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[niemand]

Yes, I've seen that and the previous talk from them on building for ultrafast.

All well and good but getting to their network in the first place is the issue.

[niemand]

Less than 4 months after G.fast went live the Openreach checker gives this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oE73Aao6NUUFFwNVdnXzlXa1U5azctMmJGNFNaZS1nc0JZ/view

[jelv]

That's not a public file - is it OK for us to request permission?

[niemand]

Fixed. Really not worth it now, though 

[j0hn]

Less than 4 months after G.fast went live the Openreach checker gives this:

Mine updated overnight.

I haven't checked what streets near me are being done but I'm not in any Fibre First rollout and it isn't BDUK work.

I don't think they would be bringing FTTP at all if Virgin hadn't just done so.

[niemand]

Makes perfect sense. Just our PCP here, and it seems to be confined to that PCP area, however that makes sense. FTTP is across the road to new build, Virgin Media have taken huge lumps out of really high FTTC take up, G.fast hasn't sold and the area is fully ducted relatively recently. Not to mention CityFibre are on the way.

On many levels it would be a strange commercial choice not to build sooner rather than later. Win back some custom lost to VM and be better prepared to resist CityFibre.

[Chrysalis]

Interested Carl if BTw held up for today's amazon games.

TTB (aaisp) was no issues watching.

[niemand]

No idea from experience, still on VM. Will make enquiries!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Interested Carl if BTw held up for today's amazon games.

TTB (aaisp) was no issues watching.

I've seen a lot of people complaining that they couldn't watch at all, although its unclear where the problem might be for those customers or what broadband they even have.

[Chrysalis]

Yep seen some complaints on TBB, and accompanied by heavy packet loss TBB graphs.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Nothing jumps out at me, the minor packet loss seems too late to be the match and more likely something I was doing:

[niemand]

Interested Carl if BTw held up for today's amazon games.

TTB (aaisp) was no issues watching.

Load was lower on Boxing Day than the peak early in December. Things seemed to be fine.

BT Wholesale are continuing upgrades in preparation for residential gigabit. Note the amount of areas where FTTPoD has gone from 330 to 1000. Those are BTW getting 10 Gb Cablelinks in place and beefing up backhaul.

[Chrysalis]

Ok thanks Carl, I guess it was localised to Zen or the issue the user reported was unrelated.

[Weaver]

I wouldn’t say no to 10 Mbps; no - "100 Mbps", or is it 1000 Mbps?   

[psychopomp1]

Took out an additional FTTP 330/50 line with BT Business back in Oct and it performs very well - haven't seen any slowdowns at all, even during the peak Amazon footy periods in early Dec and over Xmas:

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/b7646132f419197a496fc0ce38149d8f861ac35f
(red bit is where I switched between routers last night)

In fact the BT line performs better - wrt latency - than my £360/m Fluidone FoD line and £108/m* Trunk line. I'm paying £69/m for the BT line & its used purely for recreational use. Whilst the FluidOne 330/30 service is used for Business only. All 3 lines run over BT Wholesale tails.

So whilst paying more & going for a niche ISP might give you better support, there's no guarantee that you will get a better connection than cheaper/mass ISPs.

* currently getting the Trunk Networks FTTP 330/50 service for free