g.fast or VDSL extension pod?

Any idea which it is? Appeared in the last month or so, nothing on the checker.

Pod

VDSL DSLAM side pod most likely

+1

In reply to a post by Binary_Digit:

Any idea which it is? Appeared in the last month or so, nothing on the checker.

Pod

No G.Fast areas announced since late 2018.
Not seen or know of a single G.Fast pod being installed since the end of 2019.
OpenReach announced the G.Fast rolled was "paused" in early 2020, with no announcements since.

The G.Fast rollout is over.

It will be a VDSL Sidepod.
More lovely crosstalk for the local FTTC subscribers.

Rhetorically, If FTTP was the end game all along, why did OR allow themselves the expensive and short lived (and sighted) distraction of G.Fast?

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Rhetorically, If FTTP was the end game all along, why did OR allow themselves the expensive and short lived (and sighted) distraction of G.Fast?

Did it give the Govt / Ofcom the illusion that OR were “doing something” ?

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Rhetorically, If FTTP was the end game all along, why did OR allow themselves the expensive and short lived (and sighted) distraction of G.Fast?

Did it give the Govt / Ofcom the illusion that OR were “doing something” ?

No illusion, it actually ticks boxes, which is all any large business or government needs to deem something a success.

And to be fair, I have 330/50 sync via it….. “ya hear that Ma ? I’m a success !”

To my mind, if the race to tick boxes hadn’t been marshalled by Ofcom et al, then maybe a full fibre network would have been rolling out some years back.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

And to be fair, I have 330/50 sync via it….. “ya hear that Ma ? I’m a success !”

Did you install your own G.Fast? “ ya hear that Ma, real men install their own broadband. Them that can’t ….just cheap talkin pussies.” 🤣🤣

It's probable he didn't. It is also quite possible he trained the person who did .

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

No illusion, it actually ticks boxes, which is all any large business or government needs to deem something a success.

Of course, and the product works, just the distance limits are a bit of a constraint.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

No illusion, it actually ticks boxes, which is all any large business or government needs to deem something a success.

Of course, and the product works, just the distance limits are a bit of a constraint.

….. and then some.

I’d take FTTP in an instant if it were available where I live.

My theory has alway been that having ordered a whole load of small DSLAMs to stick on telegraph poles or in last mile chambers, and discovering that this would cost more than FTTP, the most cost-effective solution is the one adopted.

Stick them in the bolt-on cabinet taking a fibre feed from the FTTC one, and use them up for a short-term as a way of getting better stats. PR aimed mainly at government, really.

Edited by pluralist (Fri 09-Jul-21 12:44:02)