It's entirely down to what the developer orders.

It was confirmed earlier in the thread that they are NOT currently using XG-PON except in trials.
1000/220 can be delivered over the current GPON provided it is a Huawei Head end in the exchange. It will be upgraded to XG-PON when capacity deems it necessary.

In reply to a post by germanbear:

There are only 150 properties on our estate with FTTP. Crazy really.

Not crazy at all from the developer's perspective. As John says, its the developer who requests connectivity from Openreach. Usually copper is cheaper however in recent years Openreach have offered fibre at no extra cost provided the developer is building at least 30 plots - though the initial criteria was 100 homes. So if some homes on your estate are copper only, then it would have been cheaper for the developer to provide copper instead of fibre to those homes at the time, ie either the Openreach scheme had NOT started or the developer did not meet the scheme criteria when those copper only houses were being built. Most - if not all - developers will choose copper over fibre if its cheaper.

Agreed, there is only about 8 people with FTTP and there is a max of 23 homes which are on our phone pole that can get FTTP and that's it on our Splitter Node, the top half of our road can also get FTTP but that's via a different Splitter Node located round the corner from me.

BT loves to roll out FTTP like a patch work quilt, a bit here and leave the rest of the road, some more there and then leave the rest of that road, even though all the fibre hardware is in place, however I am not fully sure how many fibres going into our Splitter Node, it might be only 1 which would explain why, but I know there was loads coming out of it.

As for VM, there is no chance in hell in VM coming down our road, our road and side roads are a conservation area, so no chance in getting cabinets installed down the roads.

Good luck in getting multiple 1Gbps connection down 2.5Gb fibre, its split 32 ways at the Splitter Node so if all 32 connection started downloading a 20 GB file at the same time then all connections (assuming a single download per connection) would get a max speed of just over 78Mbps.

Paul

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

Good luck in getting multiple 1Gbps connection down 2.5Gb fibre, its split 32 ways at the Splitter Node so if all 32 connection started downloading a 20 GB file at the same time then all connections (assuming a single download per connection) would get a max speed of just over 78Mbps.

Which of course is tragically slow .

And is how Gigabit over GPON is done in many other countries

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

Good luck in getting multiple 1Gbps connection down 2.5Gb fibre, its split 32 ways at the Splitter Node so if all 32 connection started downloading a 20 GB file at the same time then all connections (assuming a single download per connection) would get a max speed of just over 78Mbps.

Which of course is tragically slow .

LOL
Well it is when you are paying for 330Mbps, but yeah I see your point.

If I was on FTTC I would be getting a max speed (according to BTOR) of 69.45Mbps (down), 20Mbps (up) which is still good, but that speed would be if my line was good, sadly its not, especially when it gets windy or when it rains.

Paul

Ditton Priors exchange got WBC FTTP 1000/220 in Bridgnorth Shropshire served by Cabinet 2 (WV16 6SE)

Openreach FTTP infrastructure has nothing to do with their copper cabinets Max

WBC FTTP 1000/220 via FTTP on Demand

But FTTPoD has nothing to do with the cabs either.