Thinking of leaving VM for FTTC

Jarrod

Jarrod

Jarrod

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So the node my Virgin connection is connected to is very over subscribed and has been since the day I signed up, over a year ago. However, it was still a lot better than the 3Mbps ADSL I had access to before that. However, the fix date keeps getting pushed back further and further and as my contract with VM is now up and conveniently BT Infinity and Sky Fibre has just become available at my address, I'm considering switching over. However the downside is the estimate for my address is 40Mbps down and only 6.5Mbps up :*(. I've heard of BT trialing vectoring but not sure how far down the pipeline that is for the consumer, and also not sure if Sky will have access to the same technology. My question really is, or rather my questions are as follows:

Because I'm quite far from the cabinet, will my base latency be similar to what my ADSL latency was back in the day?

Are the estimates that conservative? Can I expect more than what they're estimating?

Which to go for out of BT/Sky?

Am I silly for even considering?

Cheers
 
I know that some of the lines around here, possibly my entire street is aluminium cable, I hope that isn't too drastic of a performance drop compared to copper. Thing is, there's addresses in my street (which is a street of about 20 houses), who are getting estimates of 60, there cant be more than 60meters seperating our houses, and we're all connected to the same cabinet.

I'm itching to move, but the speed drop from an inconsistent 120Mb to a consistent 40Mb seems very severe, 50Mb would suit me much better but I know there isn't much i can do about it. I don't think BT will replace a line just because I want more speed.
 
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