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Those are CF commit rates Alex.

For whatever reason OR set their's much higher.

However from where I sit I think if anything OR will be more likely to get visible contention as CF are in the midst of rolling out XGS-PON, and OR have the higher takeup.

I assumed they were, they just seem excessively low even for GPON and doubly so that it would be the same for a top-tier ISP vs something more budget friendly.

As for visible contention, its going to be very interesting once I can get OR fastest service to see how peak hours compare to off peak.  Although I have no idea if anyone else is on my PON or not.  Also very odd a symmetrical service has an asymmetrical minimum.

I'll still move to CF in a heartbeat if they ever get round to coming here.  Still in plan but there's barely any roadworks showing up for them any more and it seems no closer than 2 years ago.

All the AAISP FTTP minimum rates are here:

https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/fttp-speeds/

Those are CF commit rates Alex.

For whatever reason OR set their's much higher.

However from where I sit I think if anything OR will be more likely to get visible contention as CF are in the midst of rolling out XGS-PON, and OR have the higher takeup.

That's interesting as everything I read says you should avoid cycling Lead Acid batteries at all costs as every time you do it reduces the health.

Yes, I've seen quite a few different schools of thought on the subject.
My understanding regarding normal lead acid batteries is that deep discharge and prolonged maintenance in a fully discharged state can certainly be harmful and life shortening, I try to avoid either.

On my fairly low spec Oxxtron (Trust) 1000VA UPS I have had to replace the 9 Ah lead acid battery twice to date obtaining just over 2 years life on each, on last replacement a few months ago I took the time to closely monitor the units charge regime over quite a few days as I believed the battery was being over charged and this was possibly contributing to a shorter battery life.
To assist monitoring, I used a 12V bluetooth monitor/recorder module with mobile phone app, directly connected to the battery, found that the charging cycle was tapering off perfectly to practically zero when fully charged so certainly not being over charged.

The failure of the two previous batteries only came to light when power was removed and the UPS output collapsed within a minute or so, attempts to rejuvinate the batteries with a smart charger failed on both occasions, batteries had to be replaced.
So with the current battery and BT monitor in place I intend to periodically discharge/test battery life while being careful not to deep discharge, time will tell if this will produce a longer battery life but should certainly highlight any impending battery failure.   

Yeah AAISP do mention MTU for cityfibre here:
https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1-cityfibre-services/

Gotta love that "committed rate", not much of a commitment to deliver 70/35 on a 1000/1000 connection. That's taking covering your rear a little bit far IMO.

I could understand that on an ISP that sells the service dirt cheap, but at AAISP prices that's not at all appealing.

How many customers do they split onto a single PON for that to ever be likely to happen?

Yeah AAISP do mention MTU for cityfibre here:
https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1-cityfibre-services/

I was getting packet loss again when maxing the line, and my initial fast.com was 870, and 870 repeated.

Earlier by enabling baby jumbo frames, thats up to 940 now, and the packet loss is almost all gone similar to VM.

As was said, seems ONT handles it out of the box.

and very flatulent.

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