Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35469629)

Cab's quite a distance to be honest,

looks at least 300mts,

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35470403)

With vectoring on 30a you should be easily able to get about 150Mbps at 300M.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35470700)

...when it eventually gets doubled upgraded...

Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35470900)

Measured with wheel 340 meters exactly!!!

Would 51mb be a bit optimistic?

Originally Posted by keepitretro (Post 35470900)

Measured with wheel 340 meters exactly!

Originally Posted by Peter_ (Post 35470918)

My cabinet is more than 400 metres away out of line of site and I never have any speed issues because unlike BT copper cabling distance does not matter.

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35470750)

VM will announce some more jam tomorrow which might just might start getting delivered a year or so after the announcement. My VM area doubling date is currently set for March-August 2013 - any bets on which end of that timescale it will be if they actually meet it at all.

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35470951)

The actual cable may not follow a direct line path. For instance I'm on the same side of the road as my cab but the drop cable comes in from a pole the other side of the road. From what I've seen most people get better than their estimates - probably BT deliberately give estimates that are low so they don't get complaints.

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I think most people who move from VM to FTTC do so to reduce jitter and packet loss and increase upstream rather than worry about the top end Mbps which VM STM will crop off anyway after half an hour or less of full speed usage at most times people want to use their connections.

FTTC may still be cable length dependent but a lot less so than ADSL as the lengths are so much less. The rest of the technology seems to knock spots off VM cable at the moment as BT and Sky, unlike VM, don't seem to be running their network at insane utilisation rates at peak times.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35470969)

Incidentally BT have been completely bang on time with their speed upgrades on FTTC so far.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 35471033)

even off peak utilisation can be high on VM, a 100mbit customer on VMs forums is seeing congestion at 9.20am which VM staff have told him they see nothing wrong and I also see jitter at early hours of the day indicating utilisation is still high enough to cause jitter. My speeds are only now consistently fast after about 2-3am and before about midday. Other hours it varies too much and at weekends its more like 9am before speeds drop off.

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you sure? lots of situations where estimated live data is pushed back 3 months at a time multiple times. My own area has missed its original sept 2012 date and new estimated date is now dec 2012.

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35471109)

Yes cable can deliver but for many it simply doesn't. Mines fine right now but it has been poor in the past.

My main gripe with VM is the huge delay between announcing speed doubling and actually delivering it. For me it's no big deal as I bypassed the wait by upgrading to a speed doubled product but probably millions of existing customers are getting a worse deal than new customers as they are paying the same price but getting half the speed - or sometimes more if they've neglected to visit the car boot sale known as retentions internally recently.

I was going to leave VM for BT Infinity but Openreach CBA to actually turn up and do the install so I cancelled and upgraded with VM instead. If the poor performance I've seen before returns I'll give them another chance.

Originally Posted by ethan103 (Post 35471068)

I pretty much get full speeds all day everyday.

Ping is rick solid online too with 9-15ms ping ...

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks (Post 35471109)

Yes cable can deliver but for many it simply doesn't.

Originally Posted by carlwaring (Post 35471135)

Same here.


Probably the same here too, but I never measure that :)

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Care to put a figure on that? Last time I checked, official figures were that 66% of their customers were getting the headline speed.


A fair point.