I read somewhere that vectoring is more effective on 17a than on 30a.

If you're intent on hassling him then make it vectoring, it will benefit far more people.

Without searching was that not around April 2012?

I don't know, sorry Andrew. RONSKI and wombat may remember

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Without searching was that not around April 2012?

Yes, it was about 6 months before my FTTC order in Sept 2012.

The modem firmware's were updated autumn 2013, I think mine was Nov time, when the web interface went on my hacked modem.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I don't know, sorry Andrew. RONSKI and wombat may remember

Packages using 80/20 speeds may have become available formally in Spring 2012, I'm not sure of the exact date. Plusnet ran a trial with those speeds, which meant mine upgraded in February 2012, but I don't know how things went for the general public.

However, the cabinets were converted to the 17a profile in Autumn 2011. IIRC, the process was gradual.

My old line was affected by this profile switch... on the 8c profile, my old line suffered from errors and packet loss, and DLM intervened to drop the sync speed from 40Mbps to around 37Mbps. However, on the switch to the 17a profile, the adjustment to the frequency bands allowed my modem to sync at a full 40 without DLM intervention and without the errors & packet loss. That happened when the profile was switched in 2011, months before 80/20 services became available.

I got my fttc connection in August 2012, and that was when Plusnet officially launched their 80/20 product just as my cabinet went live. My cab was installed in February 2012 and I remember being frustrated by Plusnet not having an official 80/20 product, so it must have been available from others sometime in early 2012

Edited by R0NSKI (Sat 22-Feb-14 15:20:58)