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Originally Posted by MUD_Wizard

Link please for BT infinity/FTTP/FTTPoD Gigabit?

BT Infinity, for the third time:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...aster-internet

Widespread availability of FTTPoD due this year:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5...-roll-out.html

FTTPoD 1Gbps already possible, 10Gbps being tested:
http://recombu.com/digital/news/bt-1...rk_M10488.html
http://recombu.com/digital/news/bt-1...rd_M11068.html

You're quoting theoretical maximum communication speed of the network, as if it's the throughput speed a user gets ; it's not by a long shot at the moment.

Well yes and no. No, those are the maximum throughput speeds a user can get, user gets, yes, average speeds are less, but that's the case on every other technology discussed here as well, including VM cable and FTTP.

I would hardly say it's a "long shot" though when people already get the equivalent of 118Mbps - 79Mbps on a phone that is only capable of utilizing 2/3rds of the network. The speeds I see average closer to 50-60Mbps, but again on a phone only capable of using 2/3rd of the network's capacity. I'm yet to see any results from a Cat 4 LTE device though I'm also yet to see any reason why they wouldn't be 50% higher - unless EE decide to implement some sort of per-user speed cap. However as it stands most people's phones do not have the ability to go to full speed, in general only USB dongles can (seeing as Mifi devices with Cat 4 support are in turn limited by wifi speed)

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Another user with an up to 100Mbps phone gets 100.26Mbps, and early demos in stores when it was first released showed 54.80Mbps on a device/network setup with a supposed top speed of 50Mbps.