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On 22/10/2013 16:25, lug@xxxxxx wrote:
I am in Paignton and from looking at the BT Wholesale site it seems the exchange is due an FTTC upgrade in the next couple of months. Does anyone know if those upgrades benefit everyone on ADSL or just people paying for fibre?
Just those who opt for the FTTC services such as BT Infinity (from BT) or whatever other ISPs call their FTTC offerings. Basically they run fibre to a new cabinet which links to the old cabinet, the idea being that it reduces the length of copper from the DSLAM (the bit in the cabinet or exchange) to your modem. You'd also need a new modem too although at the moment a VDSL modem is supplied as part of the service which then connect to a router or maybe a PC running as a firewall/router. At least this is what we got at work with one of our FTTC connections.
Even if a cabinet is enabled for FTTC, anyone with an ADSL connection will still connect back to the exchange unless they switch to an FTTC service (or maybe if they're lucky and can afford it, a Fibre on Demand FTTP service where fibre is laid straight to the premises at the customers expense).
There is still the issue of backhaul though as mentioned previously.It's no better on Virgin either. Sure you can get up to 120Mbit/sec if you want, but the cabinets only have so much bandwidth which is distributed across say a couple of streets, so if everyone is using it then it slows down. I have 60Mbit/sec cable broadband from Virgin and some days I do get the full speed, other days it can go as slow as 5 or 6Mbit/sec (generally I find at stupid o'clock in the morning it runs at near enough full speed).
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