Annoyed - Never available in those areas that actually could do with it
@RRM wrote:
I'm really fed up, long time before we got adsl, fibre...
...why can't BT prioritise areas that have poor connectivity first?
While I believe Mook is correct, your fibre speeds don't look that bad judging from the estimates for your line.
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| VDSL Range A (Clean) | 27.2 | 19.5 | 5 | 3.1 | 17.8 | Available | -- | -- | Yes | -- |
| VDSL Range B (Impacted) | 21.6 | 11.4 | 3.8 | 1.2 | 8.4 | Available | -- | -- | Yes | -- |
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| FTTP on Demand | 330 | 30 | -- | Available | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
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| WBC ADSL 2+ | Up to 2.5 | -- | 1 to 4 | Available | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
My ADSL speeds were around the same as your estimates and I only got Fibre availability around a year ago, capable of roughly 30Mbps currently.
There are also plenty of areas with no fibre availability, some with even poorer ADSL capability.
Yes my speeds are acceptable but the annoyance is people who are already getting 80mbs or there abouts suddenly can have 330/30.
My point was couldn't BT (or others) look at those areas where they have poor ADSL etc as you mention first or even in parallel.
I understand the economics but there must be some trade off that can be reached, do some high demand areas and some low???
Finally if that's my exchange and I am reading it correctly it would imply we could have FTTP? I couldn't see this a few days ago????
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@RRM wrote:
Finally if that's my exchange and I am reading it correctly it would imply we could have FTTP? I couldn't see this a few days ago????
FTTP on Demand is shown as available, a product which Plusnet do not offer due to the very high costs to the customer.
@RRM wrote:
the annoyance is people who are already getting 80mbs or there abouts suddenly can have 330/30.
My point was couldn't BT (or others) look at those areas where they have poor ADSL etc as you mention first or even in parallel.
From my experience, although not unheard of it's very rare that FTTC enabled areas get WBC FTTP enabled. The couple I've seen have been where FTTC has had estimates of single digit figures or low teens.
The vast majority of areas I've seen pop up on with WBC FTTP have been either ADSL only areas (Some, like my house with only 20CN ADSL 8MB MAX available) or new builds that are FTTP only.
@RRM wrote:
Finally if that's my exchange and I am reading it correctly it would imply we could have FTTP? I couldn't see this a few days ago????
I'm afraid not with us on the trial. FTTPoD isn't something we offer and is considerably more expensive to both provision and then continue to provide.
We did previously get a few customers on this some time ago, however some of the excess construction charges (That the customer would have to pay) we saw got to the 10's of Thousands.
Some of the costs (Wholesale/With other ISPs) were discussed over in this thread: https://community.plus.net/t5/Fibre-To-The-Premises-trial/Can-I-join-the-FTTP-Trial-Please/m-p/14601...