In reply to a post by zyborg47:

but I don't any of them are getting the speed they thought they should get.

I know you don't know me, but I have always achieved well above my estimated speed.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

FTTC is not all it's cracked up to be considering how much extra some people pay compared to ADSL.

Ok if you got a 1-2 Megabit ADSL connection and FTTC giver you 20Mb/s or more, then it may be worth the extra.

Couldn't disagree more, going from 3Mbps (on a good day) to nearly 70Mbps (and 20Mbps upload) for an extra fiver or so a month was well worth it for me, it has transformed the way we user the Internet.

I must be one of the lucky ones
70/20 without a single outage in 18 months.
Speed has reduced slightly during that time probably due to crosstalk.

I see these type of posts both here and on the BT forum whereby an isolated incident is enough for the customer to expect the whole world to change.
I don't know how many customers are signed up to FTTC but 18 months ago it was 500,000.
I believe an inherent technical issue would result in many more posts.

Used to get 10Mb down, 1Mb up on ADSL2+.

Now get 50Mb down and 16Mb up on FTTC (both in excess of the original estimate).

I'm happy - the extra upstream is especially useful for uploading photos to Flickr.

When I changed to FTTC it cost me about £2 more, but with referral fees I'm now paying less.

A lot of people simply don't use the Internet to its full potential, so never need the speed.

My FTTC expecting go live in February 2014 hopefully. I will sign up to have Plusnet FTTC as it was estimated 74/20 (low is 68/19) as my ADSL2+ only do 15-16Meg. Will cost me an extra £10 for FTTC.

Edited by adslmax (Wed 04-Dec-13 12:54:40)

Now over two million and climbing rapidly

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Now over two million and climbing rapidly

BT would get a nice profit money now!

Well as they claim to have spent £2.5 billion to allow those two million to actually order, then I think it will be a while before they are making a profit.

In reply to a post by kasg:

I know you don't know me, but I have always achieved well above my estimated speed.

I am so glad. I think my brother is getting good speeds, so he said, but then he would have got good speeds without FTTC

Couldn't disagree more, going from 3Mbps (on a good day) to nearly 70Mbps (and 20Mbps upload) for an extra fiver or so a month was well worth it for me, it has transformed the way we user the Internet.

i am sure for some people it will, certainly if you got a family that uses multiple devices.

In reply to a post by smouty:

I must be one of the lucky ones
70/20 without a single outage in 18 months.
Speed has reduced slightly during that time probably due to crosstalk.

I never said about outages, as far as I know none of them have had outages, but they don't seem to have the speed they was told they could get.

Someone who can walk out of their gate and see the cabinet is getting 35Mb/s from plusnet, something is wrong there. BTOR have had a look and say it is fine and the connection is 60+, so if that is the case it must be Plusnet with their traffic shaping again.

Next door neighbour 20Mb/s if they are lucky, with BT should be getting at least 30.

I see these type of posts both here and on the BT forum whereby an isolated incident is enough for the customer to expect the whole world to change.
I don't know how many customers are signed up to FTTC but 18 months ago it was 500,000.
I believe an inherent technical issue would result in many more posts.

I just don't think FTTC is as great as it is made out to be and as more people uses it we will have more problems with crosstalk.
I did think about FTTC before I went for the service I have got, but after thinking about it, I decided to go for something different.
One reason was because BT was dragging their heals with FTTC here, changing the dates all the time, not knowing what the hell they was doing. they did get it up and running about a month after I changed to my current ISP.

Another reason was because I had enough of the large ISPs before, which is why I went back to ADSL24 for ADSL.

I am glad i made the choice I did and looking at what is happening with large rISPs and being told to use filters where your surfing is going to god knows where to be scanned, certainly with Talk talk and their Chinese partners.

Sure it is not for everyone, but i now get a decent 10Mb/s, instead of the 3-4 i had with ADSL and know phone line is ideal, as long as this wind don't blow any of the repeaters over

i am not saying I will never got for FTTC, but at the moment it is not for me.