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[SecTSys]

[kitz]

On the face of it it does seem rather stupid, but I believe the 100Mb product is FTTP rather than FTTC hence the different pricing structure.

[Black Sheep]

The answer is that not everyone runs a home server, or for that matter is actually that interested in vast upload speeds. The business model BT are introducing is aimed at the wider target audience, not individually tailored packages. You can have a tailored package if you like, but you will pay more dinero for the privelage. Also, until the laws of physics can be altered, it will always be an 'up to 100 meg' service (or any other rate adaptive DSL).

In essence, (and I can't quote actual figures), I would guess that 80 per-cent of the populous don't even know what their speed is, nor even care. So long as it does what they want they're happy.

[Black Sheep]

I thought the FTTP service was offering 330 meg

[Bald_Eagle1]

On the face of it it does seem rather stupid, but I believe the 100Mb product is FTTP rather than FTTC hence the different pricing structure.

If it really is FTTP, then I might be interested as my FTTC connection only achieves around 28Mb/4.5Mb or 33Mb/2Mb due to losses over the distance from the cabinet of around 1km.

(Note the higher upload speed actually lowers the download speed).

As I understand matters, FTTP speed would not suffer from the same losses over 1km.

If my FTTC connection could actually sync at & sustain 80/20 (with even higher attainable rates as spare margin), I would have no interest whatsoever in a FTTP service, even at 330Mb DS.

Not all FTTC users live close to the cabinet.

[kitz]

[Bald_Eagle1]

[kitz]

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[GunJack]

How many people at home need such ridiculously high speeds anyway ?? What are they doing with it ?? 

[SecTSys]

  give you 2 guesses
a) downloading stuff
b) gaming

[verkosh]

Gaming is the main use for such high speeds.

If the rumours of the next gen consoles being mainly download based games are true then fast speeds will be needed to download around 20 gig games.

Not that isps will like such downloads.

[Bald_Eagle1]

When I work from home, speed is very important.

I use a VPN connection to access the office servers, that is quite slow anyway.

The slower my connection, the slower the VPN throughput (probably pro-rata but I haven't investigated the exact ratio).

I really do see the difference when opening/saving files that are stored on the office server(s) from the rare occasions that my connection has synced at 33Mb to 35Mb, compared to the current & more usual 27Mb to 28.5Mb.

Also, the differences can be seen when just browsing the internet, although some of that could be due to latency as Interleaving is ON.

[GunJack]

Gaming is the main use for such high speeds.

If the rumours of the next gen consoles being mainly download based games are true then fast speeds will be needed to download around 20 gig games.

Not that isps will like such downloads.

I think any ISP which has such users on limited download packages will love it...think of what they'll charge for all those extra GBs

[SecTSys]

LMAO - Yeah they will love the extra Income won't they, (Thank god i am on an Unlimited package! )

Still as i run a home server system that has 2 different game servers running, and a Media server (thanks to Subsonic) I kinda need the upload speed more than the download!!!

I would love to see BT Offer a 50 / 50 Package, would make a huge difference to my whole network. the Download speed is not my concern as you can guess...

I have one server running Subsonic in a dedicated Fashion, and 3 minecraft worlds running, (1 open and 2 private ones)  Then the Other Server system i have set up is running a Dedicated MW3 Server. (Trust me that was a pain to set up!)

so yes as much as the download speed is great in regards to others connecting to my MW3 or Media servers over the Internet, my upload at 17 mbps gets rather cramped... and i often disable the Media server in order to game on my network,

What doesn't help i will admit is on The computer i use to play games or do my work on. I also have a Fully Encrypted FTP Server, and i am using this regularly for work and such. grabbing tools and that that i need when it comes to fixing computers if i am out and about on a job!

so One can begin to see why i would like to have a better upload speed offered by BT even if it means the download speed is sacrificed a little.