Has anything changed on FTTC?

Well after a glorious two years on FTTP, I am moving house and only FTTC is available.

Luckily the cab is only a few hundred meters away, BT estimate is giving me 60-70Mb.

Has anything changed tech wise on FTTC over the last 2 years? Vectoring? I had a Zyxel VMG1312-B10A running at my old place as a modem on FTTC and it pulled the line up from 62Mbps to 75Mbps.

The cab is an Huawei so thinking of getting one of these again.

Why did you move house away from FTTP?. If it was me, I wouldn't move away from any FTTP that have it. Sound like big downgrade from FTTP back to FTTC.

This is what gives the game away.

"I am moving house and only FTTC is available."

Sigh. Because there is more to life than broadband.

In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

The cab is an Huawei so thinking of getting one of these again.

Probably a good choice. If you want a modem to give you an Ethernet point you can then connect any device in the same way you did with the ONT. Friends and family of mine are still using Huawei Openreach modems, and there are likely lots around in peoples cupboards etc as 'spares'. One friend moved from cable (200 mbps) to Vodafone FTTC (50 mbps) and he picked up a Huawei HG612 modem from an advert, and connected it to his firewall and has no issues. (Apart from dropping 150 megabit in speed, which he doesn't care about, the price was king).

I had a HG612 prior to my Zyxel and the Zyxel out performed it. They’re getting on a bit now HG612’s. It was only a 3Mbps difference but apparently the Zyxels have a noise filter in them or something.

The house was too good an opportunity to turn down. As it’s only me and my girlfriend speed isn’t particularly the be all and end all, although I know my ping will be slightly higher on FTTC, interleaved.

I couldn’t drop down to 20Mbps but 70-80Mbps should be fine.

There’s a new development near by with FTTP so hopefully BT infil.

Yep the HG612’s are very long in the tooth these days

In reply to a post by wolvesmad:

I had a HG612 prior to my Zyxel and the Zyxel out performed it. They’re getting on a bit now HG612’s. It was only a 3Mbps difference but apparently the Zyxels have a noise filter in them or something.

Didn’t see any difference at all on my old 45 Mbps line, but maybe the faster lines show more of a difference. I did have random issues with some websites, which went away when returning to HG612, but then I gave up due to the slow upload and went to cable. (Which is also problematic!)

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Sigh. Because there is more to life than broadband.

Not for some people!