Gfast Vanished from DSL checker.

Gfast was recently installed on my cabinet and it popped on the DSL checker for my address and I could get about 158mbs but now its vanished and unavailable but available to my neighbour who is about 20 meter closer to the cab on the same DP

My line is 230 meters long and I get a strong 80mbs line on a quite a full cab..

Why has it vanished and is Gfast that bad it doesn't work at that distance? what a waste of time installing for all of about 20 houses that could get it off my cab.

They increased the minimum on G.Fast from 100Mb to 120Mb.
Possible your line is amongst those that are now out of range.

Was the 158Mb the Clean/High estimate?

A screenshot (if taken at the time) of the estimates would help.

so they have made the worthless tech even more worthless by increasing limits..

so they have made the worthless tech even more worthless by increasing limits..

Worthless to you perhaps but far from worthless for the many with useful functioning G-Fast connections.

Lucky those and the 3rd of the users (at best) on their cabs that can get it.. Yes I'd say that's worthless.

This is mine compared to next door - ironically I get better FTTC results...

https://ibb.co/zGPvfFQ

Very plausible that what j0hn said is the case.

You're obviously entitled to your opinion nevertheless there are many users who disagree with you and are perfectly happy with their G-Fast connections.

Your neighbour is on the edge of G.Fast range.
Why your line was removed and theirs wasn't is beyond me.

Just look what G.Fast would likely do to your neighbors upstream.
The lower estimates are 80Mb down / 6Mb up.

In all likelihood it would be somewhere between the 22Mb high estimate and the 8Mb low estimate

I wouldn't be jealous the neighbour can order G.Farce at those estimates if I got 80/20.

In reply to a post by MCM:

You're obviously entitled to your opinion nevertheless there are many users who disagree with you and are perfectly happy with their G-Fast connections.

Not as many as you might think. The most recent BT group results for quarter ending 31 March 2019 show only 25,000 active subscribers for G.fast, out of 2.020 million properties where it is nominally available - or 1.2% take-up.

There are more than ten times as many active FTTP connections (306,000), even though only 1.247m properties are passed by FTTP.

Obviously there are various factors skewing this, such as properties where FTTP is available but no FTTC.

Edited by candlerb (Mon 01-Jul-19 08:50:26)

Lots of the that FTTP take-up is going to be new build - fttp only option and BDUK areas where it is the only fast option. Comparing G.fast take-up to that blanket wide figure when some of the FTTP has been in place for almost ten years also needs factoring in.

Looking at Fibre First areas which are nearest to the G.fast footprint it is not much of a different take-up story for now.