BT says it can boost existing fibre lines to 800Mb down/200 up, should be ready for launch around De - Polidicks

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;46072786]800Mbps download speed, with a 35GB monthly bandwidth cap.[/QUOTE] You're saying that like it's a bad thing, but I would gladly take that over my house's current internet situation.

[QUOTE=Killergam;46078212]and yet BT still have tiny bandwidth caps.. So you will never be able to use that 1gb connection. [editline]26th September 2014[/editline] You actually pay: £39 [url]http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html#bbonly[/url][/QUOTE] BT's higher tier connections have no caps.

[QUOTE=Starship;46072458]For only 399£/month. I don't get how you can have such slow internet everywhere in the UK.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile my only option in area is Comcast's 3.5up/1.5 down that goes down every three days [editline]26th September 2014[/editline] Oh cool editing is broken

I wish I had more upload. 5mb/s is the max I can get everything upwards is "Business" stuff.

[QUOTE=draugur;46076879]If these speeds came to America, it'd probably cost around $15,000 a month. Be glad that BT at least cares enough to fuck you in the ass over 800mb speeds instead of 650kb-10mb speeds with massive downtime for the same costs.[/QUOTE] Depends on the area, Comcast has 150/20 here for $115/mo. And further down near Provo (Where they have to compete with G Fiber) they charge $80/mo or so for 250/50. And in Utopia cities we have 1000/1000 for ~$85/mo... What's going to happen is Century Link is going to start dropping out of the consumer internet market (You can see this already, they stopped deploying infrastructure upgrades to residences in 2008.) and start focusing on Business connections, Comcast has no plans to upgrade to newer DOCSIS hardware, so it will probably eventually become the "Slow and cheap" that CTL currently is.

hahaha fuck off BT on Sky, which uses BT's infrastructure, up to 17Mbps down, actual maximum is 10Mbps down massive throttling (even though Sky don't throttle apparently), which results in speeds of 0.16Mbps for significant periods of time i wish i was swedish/estonian/korean/dutch/japanese/in a google fibre city

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;46079948] i wish i was swedish/estonian/korean/dutch/japanese/in a google fibre city[/QUOTE] Vocally support Municipal fiber, don't wish. [QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46079988]Related though this isn't really something BT can claim as a "breakthrough" it's more or less "we have more money now we can up the speeds" Also what's the bet the price is well out of actual average wage British citizens. I had major major fucking throttling from Vodafone so no surprises ISPs are still piggy backing off existing infrastructures even in different countries. Here's a good question. How much is this 800/200 plan? Cause if I jump town 6 hours down from NZ I can get 1000/20(which is stupid for it's upload:download ratio) for cheaper then what I paid for my DSL and what I'm going to be paying now for my 100/50 in my current town.[/QUOTE] If I understand the situation, they're moving people to FTTP; which means that older FTTN/FTTC connections have less traffic on them; meaning there's more channels they can run the internet connection over (and hence faster connections possible). That's also the reason sometimes you get weird/terribad download upload ratios DOCSIS binds to channels, upstream and downstream, so they often bind a lot more to downstream than to upstream (since each channel less dedicated to upstream can go to buffing downstream).

Won't that be nice for people inside of cities, while everyone else in the country is shafted because BT can't be bothered to install some new lines.

[QUOTE=booster;46074259][img]http://imgkk.com/i/5aht.gif[/img] [I]The year is 4530, the planet is turned into one gigantic router so the rest of the galaxy can get a stable internet connection.[/I][/QUOTE] Too bad the galaxy still run off dial-up connections. (that's a RJ11 phone jack)

Whats the "new breakthrough" ? My student house already has a 1Gb/s fibre, and is going to be upgraded to 10Gb/s within this year. It does not give that much to the apartments tho, (or my old hardware is a bottleneck): [IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3726339402.png[/IMG] Btw I pay nothing for this. It's part of my student apartment rent, which is amazingly cheap even by itself.

[QUOTE=Killergam;46078212]and yet BT still have tiny bandwidth caps.. So you will never be able to use that 1gb connection. [editline]26th September 2014[/editline] You actually pay: £39 [url]http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html#bbonly[/url][/QUOTE] Late reply, but no. Virgin give out free upgrades to their customers, it's not that uncommon.

Great, now our backwards ass (Australian Liberal) government is gonna see this and say "SEE YOU FIBRE ZEALOTS? WE CAN GET THE SAME THING THAT YOU'VE ALL BEEN LUSTING APESHIT FOR!!" and completely miss the point on the future upgradability of fibre being comparatively damn cheap.

[QUOTE=Keitaro;46081727]Too bad the galaxy still run off dial-up connections. (that's a RJ11 phone jack)[/QUOTE] You can run DSL through RJ11 as well.

Meanwhile, my parents can get a 500/500 line, with a speed guarantee (ensuring that the connection never drops below that, which it shouldn't when it's fiber connection), for less than 180USD. And they don't even live near any city.

One of the bad things about rural areas is the real lack of any proper internet. My town only had one cable ISP and all the others are satellite.

I'm on FTTC half a mile away from the cabinet. Speed - 5mbps down, 0.5 mbps up. Fix that first please BT instead of giving people with 80mbps connections 1gbps.

Can we just have Smurfy be responsible for every single thread title and OP content in this forum? :v:

I could have 50 Mbps, but after having 16 Mbps for so long, it is fast enough for me. I don't download that much anyway, and if I have to download a 35GB game from Steam I do it over night or do something else while it is downloading

[QUOTE=Jetamo;46072471]meanwhile in rural wales, it would be quicker to get someone to do a steam backup of a game that we both own, burn it, send it to me, and then I install the steam backup than to actually download it manually. Fast people get faster, slower people still on ADSL get shafted. Ho hum.[/QUOTE] Semi-Rural Scotland near the city of Aberdeen, whilst my internet situation isn't quite that bad, I do feel your pain.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;46088414]I could have 50 Mbps, but after having 16 Mbps for so long, it is fast enough for me. I don't download that much anyway, and if I have to download a 35GB game from Steam I do it over night or do something else while it is downloading[/QUOTE] but why couldn't you have something better for cheaper? the possibility is there, so what stops companies from doing it? i mean we know the answer to it, but that shouldn't be an issue at all.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46088500]but why couldn't you have something better for cheaper? the possibility is there, so what stops companies from doing it? i mean we know the answer to it, but that shouldn't be an issue at all.[/QUOTE] I am sure there there will still be the option between getting 16 Mbps and 50 Mbps, and the 16 Mbps will still be cheaper than the 50 Mbps. It is only 10 Euro difference, but why should I get something I don't really need?

[QUOTE=Craigewan;46088432]Semi-Rural Scotland near the city of Aberdeen, whilst my internet situation isn't quite that bad, I do feel your pain.[/QUOTE] I'm in Aberdeen and I get shafted with shit speeds even using fibre

It's funny they say this but during the afternoon I suffer from extreme amounts of packet loss and intense throttling while on Infinity.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;46088579]I am sure there there will still be the option between getting 16 Mbps and 50 Mbps, and the 16 Mbps will still be cheaper than the 50 Mbps. It is only 10 Euro difference, but why should I get something I don't really need?[/QUOTE] That's not the point. Why shouldn't you be able to get 30/30 for the price of your current connection?

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46088949]That's not the point. Why shouldn't you be able to get 30/30 for the price of your current connection?[/QUOTE] DSL works with a max bandwidth of 16 Mbps and uses a copperline. If you want up to 50 Mbps, you need to get VDSL which works over fibre optic. So it is a different medium which uses different technology.

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[QUOTE=Maucer;46081803]Whats the "new breakthrough" ? My student house already has a 1Gb/s fibre. It does not give that much to the apartments tho, (or my old hardware is a bottleneck): [IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3726339402.png[/IMG] Btw I pay nothing for this. It's part of my student apartment rent, which is amazingly cheap even by itself.[/QUOTE] I think you completely missed the point of this. It's a breakthrough not because of the speed, but because it can work with existing infrastructure which means it can be deployed much sooner and much cheaper. While FTTP (Fibre To The Premises) is faster a full FTTP roll out is going to be expensive as hell and take a long time. BT are actually a pretty decent ISP. I pay £25 for 74 Mbps down, 18 up and it is unlimited and they never throttle it. The support is the only thing that sucks with them but luckily I rarely have to deal with them.