FTTC attainable

Hi,

Finally got FTTC installed. Spoke to a really good engineer and I had to pop out, but he said the max attainable was 150meg/40meg on his tester which is the highest he's ever seen. The cabinet is about 50 metres away -- does that seem right to you?

Any news on faster than 80meg fttc products ?

Yes sounds right.

No sign of Openreach going faster. I think they are hoping to tempt you to Fibre on Demand for faster than 80 Meg

I'll find the actual figures attainable on a Profile 17a

Edited by MHC (Wed 13-Mar-13 13:00:00)

That attainable rate will soon be chopped down by crosstalk, I have seen LOADS of stats with 140mb+ rate only to check a few weeks later and find it's in the high 90's

Isn't there a Profile 30a which could bring higher d/l speeds for those lucky people close to the FTTC box.. I think some trials have been done by BT, but with FTTP on demand on the horizon I question whether BT would rather customers choose this option instead.

Digital Region

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5602-speed-boosts...

Also has the profile graphs, 30a benefits upload but only for short lines mainly

Yeah, fair enough. I was the 17th person on the cabinet (must of been a lot of demand - it was only activated about 3 weeks ago and I thought I'd be one of the first!)

In reply to a post by lockyatlrg:

That attainable rate will soon be chopped down by crosstalk, I have seen LOADS of stats with 140mb+ rate only to check a few weeks later and find it's in the high 90's

Mine has dropped over the last year from 86Mb/s to 72Mb/s. I suppose it might recover as summer comes along.

In reply to a post by dazzlew:

Isn't there a Profile 30a which could bring higher d/l speeds for those lucky people close to the FTTC box.. I think some trials have been done by BT, but with FTTP on demand on the horizon I question whether BT would rather customers choose this option instead.

I think it highly unlikely they will roll out 30a, given that the specification for ISP-supplied modems and modem/routers (soon to be allowed) is for 17a and vectoring capability.

There'd be a lot of smell if they made them redundant in the foreseeable future.

I didn't think the gear in the cabs is ready for 30a and BT need ofcom approval for 30a too?

The line densities of the Profile 30a cards is lower too. Deutsch Telekom is/was apparently abandoning Profile 30a after disappointing results.

cheers, a

All the cabinets would need replaced too (well, the line cards at least). Can't see that happening.

agreed, I think he will survive above 80 but it will drop to 90-110 range in my view.

The only way a viable higher speed product can be launched on 17a is with vectoring, BT need to get moving on that as crosstalk is causing havoc.

Can see in my sig how much mine dropped.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 14-Mar-13 09:04:55)