Freeola 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps FTTP

[bulldog147]

Freeola Launch 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps Openreach UK Broadband Plans

Internet and web hosting provider Freeola has informed ISPreview that they've just become the latest on a small list of UK ISPs to launch consumer home broadba

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[Slogan]

Noticed EE carrying 1.6Gbps for the first time yesterday, when I was pricing up for a renewal. Good to see the speeds creeping up.

Does anyone know what is the theoretical maximum of FTTP?

 

[robj20]

Noticed EE carrying 1.6Gbps for the first time yesterday, when I was pricing up for a renewal. Good to see the speeds creeping up.

Does anyone know what is the theoretical maximum of FTTP?

It's many Tbps but they keep increasing it as they find new methods. It's very future proof id say.

Edit. Quick Google and the current record is 301 Tbps

 

[ChrisD.]

Until the upload is increased, it's a very expensive step up over 900/100 you can widely get elsewhere.

 

[Slogan]

It's many Tbps but they keep increasing it as they find new methods. It's very future proof id say.

Edit. Quick Google and the current record is 301 Tbps

Thanks. I did look it up a few weeks back just out of curiosity but couldn't find anything conclusive. Seems like there might be a bit of headroom yet then

 

[Orcvader]

Thanks. I did look it up a few weeks back just out of curiosity but couldn't find anything conclusive. Seems like there might be a bit of headroom yet then

On a more technical explanation, the current standard Openreach is using is GPON, which theoretically can do up to 2.4Gbit down and 1.2Gbit up. They're actually lagging behind as a lot of altnets and even VM (via Nexfibre) uses a newer standard called XG-PON which can do 10Gbit on both down and up. There are faster standards and luckily still use the same fibre, so the infrastructure will already be there and future proof.

 

[The1nonly1]

A lot more ISP's are offering these speeds. The company I'm with, Lila Connect, currently offer 2.5Gb down, it doesn't give upload in the description but they do say "uploads that are 100x times faster than the average speeds in the UK" although they say this on the 1Gb option also. I have !Gb up and down and it's more than enough.

 

[TheVoice]

Considering the speeds they were eventually able to get out of flimsy copper wiring which was never really designed for data transmission in the first place, the fibre cabling is probably pretty future-proof for a while yet. I know older Hyperoptic installs used ethernet to each flat so they could encounter a hard limit at some point, but even that's probably a long way off from being an issue.

 

[Slogan]

On a more technical explanation, the current standard Openreach is using is GPON, which theoretically can do up to 2.4Gbit down and 1.2Gbit up. They're actually lagging behind as a lot of altnets and even VM (via Nexfibre) uses a newer standard called XG-PON which can do 10Gbit on both down and up. There are faster standards and luckily still use the same fibre, so the infrastructure will already be there and future proof.

Very useful, thanks. When I had looked up the 'limit' originally, I could only really find the limit of the current retail options, rather than the medium of the fibre itself.

But it sounds as though from your response and others that it's well future-proofed.

 

[robj20]

I think going forward it's latency that's going to be the bottleneck.

 

[Delta3D]

Does anyone know what is the theoretical maximum of FTTP?

YouFibre are providing 8gbps now, albeit at cost of £100 a month.

Issue with maximums is it's pretty dependant on the kit either end of the fibre line, after 10gbps there's a huge cost to performance increase.

 

[Duke]

Freeola - thats a name I've not seen in 15+ years!

 

[KIA]

One of the few providers to offer 1 month contracts.

 

[Steveocee]

It's a shame these new profiles don't have a nicely increased upload speed. Previous fastest 1000/115 always seemed a little lean but 1.2 and 1.8 with only 120 upload is even more restrictive given that if you're going for these faster profiles you're likely going to leverage more bandwidth in both directions.

 

[bulldog147]

Freeola - thats a name I've not seen in 15+ years!

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