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Zen is £30 a month for 100gb limit and £75 installation
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100g limit is a bit off putting. Anyone who "needs" 40mb d/l and 10mb u/l would surely easily eat up 100gig in no time.
If you only use 100gig per month then you don't really need fibre in my eyes.
According to an engineer for one of the ISP's, your sync speed depends a lot on how many people are using the service on your cab, as the equipment inside isn't that great. The Sync speeds BT quote are for what you will achieve when the cab modem you are connected to is almost full. They will be installing an additional modem for future signups to the service, but unless they go to the effort of redistributing half the lines from the full modem to the empty one, 21Mb is as good as you'll get.
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Interesting, where did you hear that? Over at thinkbroadband they say it's too tight to fit any more lines in than the 288 it supports as standard, another cab would be needed.
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fi...e-first-full-cabinet.html?view=collapsed&vc=1
Don't think any of them are engineers though.
Presumably as you mentioned they have to put in another roadside cabinet for the second modem/UPS/cooling system set. I don't recall where I read it though. If demand is high enough in the area that they need a second unit I can't see them complaining about the expense of fitting one.
With regards to the news that sync speeds degrade as more people sign up, it was a Plusnet engineer involved in their technical trials of the service, think it was on the Thinkbroadband forums somewhere.
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What complete crap...
A BT cab can have 288 lines installed on it, if more lines are required BT would have to install another cab due size and thermal limits, as the current one is not big enough to take any more line cards.
VDSL can do 100mbs up to about 300 meters then drops off thereafter, so you're telling me that a customer with a 250meter Dside and BT estimate of 33mbs is going to get 33mbs when the customer uncapped would get 100mbs.
Sync speed will not be an issue with FTTC, FUP, usage limits and all other crap will come into play.
A BT cab can have 288 lines installed on it, if more lines are required BT would have to install another cab due size and thermal limits, as the current one is not big enough to take any more line cards.
VDSL can do 100mbs up to about 300 meters then drops off thereafter, so you're telling me that a customer with a 250meter Dside and BT estimate of 33mbs is going to get 33mbs when the customer uncapped would get 100mbs.
Sync speed will not be an issue with FTTC, FUP, usage limits and all other crap will come into play.
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I'm going to meet the people at Bt tower who run the fibre project and if you have any questions I am happy to put it to the guys running the project.
Right so when you said "They will be installing an additional modem for future signups" you meant in a second cabinnet, I thought you were saying in the current one which isn't what I've previously read but it's not a definite conclusion atm. You nearly throw a spanner in the works then
Brilliant,
How many lines can be connected per cabinnet?
What happens to speeds as they fill up?
Once full can extra slots be added into the same cab for more lines and if not can a second cab be added instead?
Why is P2P upload speed capped at 1Mbps permanently?
Can the stats from the VDSL modem be accessed?
All I can think of atm.
Thanks.
288 lines per cab, they are designed for 400 lines but BT are not loading them far.
Out of luck untill BT upgrade or install a new cab.
This hasn't happened yet, so only BT know.
It's to stop you uploading gigs & gigs of porn
No the stats from the modem can not be accessed, but I'm sure when new routers come out the stats will be open as current adsl is.
Out of luck untill BT upgrade or install a new cab.
This hasn't happened yet, so only BT know.
It's to stop you uploading gigs & gigs of porn
No the stats from the modem can not be accessed, but I'm sure when new routers come out the stats will be open as current adsl is.
One more for you borich_planner,
When can the 60/15 Mbps upgrade be expected, would the DSLAM need upgrading to support it?
Cheers.
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I'm going 22nd December so if anything else comes up let me know. Just gotta hope the people who run the project know what they are talking about
I'm going 22nd December so if anything else comes up let me know. Just gotta hope the people who run the project know what they are talking about
Who are you meeting? BT Retail, Wholesale or Openreach?
I'd like to know this as well. Also what's the maximum line length from the cabinet that will be able to support 60/15 speeds.
Finally, will customers already on the top 40/10 package be upgraded to 60/15 or will it cost extra?
That's pretty unlucky, I'm in Chesterfield as well and get an estimate of 30/7mb. I'm hoping for the full 40/10 but I'm not exactly sure which cabinet I'm connected to.
If the website below is accurate then I'm connected to a cab which is further away than the one nearest to my house which seems strange.
http://staging.trefor.net/tech-pages/availability-checker/
