I used to tolerate these out bursts of stupidity from you 10 years ago when you said you were a teenager but G.fast is for copper and NOTHING to do with the FTTP i.e. those with GEA-FTTP will not be seeing G.fast at all.

Also no reason why Ethernet LAN would need a 2 Gbps link speed to handle 500 Mbps either, and point us to the consumer kit that gives 2 Gig Ethernet to a PC?

Gigabit GPON FTTP is on the way as an option, hence the wholesale pricing article sometime back

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Gigabit GPON FTTP is on the way as an option, hence the wholesale pricing article sometime back

Yeah I recall that article and also a couple of posts about it too.

Would be nice to see the actual pricing of the new options, not that I will get any of them (he says that now, so you never know) TBH I think 300 Mbps down and 30 Mbps up is plenty for us here.
Mind you I wouldn't mind some more upload speed (you can never please some people LOL).

Paul

I'd be sceptical of anything an engineer tells you on the street that hasn't been mooted publicly. At that level.they are unlikely to be privy to much info that isn't already publicly available.

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you might getting 500Mbps down and 250Mbps up? Your ethernet lan network might need 2Gbps link speed.

1Gbps not enough then?

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In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Errrmm.

Isn't G.Fast a way of speeding up FTTC?

I will be more than happy to get 80/20 to become 160/40 on FTTC for now.

Me too - I can bond that [censored] also

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and point us to the consumer kit that gives 2 Gig Ethernet to a PC?

<-- raises hand.

I've just seen one on Ebay for 20 dollars with 66 dollars shipping! I didn't want to link it in case it broke the rules, but they are around!

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I'd be sceptical of anything an engineer tells you on the street that hasn't been mooted publicly. At that level.they are unlikely to be privy to much info that isn't already publicly available.

I would believe a BT Engineer more than what BT say over the phone due to its those engineers that are doing the actual work where the people on the phone mostly know nothing apart from what the screen tells them.

Also it was the engineers that informed us of the house 4 doors down from us that was already using our FTTP hardware, where as BT on the phone said we didn't even had FTTP down our road.

But yeah, some stuff an engineer says could be classed as a load of rubbish, but I have been rather lucky when talking to them.

Paul

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In reply to a post by adslmax:

you might getting 500Mbps down and 250Mbps up? Your ethernet lan network might need 2Gbps link speed.

1Gbps not enough then?

1 Gb LAN hardware In the home will be fine, well our main 16 port 1Gb Switch can handle a combined 160Gb according to the specs that I looked at when I brought them a while back, so I think we will be fine.

So if somebody was downloading at 500 Mbps at the same time a PC is copying at 1Gbps to another PC on the LAN the rest of the LAN will be fine, granted there would be no more internet speed left

Paul

In reply to a post by 23Prince:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

and point us to the consumer kit that gives 2 Gig Ethernet to a PC?

<-- raises hand.

I've just seen one on Ebay for 20 dollars with 66 dollars shipping! I didn't want to link it in case it broke the rules, but they are around!

If I was having to upgrade my LAN Cards for faster ones I would op for the 10Gb ones.

Paul