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BT now offering 300mb Infinity
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They have been for a while - but only if you are in a direct fibre (FTTP) area.
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Just noticed, I was looking at what BT offers in my area. Currently on VM cable. No issues with them but my work are willing to subsidise a BT connection.
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BT FTTP is better than VM Cable, as it doesn't traffic manage nearly as aggressively.
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Jesus wept. I can't even get 38mb BT Infinity and now they are rolling out 300mb Infinity? BT really p*** me off!
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Great news for all those Torrent users and home hosts.
Meanwhile in the real world..... |
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Jesus wept. I can't even get 38mb BT Infinity and now they are rolling out 300mb Infinity? BT really p*** me off!
Are you in a non-infinity area, or are you one of the poor souls who are directly cabled to the exchange? |
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I read recently that Openreach FTTP on new builds will start to be more common from now on. So that's a good thing.
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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? 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. |
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BT FTTP is better than VM Cable, as it doesn't traffic manage nearly as aggressively.
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Jesus wept. I can't even get 38mb BT Infinity and now they are rolling out 300mb Infinity? BT really p*** me off!
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Will speeds like this ever be possible with FTTC?
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Cant wait my area is finally been done this year and its fttp
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Cant wait my area is finally been done this year and its fttp
![]() 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. |
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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. been waiting so long. Now just a new router instead of bts rubbish.
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Will speeds like this ever be possible with FTTC?
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I'm guessing that once the FTTC speeds are close to the 300Mbits mark, BT might switch people on FTTC to FTTP. 300Mbits might be when people on FTTC get put on FTTP.
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There's no way the current technology can do 300Mb using FTTC. Maybe Fibre to the Distribution Point but not FTTC.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...-approval.html |
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There's no way the current technology can do 300Mb using FTTC. Maybe Fibre to the Distribution Point but not FTTC.
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Really? Vectoring and a new developing standard G.Fast beg to differ on that one.....
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...-approval.html |
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Not much use to me, which is a shame as I would like to see competition for Virgin here. I live in the suburbs of a city of 125,000, and the BT checker tells me I'd get only 8Mbs if I switched to them from Virgin. So no sign of Infinity here, and I will stay with what is an excellent Virgin broadband service now giving 50Mbs.....but Virgin do need competition.
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There's no way the current technology can do 300Mb using FTTC. Maybe Fibre to the Distribution Point but not FTTC.
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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.
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From what I've read, FTTP from BT offers an upload speed of 30Mbits.
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