Once you can get it buy a dual WAN loud balancing router and you're golden.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Once you can get it buy a dual WAN loud balancing router and you're golden.

or get both bt lines with 2 x FTTC bonded together 160/40

Yup, or pay for a dedicated leased line with an SLA if 2.5Mb doesn't serve your extremely important Facebooking and YouTubing needs adequately.

I think what you're after is lower latency and ping times, as opposed to 100 times the bandwidth that you actually need. Once you get past about 15Mb/sec, assuming that you're not FTPing massive files in order to keep your job, that amount of bandwidth is fine. Again, what you then need to look into is stability of connection and/or ping times. A 30 second video, even in 1080p, of some bloke "reacting" to another YouTube clip, doesn't require a 200Mb line. Neither does updating your Facebook page to tell everyone what you had for dinner. If you're streaming films or telly (legally of course...) just plan ahead and download it all before you start watching it - that way it won't matter if your ISP is providing you with a 14.4Kb sevice when you actually sit down to watch it. Still no excuse for your ISP to provide you with an appalling service of course, and I would definitely complain to them (not here), but at least you get to sit down and watch your thing.

One last thing which is most probably irrelevant: What spec PC are you using? Anything pre-Core 2 wasn't really designed for stereaming/decoding and rendering video which maxes out a 16 Mb/sec connection, whilst you're Facebooking and doing whatever else in other tabs at the same time. "Netburst architecture" sounds brilliant but... well, it was rubbish, and its name bore no resemblance to its capabilities.

Edited by deleted (Fri 18-Oct-13 05:57:48)

61 down 20 up.

I'm not far from the cab at all. It will be a massive improvement from 6mb.

Quite lots of Cabinets going round the Hollinswood according roadwork.org but still nothing in my area

U should get around 70/18 max (wolvesmad)

Hopefully. Hoping i've got a decent D side bit of copper that doesn't go all the way around The Wrekin before getting to my house.

If the cabinet go plan well, then had to wait for your exchange to enabled FTTC in late May 2014 and then another wait for all final testing from cabinet to exchange eg: power, connection etc then after that another final step for wholesale to change LIVE on the ADSL checker. And another 4 weeks of activated FTTC pre-order. So, u probably look around nov to dec 2014.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

If the cabinet go plan well, then had to wait for your exchange to enabled FTTC in late May 2014 and then another wait for all final testing from cabinet to exchange eg: power, connection etc then after that another final step for wholesale to change LIVE on the ADSL checker. And another 4 weeks of activated FTTC pre-order. So, u probably look around nov to dec 2014.

Did you roll a dice to get those dates or are you just sulky because Openreach have dared to delay your cabinet so you're stuck with a mere 120Mb down, 12Mb up?

Ignore the above Wolvesmad it's complete nonsense. The exchange will be live early, your cabinet will probably be one of those that is live when the exchange is marked RFS, and Nov to Dec 2013 is closer than Nov to Dec 2014.

Incorrect. The cabinet cannot go LIVE until the exchange is enabled first. His exchange isn't FTTC enabled yet.

Actually exchanges are marked as live when they have a certain number of enabled cabinets on them. Quite difficult to enable cabinets and trigger an exchange as ready for service if you don't enable cabinets until the exchange is ready for service.

The exchange work is relatively painless compared with the work done in the field.

The cabinets here probably go to a larger exchange.

Good to see you pay attention to the posts in the forum though.