Fibre To The Cabinet.. FTTC

Guardsman

Does FTTC increase ADSL speeds ?

PiratePete

Just had it installed and was lucky to get 5 Mb download on ADSL.
I now get about 70 Mb on average.

greyteam1959

Hope the same happens for us....FTTC is supposed to be up & running 31/03/2013.
BT Openreach have put a big new cabinet up in the last few weeks so heres hoping !!

ukcarper

mervyn11 wrote: »

Hope the same happens for us....FTTC is supposed to be up & running 31/03/2013.
BT Openreach have put a big new cabinet up in the last few weeks so heres hoping !!

Wouldn't hold your breath where I am they keep putting date back.

savemoney

Yes it should do as only main factor that would slow a service down is the distance between you and the cabinet rather than at present to the exchange and or the ISP

Before I used adsl2 using LLU and I got around 12-13mb/s

adsl 2 LLU




FTTC

greyteam1959

ukcarper wrote: »

Wouldn't hold your breath where I am they keep putting date back.

They have been huddled up in the new cabinet for weeks now so I presume it must be about to go ahead.

greyteam1959

savemoney wrote: »

Yes it should do as only main factor that would slow a service down is the distance between you and the cabinet rather than at present to the exchange and or the ISP

Before I used adsl2 using LLU and I got around 12-13mb/s

adsl 2 LLU




FTTC

Blimey.......rocket fuelled !!!

savemoney

I paid before 4th Jan £29 for adsl unlimited now pay £9.99 for 6 months then its £19.99 after that.

withabix

You WILL notice a big difference with streaming, online games and downloads.

You WON'T notice much difference with web page loading times (unless you are changing from a VERY slow connection).

Guardsman

I know there is a massive increase in the more expensive fibre optic broadband package. I was wondering if it had any effect on the existing ADSL speeds.

kwikbreaks

The presence of FTTC has no effect at all on your existing ADSL service other than the remote chance it may slow down because the backhaul from the exchange could have higher utilisation if FTTC users start consuming more bandwidth.