Hi
Well I've been on FTTP for a number of months now having ditched the VDSL, was lucky enough for 80/20 on VDSL but was only just holding on to that as it had been a continual decline in margin since I joined the cab some years ago, and was getting close to seeing sync speeds affected, was on an ECI cab.
Most days I would check the VDSL stats and had monitoring set up. There were various issues over the years needing some troubleshooting and the occasional post here for advice, in every case when it went down it was nothing to do with my kit and the connection eventually came back on, much to my annoyance after rebooting things and trying spare modems.
FTTP of course is a different type of connection entirely, for a start there are no stats available to monitor from the ONT and little we could do about them if there were, so very much a black box (well white box) that just works. It's not been power cycled since the engineer plugged it in some 60 days ago, no reason to. Had a thunderstorm the other day and FTTP of course was completely unaffected and I didn't need to worry about it. The copper telephone line is disconnected and will likely never be used again.
So FTTP is reliable, fast, and uncomplicated, all the things we want, however I miss just a little xDSL for the insights I had into it's inner workings, watching error-rates, and each time I checked it feeling pleased I'm still not interleaved and still at 80/20 (just), but no I wouldn't go back to it.
What will happen to forums and communities like this when the vast majority of us are on FTTP? I guess they become a thing of the past or talk about something else. I've already noticed a quietening down in forums such as this and others relating to broadband.
If you have FTTP now how is the reliability, do you miss just a little your xDSL and stat monitoring? Perhaps you will not even being reading this as you have little need to visit here to read up on it or see what the latest tips are to optimise it.
Regards
Phil