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Anyone know what the FUP is for BT Fibre lines? Should be able to move from LLU (14-15Mbps) to fibre of close to 35+Mbps later this month. However, O2 llu obviously has quite a generous FUP policy and so would like to know what the hit here will be.

I'm hoping its not the 100GB they have on their non-fibre lines, since they are trying to compete with Virgin Media.

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There was supposed to be tiered pricing all the way upto truly unlimited but I haven't seen mention of it in awhile so I'm guessing its probably still the crappy 100Gig/throttled to hell thing.

EDIT: Can't see a stated limited in the FUP anywhere but spoken to a couple of people on BT Infinty and they say its the same as BT Total Broadband - they get traffic managed at peaktime (4pm til midnight) for 30days if they exceed 100gig.
 
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Okay, apparently it is still at 100gigs. Afterwards you are throttled from 5pm to 12am.

Unlike Virgin Media however, you can't simply time downloads to off-peak periods as they count towards the 100gigs.

A shame really, especially considering that there doesn't seem to be a way of other companies trying to use these lines in an LLU fashion.
 
Might wanna look at some of the other companies providing it such as AAISP - a bit more expensive but they tend to only count peaktime useage towards your allowance. AAISP is a business orientated ISP so their peaktime is 9am til 6pm if you use it outside those hours it can be very cheap.
 
Rroff said:
Might wanna look at some of the other companies providing it such as AAISP - a bit more expensive but they tend to only count peaktime useage towards your allowance. AAISP is a business orientated ISP so their peaktime is 9am til 6pm if you use it outside those hours it can be very cheap.
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Very pricey peak time usage though.

100gigs peak is £170+.

edit: although their peak is a nicer 9am-6pm mon-fri

Even 30GB peak considering that is £60.
 
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Yeah but if you do most of your downloading outside their peaktime 9-6 then its quite reasonable ( barely use 5gig during 9-6 in an entire month) - bit annoying tho if you've got someone who doesn't care and decides to download an entire game on steam at 10am using your entire allowance in one day.
 
Rainmaker said:
Are they serious? FTTC, a 'next gen' network, finally 'competition' for VM... with 100GB cap, shaped and throttled all to hell?

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It's not a next gen network, it's *exactly* the same network used for 21CN broadband. The only large scale consumer network in the country which could be reasonable called next gen is Be/o2's (or the old homechoice network technically qualifies too)
 
It's a BT product. It will never be any good. ;)

Check out the IDNet & Zen packages. You will have to be willing to spend ££. It may be best to stick with LLU for the time being.
 
God you lucky people that can get 24mb, let alone the new FTTC, half the bloody country is still on 8mb.....
I'd just be glad to see the day where i can download above 1mb/s (currently i do 700-800), let alone the 4mb/s you could do on 35mb....
 
seekdestroy said:
God you lucky people that can get 24mb, let alone the new FTTC, half the bloody country is still on 8mb.....
I'd just be glad to see the day where i can download above 1mb/s (currently i do 700-800), let alone the 4mb/s you could do on 35mb....
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Count your self lucky, there is many people out that that will kill for 8mb line, most are on lines lower than 2mbs.
 
Yeah i know, but it's still fustrating, especially all these people with access to virgin media on 50mb and there still people struggling to watch iplayer. The government really needs to act before the digital divide widens even more :P
 
I am dreading going back to my parents house over the summer at my student house we have Virgin 20mb at my parents on a good day they get 2mb...

AND they live in a virgin media area and still stay with BT! argh I despair!
 
Locky said:
Count your self lucky, there is many people out that that will kill for 8mb line, most are on lines lower than 2mbs.
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Yep - I'm on 2Mbps here :/ I can get up to 3 on the line but it's not worth paying for the 'up to 8Mb' package.
The speed itself isn't too bad since I only have big downloads going when I sleep anyway - more concerning is the performance issues I get in the evening, TF2 is pretty much unplayable thanks to packet loss / lag spikes.


By the way, some interesting info on FTTC here.
Apparently your sync speed depends on how many other FTTC users are on that cab, early adopters getting 35Mbps+ now will only get around 20Mbps once the cab is only a third full. God knows what they'll be on once everyone moves over.
 
Zarf said:
By the way, some interesting info on FTTC here.
Apparently your sync speed depends on how many other FTTC users are on that cab, early adopters getting 35Mbps+ now will only get around 20Mbps once the cab is only a third full. God knows what they'll be on once everyone moves over.
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To be honest I think that's rubbish until it's confirmed by someone credible, sync speed has nothing to do with contention in any form, the only way sync speed would change with contention is if BT are being very cheap about their DSLAMs, their cabling or were artificially limiting to avoid contention.

That's before moving onto the fact that people need to get used to contention, it's the only way you're getting decent speed connections without paying hundreds for them, you can't have a dedicated 40Mb path to transit through their core network, it costs too much!
 
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