Hi everybody,
I've seen that my exchange will be enabled for BT Infinity "up to 40Mb" on 31 Dec 2010.
http://tinyurl.com/yhvqhalI suppose that this means that every cabinet in the area will get fibre? Or just some cabinets - how to know?
The nearest green BT cabinet is about 400m from my house. So if it's fibred up I'm wondering what speed I'd likely get - anybody any ideas?
If I put 5db 0.4km into the kitz speed estimator for ADSL I get a throughput of 21Mbps
And as Infinity uses VDSL I suppose even a bit faster.
Anybody know anything about the VDSL modem BT will be using and its line monitoring capabilties?
I've got used to monitoring my present connection, and now have statistics going back 14 months.
I'm a bit underwhelmed with my current LLU "up to 24Mb" connection, which achieves about 5.5Mb @ 39dB attenuation, 9dB SNR margin. But it is reliable.
Have considered Virgin cable, but wonder about their reliability, as most of the little plastic cabinets locally are vandalized with their bodies askew exposing the wiring to the elements. The nearest Virgin plastic cabinet is about 400m away. I chatted with a Virgin engineer one day and he told me that their fibre only reaches to some of their big metal cabinets, the nearest fibred one being about 850m away. So any ideas on speed actually achievable with Virgin?
Cheers,
Peter