Hi,
Yes absolutely. Vectoring is at the forefront of our watchful eye. As Locky correctly states wewould need a card u/g. Although the g.vector hardware has been pretty much designed and is ready, the standard I believe that for widespread use in the UK, its still undergoing testing.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/04/bt-confirm-first-uk-trial-areas-for-superfast-broadband-fttc-vectoring-tech.html
Its annoying because we had to order a card without vectoring as its not quite ready! We will definitely replace as and when zyxel make one available....
It seems to be a mystery to everyone on how much extra speed it will give us but looking around the globe at test results it seems pretty promising....
Virtually eliminating FEXT and NEXT and having good quality .5mm copper lines (ours are all CW 1128 unarmored and ducted on the D side (about 8y old) I am hoping our offered speed range would be a more respectable 100 to 50 meg over our 500m to 950m range we have.
There is a number of 50 pair cables leaving our PCP on the D side so I suppose its how many other VDSL disturbers there is in your pair. Our trials so far have found our ADSL on park has no detrimental effect on the VDSL but the VDSL does affect the ADSL. To comply with OFCOM we will have to apply a given DPBO (downstream power back off) profile in the 0-1.1Mhz range to minimize this. We don't need to worry between 1.1-2.2Mhz as we have no ADSL2+ on site!
Also FYI we are all between 3.3km and 3.8km from the exchange cable length and people currently get a range of 3.5-6.5Meg so even without vectoring yet we are hoping for an uplift (written as a multiplier in BT's FTTC PCP Spreadsheet as a multiplier) of 9 or 10.
Locky, the modems we will have and will be distributing are Zyxel VMG1312 routers which yes - all report stats without any unlocking!! We will be putting a preconfig on them so its an easy plug and play self install... we are currently still researching the following two issues....
1. The best filtering to use... obviously there is the iplate but if all internal wiring is isolated pretty much any ADSL filter works well.
2. The fact we may have to replace incorrectly installed CCA or CCS cable for the last few meters in peoples properties.
Unconfirmed at the moment but...
If people will sign to a 24 month contract there will be no initial charge. Alternatively they will have to buy their modem which we believe is reasonable however we may make a small charge for sorting out / optimising the path to their master socket if they wish or it is needed...