PlusNet FTTC

Will plusnet still limit connections as much when users opt for a FTTC product?

At least.

All FTTC does is speed up the connection between you and the exchange. So if more people are asking for more speed on browsing etc. that are allowed to go at line speed ....

Hi Paul,

Currently our *one* fibre customer is on one of our standard products, so all of the product rules apply.

I suspect that once Fibre becomes more widely available, we'll look at designing a fibre product, but nothing really discussed as of yet.

Edited by deleted (Wed 22-Jul-09 16:08:52)

Go on. Be market leaders. You know you want to.

It's a bit difficult with only 2 exchanges enabled

LOL! So hes limited to something stupid like 512kbps for p2p! Wow. More speed equals more bandwidth surely and higher limits from the get go so that one customer might become a dozen!

My exchange Halifax is down to be enabled October 2009 for FTTC service.
I quite like PlusNet but the speed limiting seems stupid on a VDSL product!

I would be using this for lite P2P usage, web browsing, VPN, Hosting some development servers. Nothing excessive imo.

In reply to a post by bookey:

I would be using this for lite P2P usage, web browsing, VPN, Hosting some development servers. Nothing excessive imo.

That doesn't affect the Ellacoya shaping at the Plusnet end though does it! Nor the Centrals/MSIL provision and capacity.

Central capacity is the reason for Plusnet traffic-shaping. Nothing else. FTTC wil not, in itself, affect that. But FTTC will increase the speed demands between the exchange, the MSILs and the Plusnet servers, so isn't a pleasant thought wrt traffic shaping and/or congestion.

People on FTTC will expect miracle speeds.

Say i go for the 40mbit down and 5mbit up.
I'd expect the connection to burst to these speeds when downloading or uploading, but no for sustained transfer such as P2P. But downloading a copy of a DB from a co-lo server I wuld hope is snappy and peak bandwidth.