FTTC from IDNET

[sof2er]

BT Engineer came today and I got connected, his tester gave 39.66 Mbit down and 10 Mbit up to the cabinet.

Atm I'm getting the following:


My cabling is actually reducing my speed by a bit, I've used a different cable and had constant 39 Mbit, and this cable gave less dl/upload. Unfortunately the other cable is short and won't work so I'm buying a new cat6 cable tommorrow or something.

Pings are 20 to UK and 30 to most other places.

Anyone knows if interleaving exists on fibre lines?

[Glenn]

I don't know, you and Joe are on the cutting edge of ADSL broadband.

[sof2er]

does anyone know if fttc has interleaving?

Would be sweet to get my ping even lower if possible altough I doubt scotland to london can go any less then 14-16 ms

[Glenn]

Drop support an email or call them tomorrow.

[Technical Ben]

I don't know, you and Joe are on the cutting edge of ADSL broadband.

Can we even call it ADSL when it's Fibre? (Wiki says it's for copper )

[Lance]

Its still copper from the cabinet to the house 

[pctech]

The spec is actually VDSL (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line)

[Steve]

I was looking up VDSL and VDSL2 the former came out as 'very high bit rate' and the latter 'very high speed' It was wiki though

[pctech]

When I get a sec I will look up the official International Telecoms Union (ITU) specs.

[sof2er]

Interleaving is not enable on my circuit, so it's all fine!

[Aaron]

Did you get your ping any lower since? I thought 20-30ms was high for a fibre connection, considering I average 23ms to idnet.net on a rural adsl max line which is interleaved.

[pctech]

Here are the spec docs on the ITU site

http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.993.2/en

[esh]

I'm pretty sure there has to be a bottom line in terms of ping that you simply can't go under. To idnet.net I get 8ms currently on ADSL. If you do a traceroute, my router (the first hop) is a fraction of a millisecond, but the next hop is already at 8ms, so pretty much 99% of my ping time in this instance is between my router and the telehouse router. I guess that is just the inherent DSL latency induced by processing at the exchange. I'd be curious to know any more specific details though, anyone?

Edit: the physical limitation on the transfer of data to the server (~50 miles) is 0.27 milliseconds, which is obviously the absolute hard limit unless you want to shift your ADSL router to relativistic speeds.

[sof2er]

Have to take in mind I live in scotland and the telehouse for IDNet is probably located near london? so my ping times won't really get better than 15-20 ms.

[pctech]

Telehouse is in London.

http://telehouse.net/global-locations/united-kingdom/