In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

They are STILL CHARGED for migrations except it is £11 not £50 (plus VAT)

Oh, apologies, I mis-remembered the news article. £50 explains the contract lock in. £11 is low enough it may be passed to customers as a fee, depending on ISP.

Is there any chance that a new FTTC connection could be offered as self install, broadband only on a 30 day minimum term - I would be willing to pay an activation fee but wouldn't want to be locked into a 1 year or 18 month contract with an ISP? 40/20 might be quite interesting to test, i.e. whether it has any significant advantage, in terms of my usage, over my current ADSL2+ throughput speeds.

NO

For a new connection via FTTC it is still the £50'ish fee and a 12 month minimum term from Openreach

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

NO

For a new connection via FTTC it is still the £50'ish fee and a 12 month minimum term from Openreach

Thanks for the reply Andrew - in that case I will definitely give FTTC a miss for the time being.

BTW. the Panasonic GH4 looks pretty good for shooting "4k" - 2160p 100Mbps .mov

Yes, Plusnet does put customer on 40/20 on the 80/20 product but Plusnet just capped from their side at 40Mbps but the exchange stay at 77.42Mbps. Just waiting for plusnet staff to confirmed this!

Edited by adslmax (Mon 30-Jun-14 00:22:39)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Yes, Plusnet does put customer on 40/20 on the 80/20 product but Plusnet just capped from their side at 40Mbps but the exchange stay at 77.42Mbps. Just waiting for plusnet staff to confirmed this!

Sorry don't know much about vdsl but how do PN cap the 80/20 product to 40/20?

Using their Ellacoya traffic shaping http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=20869.0

Edited by deleted (Mon 30-Jun-14 08:24:37)

I'm not sure a link to a nine-year-old post helps. It seems from all the evidence that they just set the current line speed to 40Mbps in the member profile. Whether this counts as "Ellacoya traffic shaping" I somewhat doubt.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Using their Ellacoya traffic shaping http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=20869.0

Procera these days, chap.

In reply to a post by kasg:

I'm not sure a link to a nine-year-old post helps. It seems from all the evidence that they just set the current line speed to 40Mbps in the member profile. Whether this counts as "Ellacoya traffic shaping" I somewhat doubt.

That number isn't there for fun. They use that to enforce traffic prioritisation on their Procera kit.

Without setting a value slightly below the BT Wholesale IP Profile it's impossible to manage traffic effectively as natural congestion kicks in.