Does anyone know yet?

[Sebby]

[zappaDPJ]

That's a pretty poor report from thinkbroadband and somewhat inaccurate. There have been FTTC connections to that exchange for some months. I believe it's one of three exchanges that have been trialling the technology prior to a larger scale rollout for a while.

Why are there no details of the new download speeds? The one piece of information everybody is champing at the bit for and he doesn't give it  

[Sebby]

I agree - it does seem like a major omission.

[zappaDPJ]

Here's some data from one of the first FTTC trials. Looks like it's not all roses although the potential is clearly there.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/aaisp/3676774-fttc-stats.html

27/07/09 06:51 32202.52 Kbps 1812.61 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

26/07/09 19:30 28086.88 Kbps 1737.21 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

26/07/09 05:45 33029.72 Kbps 1633.16 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 21:59 30796.78 Kbps 1698.36 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 19:28 5255.86 Kbps 1804.39 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 14:49 5256.39 Kbps 1750.68 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 14:35 5258.14 Kbps 1592.53 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 14:34 5257.14 Kbps 1765.76 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 08:42 31854.63 Kbps 1685.96 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 07:06 32608.02 Kbps 1741.24 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

25/07/09 00:09 28468.77 Kbps 1699.07 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

24/07/09 23:38 30255.95 Kbps 1674.87 Kbps x.x.x.x VDSL

I'd guess from the post that these are stats from the retail outlet that they have hooked up in which case I believe the cab is directly outside the shop and the shop is around half a kilometre from the Muswell Hill exchange. I know the area better than the back of my hand so I'm pretty sure that's correct.

[Rik]

Profiles rear their ugly head again.

[zappaDPJ]

They certainly do  

[Rik]

We all know they are not necessary, yet BT can get away with continuing to cripple the services they sell by using them. If they're going to use 5Mb profiles for fibre, they are, effectively guaranteeing they never have to supply the maximum bandwidth.