In reply to a post by lee111s:

That indeed is G.fast.

thank you,
any idea if it will be any good to me ?

my connection stats

Connecting at 80meg I'd expect something

Use https://www.dslchecker.bt.com as this will show what speeds are available when it goes live.

With it having that silver lock on it, it may be live now so pop your number into the dsl checker

Edited by deleted (Fri 18-Aug-17 20:01:33)

i did and its not showing live yet, will keep an eye on it

A press release from the GPO suggests aluminium was first used in 1969...

http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=14615.0

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

yes but most of the network isnt getting renewed. They will only swap out cable if there is a reason to. Someone not happy with their sync speed typically wont qualify.

Tell me about it.

However, I can tell you in my area in areas where many people have complained about sync speed we are swapping aluminium lengths out for copper. It depends on how much local managers want to engage with the local community I suppose.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

A press release from the GPO suggests aluminium was first used in 1969...

http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=14615.0

I had completely forgotten about that!

The moral of the story is that if someone is from an area with lots of Al the story is that the UK has masses of it in the local loop.

In reply to a post by burakkucat:

I had completely forgotten about that!

My memory seems to have hit the point that I could remember half the content, but I couldn't remember where I saw it. It took judicious re-googling with a variety of keywords to find again.

I did find references to the same changes in house electrical wiring - also requiring different types of fixtures.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

The moral of the story is that if someone is from an area with lots of Al the story is that the UK has masses of it in the local loop.

Yes, and I suspect most areas have some ali, in my experience that�s been the case. I also imagine some towns would have loads, depends when the network was built.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

A press release from the GPO suggests aluminium was first used in 1969...

http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=14615.0

Really interesting link. Someone has put in the comments that it�s a good job they didn�t achieve their objectives. Well they did as far as I can see. For a good while aluminium was the only type of cable laid in the D-side network. That�s why we see it seemingly randomly mixed in with copper cables, as if a copper cable went faulty in the 70s or 80s it would have been replaced with an aluminium one. Presumably that was all that was available from stores to engineers. I bet you would have to make a special case to your manager to obtain some copper cable at that time.

Edited by deleted (Sat 19-Aug-17 13:09:51)

Also in housing areas that were built up in the 70s.

I think the estate across the road from me was built in the 70s.

We all know ali exists in various parts of the network, but I was trying to correct the assumption the copper in the network is consistently decent grade when its not. As such ali is not always the cause of poor speeds or instability.