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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
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.
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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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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Incidentally BT have been completely bang on time with their speed upgrades on FTTC so far.
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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.