Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Good point about G.fast. It'll be interesting to see what advertised speeds that ends up with, as that's what Virgin targets. It can do gigabit in theory, but I can't see it ever being advertised as such.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

500Mbps apparently:
Should also make 1000Mbps FTTPoD a lot cheaper too. But they expect it'll take 10 years to complete rollout.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

What does "most homes" mean? Those with copper-aluminium-copper runs to the cabinet?

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Same as "most homes" that get FTTC service?

The cabinet run will be of less relevance now that it'll be FTTdP

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

I would expect that statement to be nothing less than the usual 51% can get this speed.

Still, if it means someone who'd previously get maybe 8meg on ADSL2 and 30Meg on FTTC can now get 200Meg, that's fine with me.

I really can't see there being a need for multi-hundred Mbps speeds on the downstream any time this decade. I could be wrong, but I just don't see anything beyond VoD pushing it.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Well 2025 isn't this decade.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

For me it's appeal is upstream. If it goes like it seems it will their upstream is going to be multiples of VM's, not just a few mbps faster. We can only hope they give us something special with 3.1 but it's far from a guarantee.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

As the service will effectively do away with the cab as it is from the dp then one could hope that more homes will be served (proviso:- commercial viablity).

Effectively it would bring more homes into range of the DSLAM (on the dp)...ish

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Doesn't answer my question Pip. My telephone line (copper strung, aluminium u/g) goes to a ****** cabinet. Then of course to the FTTC cabinet.

So what will change at my home? And if the route remains the same, will my aluminium wire with its impedance mismatch no longer cause me to lose 40% of my upper limit DS speed and 55% of my upstream speed?

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

A what?

A FTTdP line doesn't go to any cabinet.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Correct. It boils down to the length from dp to premisis (or should that be premises).

Seph, the DSLAM is effectively at the dp.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

I'm obviously missing the point. My question is centred on my installation.

Modem -> Copper overhead -> aluminium u/g (300m) -> Crappy cabinet --> FTTC cabinet.

What is going to change at MY installation? Will I get more speed from G.Fast?

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Modem -> copper overhead -> dpDSLAM.

Speed depends on distance from dp. No more aluminium!

Effectively the DSLAM is pole mounted or that will be where the fibre termination point will be and copper from there.

I thought I'd reported on this 2 yrs ago after my visit to Adastral Park.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Ah - shows how little I know about these things. So the telephone will run over IP?

Looks like BT would have to spend billions to convert the likes of me.

Re: 200Mbit coming soon? (According to a survey)
 

Or basement in my case.