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[Black Sheep]

Rizla, I reiterate, you will benefit from the full 40/2, 40/10 or 80/20 product, if your line length is as you say.
I don't understand the jargon in the rest of the post, I'm afraid ?? I'm not that clued up with the engineering side of Fibre.

Good luck with whoever you go with.

[guest]

Rizla, I reiterate, you will benefit from the full 40/2, 40/10 or 80/20 product, if your line length is as you say.

The thing is that the estimate is now what you are signing up to so the bottom line is that's what you are paying for. Nobody is going to look at a problem unless (AFAIK) its 50% below the estimate.

I'll pass I think, not all that keen on signing up to a moving target which (as per estimate) costs me nearly 4 times the headline price for less than 3 times the speed and is only going to degrade as more circuits are connected.

Anyway, enough said on this I reckon. You pays your money etc....

[biohead]

[Black Sheep]

Sorry for late response, Rizla. With my super-fast FTTC connection, I whizzed straight past this thread. I'll make an effort to speak more slooooowly, for our hick cousins. 

[Black Sheep]

Cheers, biohead. The tenner's in the post, bud.

[guest]

If it makes you feel any better rizla, and to show another side of the story - my distance to the fibre cab is just over 400m (by footpath, with BT duct covers regularly along the way). I have one of the Samknows whiteboxes constantly testing my connection which always reports back at around 69-70mb.  And I reiterate, thats on a line thats in the 400m region. BT Checker estimates around 52mb.

I do appreciate this and yeah the line can go faster than the estimate.

Howver with the risk of being repetitive :

I AM NOT SIGNING UP TO A MOVING TARGET WHICH HAS REDUCED BY 27% BEFORE THEY EVEN SUPPLY THE SERVICE.

As per the BT rules my line can go down to 30Mbps before its even considered faulty should I have FTTC.

Pull the other one it has bells on it.

4 times the price, less than 3 times the speed and a fault threshold that is near enough the speed I get now?

Good game if you're the one earning the money. Otherwise you'd have to be desperate or dumb. Or stupid.

[kitz]

[guest]

[HPsauce]

Interestingly, while cabinets have been springing up (apparently randomly) around my exchange area in the last 3 months there are no dates on the availability checker.
Suddenly today I found this for my line!

Telephone Number nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn on Exchange XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is served by Cabinet 1

Available Products Downstream Line Rate(Mbps) Upstream Line Rate(Mbps) Downstream Range(Mbps) Availability Date

WBC FTTC             Up to 52.3                            Up to 10.9                        --                                    31-Mar-14

[Puppy]

Lucky you 

[Black Sheep]

[kitz]

[guest]

[guest]

[Black Sheep]

............ and give it who ??