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

So what would 200/300MB allow you to do that you can't do now? At some point it becomes pointless.

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

It will allow you to watch VM wave its willy at BT.

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

Except 300mbps is Infinity 4 speed.

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

Available in all of ~160,000 premises nationwide, a large proportion of which, perhaps half or more, were subsidised by taxpayers. :)

Fair to say for the other 99.7% of the country seeing the advertising the comparison in their minds is between VM and Infinity 2.

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

October 2015 VM vs when BT?

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

Probably around when 3.1 goes into testing.

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

really? how interesting

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

So I reckon they virgin is increasing upload channels from 2-4 then can start offering faster up speeds. Looks like I'm gonna commit to another 18months with cable, in that time gfast may be here or even virgin could roll out this RfOG tech or would they go straight to 3.1?

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

Virgin aren't going to overbuild any existing areas with RFoG any time soon. RFoG runs DOCSIS anyways.

Some new build might get RFoG, but will have the same DOCSIS services running on it as existing equipment for now.

DOCSIS 3.1 isn't going to be a big 'thing' in production for a while yet. There is some work to be done on the physical networks, which is in progress, before 3.1 can really shine. Along with that the customer equipment, modems, set top boxes, isn't really there yet.

G.fast will be about in 2016 but delivered to a very, very few premises indeed on a commercial basis, and the form it'll come in is unknown. It may be based out of existing cabinets in which case unless you're very close to yours you're SOOL.

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Much of what you do now but more quickly.

In my own case things like when I want to purchase a PS4 game online in digital format, many of them are >40GB. Were I able to get an ultrafast service I would have more immediate gratification as 40GB at the speed 300Mb has been capped at in the trial would take 17 minutes.

At my current performance on my above-average VDSL it takes 5 times that.

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

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here, but it sounds like you're saying that the g.fast node might be deployed in existing cabs? I don't think that's right, it would completely defeat the purpose of g.fast.
I think it'll be more a case of deployment happens where FTTC is already in place as g.fast is designed to work with FTTC present (or at least, it can account for it without interfering).

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

I was speaking about G.fast in 2016.

This year's pilot will test deployment scenarios and it'll become clearer at that time how Openreach are deploying. I would not be surprised if the 2016/7 financial year deployment is small, as they are still building out for BDUK, and tackling the easier stuff first which means where power and backhaul are easily available.

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

Yuck. I can't see that being particularly great, but what can you do.

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

Wait for them to crack fibre to distribution points and work out how they are going to power the nodes.

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

I vaguely remember reading that one potential method of powering the nodes would be from the customer end, via the "modem".

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

That's a way away. The world's first public demo of a reverse powered G.fast node was only this year.