He also said he'll literally cut his legs off before he goes back to having Virgin as an ISP. I doubt that's true.

OK, so I missed the fact that he's renting, sorry. But I think my basic points stand, even if it "only" costs 10K to move then don't do it to move from decent ADSL2+ > fibre, surely, unless the most important thing in your life is gaming?

Renting but moving still costs, as I know all too well, even if it isn't 10K. Similarly to buying/selling, you don't get to move anywhere close to exactly when you want, and you end up paying, which was half the point. Fibre is brilliant, but not "live your life around it even though similar alternatives are already being provided" brilliant? Matter of opinion I suppose, and this is mine.

Edited by deleted (Sat 11-May-13 07:17:36)

I do agree it is extreme moving house just for better broadband, not so bad if you rent though, and if there are other benefits to doing it as well.

But it all comes down to personal circumstances and needs at the end of the day.

True that. Unsure about the 100m thing though - the distance I've seen mentioned on planning applications was 50m; are we sure that the 100m isn't round trip length, after all the copper does have to go there and back?

I've seen 100 metres mentioned as an absolute limit, and 50 metres as the preferred maximum. But not in a way that I'd say was an absolute statement by BT.

You could be right on the round-trip, but I've never seen that qualification anywhere at all. And while the voice signal will be going out and back, the VDSL2 signal only goes down one leg.

Following on from this post, which I found hard to believe, I had a word with Zarjaz. His reply was

Bumped into an NGA planner today, so asked the question.

They look to install the DSLAM cab within 40m of the PCP. They will however, go to 80m at a push.

I wonder if that is the physical distance rather than the cable length though, which would tie in with the commonly believed 50m? I didn't think of asking that.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 11-May-13 15:36:29)

The VDSL2 only does one leg per packet , unlike the phone traffic.

Probably a reasonable source then

Once you add a few metres for dropping up & down between cabinet & duct, you're probably right on the difference between physical distance and cable distance.

Edited by deleted (Sat 11-May-13 16:00:38)

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

We are talking a few hundred and most of them rather large and posh.

A few hundred posh, large homes in 350 yards of road?

Edited by deleted (Sat 11-May-13 19:39:54)