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[Alex Atkin UK]

Wonder why they didn't go with a socket on the wall, like an optical master socket as that would make it a lot safer for the customer to swap things out?  Some of the alt-nets in the UK let you do a self install from the kerbside into your own home, so it's possible.

Probably because they don't want the end user thinking they can just plug/unplug the ONT all the time, such as when cleaning the house.  Do that a few times and you'd trash the fibre.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Thanks. My ping did drop by about half compared to my FTTC connection. I’m sure it was CarlT that said in a post before that once your onto ultra fast then faster speeds don’t seem as profound. I do think that is true. It is great the bandwidth and the upload is great for my cloud backups running over night.

Depends entirely on your usage.  As someone who downloads games quite regularly, sitting waiting an hour for that when any YouTube or streaming I do while waiting slows it down, is pretty darn profound.

Its just the same as when doing any upgrade, you quickly forget what it was like before but try going back and you'll soon notice how profound it was.

[Weaver]

Try going back to 10 Mbps / 1.6 Mbps upstream, or 2.5 Mbps downstream / 0.4 Mbps upstream. No, what about 0.5 / 0.5 Mbps, or 49 kbps / 33 kbps. How did we survive in the days of dial-up? I got things done back then, browsed the web, used email, even watched streaming video in very small windows and at extremely bad quality due to the very heavy compression.

[busterboy]

Try going back to 2.5 Mbps downstream / 0.4 Mbps upstream.

I'm still there sadly.