p levy being placed on everyone to upgrade to superfast broadband. The quote I believe is 90% coverage by 2014 (?).

Well being in a rural area, I'm going to be beyond p*ssed if (and probably when) I find out I'm in the 10% who have been paying but still only able to receive 1Mbps.

Surely included in this target should be 100% 8Mbps coverage?

I know the feeling - I feel as though I was subsidising the fast internet speeds for others by paying BTs high prices when all I can get is 1.5 Mbps