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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
It's not much more "up to" at all, only a little. The vast majority (70%) of people on 40mbps VDSL have sync speeds of 38mbps or higher, 80% get at least 35mbps, and only 10% get 30mbps or less.
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Surely it depends on what "up to" is supposed to signify? I've always considered that it refers to the fact that you will receive varying speeds which may not {always} be the highest but potentially sometimes could be. In that respect, FTTC is the same as any other product because if everyone who had it decided to download huge files simultaneously then nobody would receive the maximum speed. The available bandwidth isn't 40Mbit * # users.
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Not sure if the 80mbps will be using a fatter profile (at which point it will be more variable) or bonded lines (at which point it won't, and 70%+ of people will get 76mbps+)
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Some information
here which may be relevant, although it doesn't mention "profile". I think I remember reading something else about it a couple of weeks ago:
"The approximate doubling of the FTTC speeds will be possible because BT is increasing the amount of optical spectrum allocated within the fibre services from 7MHz to 17MHz, the spokesman said. "We don't need any new hardware — it's just tweaking the network," he noted, adding that this made the upgrade almost cost free.
BT did not launch its FTTC services at the higher speed because it did not at the time have permission to do so from the NICC, the UK's network interoperability technical forum, BT's spokesman said. Nick Ireland, who heads up the NICC's testing working group and is also BT's UK industry liaison, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that this permission was granted about a week ago."