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Originally Posted by keepitretro
Measured with wheel 340 meters exactly!
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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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Originally Posted by Peter_
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.
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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.