That is bizaree

What was showing you maxed out and what OS/flash version/browser were you using?

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

The modems also only have 100Mb Fast Ethernet ports

I guess that's now resolved with the Home Hub 5. Uncertain as to what other providers will end up doing

only thing I will say regarding 30a ignition is if you check kitz forums there is discussions on the new firmware been rolled out and things like a 4th US channel have been added to the vdsl driver which indicates a future 30a rollout.

In regards to the line cards, personally I dont see it happening any time soon, is it business sense to replace existing cards only purchased recently, BT would be replacing cards in dslams still been rolled out and only rolled out in existing areas anytime within last 0-3 years. If they were planning it I would have expected them to be using V41's in the ECI cabinets.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

only thing I will say regarding 30a ignition is if you check kitz forums there is discussions on the new firmware been rolled out and things like a 4th US channel have been added to the vdsl driver which indicates a future 30a rollout.

The VDSL driver is one part of the firmware that isn't going to be customised though.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

The VDSL driver is one part of the firmware that isn't going to be customised though.

Indeed - the modem's VDSL driver will come from the chipset manufacturer as a blob, which is shipped unmodified by equipment vendors such as Huawei.

With the Openreach supplied modems only having a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet port, the DSLAM line cards only supporting Profile 17a (the Profile 30a line cards have half the port density, as Ignitionnet has mentioned, also I believe they have higher power consumption) and SIN 498 only requiring Profile 17a support for CP supplied FTTC equipment, I doubt Profile 30a is part of Openreach's plans for the foreseeable future.

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

It's not accurate anyway.. When it was doing the 6x test it was maxing me out but it only shows as 60mbps?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

bizarre.

I think you'd see that if your own kit couldn't support 120Mbps. Are you running on gigabit ethernet and are you 100% sure there is no fault on the cable - one bust connector and it will only run 100Mbps which may well give the result you see unless the test is UDP.

The 6x HTTP is six TCP files delivered over HTTP protocol.

Hence asking for os/browser/flash info as it may be a combo that cannot cope with that sort of multiple thread load.

I understand that. I can't see that somebody prepared to pay for 120Mbps cable is going to run a clunker of a PC though,

Is the "TBB test" UDP? I'm not that clued up on this stuff but assume there may be less collisions with UDP and that's why it's faster.

It's certainly curious.

if it is the case profile 30a needs new cards (I didnt know this as after all they switched to 17a easily) then yes I defenitly agree.

The hg612 been limited to 100mbit port isnt really a showstopper but the linecards are a bigger issue.