I believe it wont fix crosstalk caused by things such as split and damaged pairs. In other words it doesnt fix a physically broken network.

If BT ever do rollout vectoring I predict we will see various people not getting their speed back because of this as openreach seem in denial with the state of their network.

Flogging a dead horse comes to mind, conveniently able to use a quantity of public money to buy the whips.

I am sure BT announcement of vectoring for all FTTC roll out in this April (next month) or probably October this year.

if its too young how have others had it deployed already?

there is commercial products on the market both dslams and modems that have the technology, its not something thats still in the labs only.

Simply its BT just been slow again and trying to rollout FTTC on the cheap. I think they skipped over it because originally they were expect a decent FTTP rollout to go along with it and perhaps planning to migrate FTTC to FTTP as well, but their FTTP problems probably means FTTC is more long term than originally planned and now because of that they started looking into vectoring, thats my view only of course.

already going ahead, install due late march.

The problem been tho they may use the same dropwire and as a result not even touch the pole or junction box to do the install so if either of those 2 is the issue then it will still be issue on the new line.

My neighbour because he is round the back has his own dropwire and not using my junction box.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 05-Mar-14 08:56:00)

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

Were the "before" figures using FEC? Both the "after" figures are using 6% of the bandwidth for error correction, even though no interleaving is in use.

(R=16/N=254)

I took those stats the day after the install, I'm pretty sure FEC was in use at that time and was activated overnight.

sorry missed your post, looked for it when you mentioned 25%

98mbit down to 74mbit?

not as bad as me but still brutal.

Expect to be told 80mbit is the max attainable so that will wipe out 18mbit of your loss and then probably after that be told 74 is excellent so nothing to worry about

if its any hope to you, on my own line most of the loss occured in the first 3 weeks. After that further drops of speed were in small amounts. So I went from 110 to 72-73 in 3 weeks, then it took a further year to get me down to 65. I was down to 62 but I got 3mbit back by swapping out my NTE5 as incompetant engineers failed to diagnose a broken NTE5 (was causing drops of upstream snrm during calls, showed up on their testers but they ignored).

Also you are far from the exchange like me, so the adsl power cutback I expect on your line is probably heavy. Seems to be lighter for people close to the exchange meaning distance from the exchange does still have 'some' bearing on FTTC speeds.

Edited by Chrysalis (Wed 05-Mar-14 09:11:05)

I agree, God help us when take up hits levels where "super fast" becomes "super slow"

I may get a second line when my contract expires, as I'm sure something is wrong with mine. I don't seem to have been hit by cross talk, and if anything my speed has improved.

I probably should have canned this line when I moved to plusnet and did a new line order then, but I was worried the new line would be worse.