Anyone have this broadband product yet and what yer think?

We can but dream of when it'll be available. FTTH would be better though!

We can but dream of when it'll be available. FTTH would be better though!

FTTC is plenty fast enough, Up to 40meg. Fibre to your house would cost you about £7k. I'm surprised non of you techy guys don't have it yet.

There is a FTTC install not that far away from me, and apparently it does not work properly.....

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/8277498.Charlton_Down_broadband_row/

Anything synchronous >=10mb would do me.

Anything synchronous >=10mb would do me.

Symmetric?

It's flaky at best.

My area was one of the first in the UK to be converted, and they have had problems according to a neighbour how contracts to BT.

I'll stick with Virgin thanks

65 Meg most of the time on a 50 meg line , soon to be 100

I'll stick with Virgin thanks

65 Meg most of the time on a 50 meg line , soon to be 100

Yup... with you there.

The only reason we went with them is because BT wanted to charge £120 to fit a line to the new house which already had cable to it... yeah right!

Were only on the 10mb service but constantly get the full speed... unlike on a BT line before... up to 8meg= 1meg!

Symmetric?

Maybe.

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Maybe.

I agree, anyway. Give me a static IP and about 15Mb/s symmetric and I'll be happy for a couple of years.

Symmetric?

Either term is correct.

As FTTC is new there will be a few teething problems. Apparently the whole network went down on Monday for a few hours. The PSTN line will still work when FTTC goes tits up as it's still copper cable all the way to the exchange.

I have BT option 2 and i was looking into upgradeing to infinity but didn't know anyone who had to to ask questions about it. Is it worth doing then. I get around 4.5meg speed which seems plenty quick for me.

I left BT as it throttled my line from 6mb to 700K if I used any streaming sites like iplayer of You Tube. Went with SKY and now have 7mb all day long and no throttling

I left BT as it throttled my line from 6mb to 700K if I used any streaming sites like iplayer of You Tube. Went with SKY and now have 7mb all day long and no throttling

Sorry Lady E , I'll stick to my 10M Virgin one ,with my phone line - till the ads stop going on about BB for less than £20 - (and omitting the fact that you need a PHONE LINE @ £11 )

FTTC is plenty fast enough, Up to 40meg. Fibre to your house would cost you about £7k. I'm surprised non of you techy guys don't have it yet.

One reason for that...The ISP is BT.

Luton is supposed to be a trial town for FTTC, and lots of new pillars have sprung up around the place. No sign of the service here, though, so I have to stick to my ropy 1.2-1.7 ADSL connection and no cable! And I live less than 3 miles from the centre of a town of 50,000 people.......

Phil

FTTC has been on my exchange (fallings park) since April! Shame you can only get it on BT. Ill stick with my 5.5MB on ADSL2 on a decent ISP for the moment.

FTTC has been on my exchange (fallings park) since April! Shame you can only get it on BT. Ill stick with my 5.5MB on ADSL2 on a decent ISP for the moment.

Anyone would think you hated BT

I used to be with virgin.net but fell out with them as they throttled my connection for 2 days, because I'd exceeded my bandwidth allocation for that period. I went from 2Mb to 33kbps, the speed of a fax!

I exchanged serious words that evening, demanding that it was restored as I was doing upgrade work on 3 PCs & they said No, so next day I asked for the MAC, joined Plusnet & haven't looked back since, I've been enjoying speeds between 3 & 6,5Mb ever since! Very happy with that considering the distance I live from the exchange & I'm out in the sticks.