New fiber optic BT broadband £19.00 per month

setter · 21 Jan 2010 at 16:39

Just ran speedtest on my bt connection.

This is about the best ive managed at this time of the evening, gets steadily worse as the day goes on. Due to living in a small rural village i can only dream of a 40mb connection for the time being.

Locky · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:17

mr_x_plosion said:
I don't think this will be available in many places yet.

My town is due to get FTTC by March this year, fingers crossed.

I dont understand why burton on trent doesn't see any decent services, the exchange is massive with 30k homes and 2000+ business connected to it.

nichorob · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:23

It's available in my area now apparently. Can get 4mb with ADSL2+ but 18mb with this infinity. Quite a jump. Will be sticking with my 20mb VM cable though.

neologan · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:27

Oh how I've been waiting for FTTC to roll out. This is just the start, we all knew it would begin with a BT ISP. I'm waiting for Be and o2 to get this sorted, i'll only move to an ISP that's proven it doesn't throttle or have limits. Fun times ahead, especially with 10mbit upload

My exchange is already enabled, but they haven't done the cabinet work yet. I think a month from now I'll be able to place an order to someone.

shinester184 · 21 Jan 2010 at 17:55

Sounds great. Shame I'm stuck on my > 1mbps connection =/

lol - it's insanely slow sometimes

dave-lew99 · 21 Jan 2010 at 18:05

Dear me, seems some confusion going on.

BT's checker seems to be a standard checker based on line length from the exchange, not a special FTTC checker.

You will not have fibre to the premesis in this. It'll be VHDSL from the cab to the premesis over copper. Cisco et al will have to produce (if they don't already) suitable WICs for this.

It is only available in the areas there they have installed fibre to the cab, which is not everywhere. And finally, they are required by regulations to open up the wholesale access to competing networks.

nichorob · 21 Jan 2010 at 18:21

dave-lew99 said:
You will not have fibre to the premesis in this. It'll be VHDSL from the cab to the premesis over copper. Cisco et al will have to produce (if they don't already) suitable WICs for this.

Its telling me I can order now with a 5 day estimated activation time so I would assume so.

wij · 21 Jan 2010 at 18:23

A few specialist providers like AAISP have been selling services over FTTC for some time now in the areas that it covers.

muon · 21 Jan 2010 at 19:21

I believe FTTH/FTTC connections can be used by LLU providers.

So if you are getting fibre and have an LLU exchange (most likely considering where it is being rolled out), looking at BT's prices, ISPs like O2 will undercut Virgin's 50Mb by quite a bit.

BT Unlimited option 3 is £25 and BT infinity unlimited is £25. So here's hoping that o2/be will offer upto 40mbps for their current prices.

muon · 21 Jan 2010 at 19:29

Someone has mapped the roll-outs up to autumn 2010.

http://www.buckconsult.co.uk/fttx/

Be warned, creator has said it isn't a perfect mapping atm.

kkbigal · 21 Jan 2010 at 19:49

growse said:
2 Questions:

1) How long will Fibre be BT only? Will they do an LLU-like thing to allow other providers to use the network?

There are already some ISPs reselling FTTC packages. I noticed Andrews & Arnold had the option on their site. Their unit reselling scheme certainly whacked up the price if you intended to use it during peak hours

fail at the internets · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:21

checker says max i can get is 6mb fail.

alex24 · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:22

Max I can get is 9 mbit, pretty respectable for ADSL. Very tempting since virgin media has been total and utter ******** for the last 3 months.

NathanE · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:42

Looks awesome. Shame it won't be coming to my crappy little town any time soon.

Kanpai · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:51

Sounds too good to be true;probably is

muon · 21 Jan 2010 at 23:26

NathanE said:
Looks awesome. Shame it won't be coming to my crappy little town any time soon.

You can't be too far away from the exchange in such a town. Can you get ADSL2+ connections? Because I'd imagine that would be close to 20Mbps from most parts of Haverhill.

[TW]Fox · 21 Jan 2010 at 23:51

20Gb limit? On a 40mbit connection?

So you can use it for just over an hour a month before you exhuast the limit?

kkbigal · 22 Jan 2010 at 02:39

Apparently the checker does NOT work for FTTC yet - we got off the phone from BT who said they're still building the web site for it.

Yamahahahahaha · 22 Jan 2010 at 07:45

[TW]Fox;15793091 said:
20Gb limit? On a 40mbit connection?

So you can use it for just over an hour a month before you exhuast the limit?

Better than expected then! - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=15073656&postcount=3

Does it make anyone else laugh that they're still restricting upload bandwidth?
They have a piece of fibre there which should do 1Gbit duplex, yet for no apparent reason they're capping it at 40/10. How lovely of them!
I want BT to wipe my bottom too, but maybe they'd also do that too slowly and lopsided for no apparent reason.

I think they should change all the logos and branding to "British Telecom - Run By Accountants" with a vastly overpaid executive grinning whilst holding wads of cash.

dave-lew99 · 22 Jan 2010 at 08:23

Yamahahahahaha said:
They have a piece of fibre there which should do 1Gbit duplex, yet for no apparent reason they're capping it at 40/10. How lovely of them!

FFS!!!

Fibre is to the cabinet not the the premises!!!!

This means VHDSL from the cabinet to the premises. Under ideal conditions that's 100mbit duplex - max 300 metres. That degrades severely as distance increases. So 40mbit is pretty reasonable really.

As for capping uploads, bandwidth is expensive, can you imagine if all ISPs suddenly had to backhaul the same amount of data in uploads that they currently do in downloads?!