Thanks RobertoS, It's good to know for the future.

It's good to see that, even on longer lines, FTTC can give a better sync speed than ADSL in some circumstances.

Thanks
Tim

Hi timl,
I'm pushing FTTC to friends and customers on this basis, in nearly every case you will get a least a bit better speed for around the same money.
This is excluding one extreme scenario when BT Wholesale estimated 10Mbps DS FTTC but the line actually syncs at 1.9Mbps and can only sustain 0.6Mbps before latency becomes a major problem.

So for most people, yes, in the Sky Hub case a friend has no o2 signal and they really wanted an o2 Boostbox but o2 recommend at least 4Mbps broadband so this should cover this, along with actually being able to watch online streaming video etc!

cheers,
flipdee