BT begins trials of 330Mbps G.fast internet

[peterb]

Hey PeterB Does your System run Crysis ?

I have no idea. The system might, but I don't.

[gagaga]

Can't we have both? FFS Korea's had Gigabit internet for years now.

The population density in the parts of korea with this are insane - it's easy to pipe a fibre to a tower block with 150 flats in, especially if there are 10 more next door. You get gigabit fibre in London if you live in a big enough block. I'm sure in rural Korea they get the same issues we do, but most are in cities where the density makes new infrastructure like this viable.

Eastern europe is the other example, but they didn't have t pay for their new network rollouts, we did...

[ik9000]

I used to live in a block of 271 apartments. Virgin fibre ran right outside, but because we were on a private road the council wouldn't authorise digging up the road to install cables to the flats. All we could have was ADSL or sky. We chose to get a 4G wifi router instead. This is surprisingly common throughout London. Most of the srubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishy docklands developments have the most rubbish internet in the world. It's not to do with density. It's to do with convenience and lazy councils/freeholders not being bothered to make the companies install the infrastructure necessary for their tenants to connect to.

[pastymuncher]

How about they upgrade everybody else before giving a select few places even faster speeds. We are still on ADSL max here with speeds varying between 5.5-6.5mb and terrible pings. Getting sick and fed up with seeing faster and faster speeds advertised, quite often for less than I pay now for my connection.

[ik9000]

I quite agree. If I were PM rollout of state-owned 1GB ftth to ALL properties would be mandatory, as would state owned nuclear power stations to provide cheap electricity to the whole UK. That would help the "Digital economy" no end. Companies can then lease from the government and sell packages to private individuals and companies.

[DanceswithUnix]

I quite agree. If I were PM rollout of state-owned 1GB ftth to ALL properties would be mandatory, as would state owned nuclear power stations to provide cheap electricity to the whole UK. That would help the "Digital economy" no end. Companies can then lease from the government and sell packages to private individuals and companies.

Would you have a state standard issue router that people would have to use to access their state provided broadband? The privacy paranoid would go spare

[munchie]

as soon as BT is released from the obligation of providing a maintained telephone system. They are required to provide a DC powered circuit to any home that uses their service, so even where there is a fibre service, they still have to provide a DC maintained service - and that precludes only fibre.

yeah, so people can still use landline when power is down. most relevant to remote areas i expect. think in america some isp/telcomn has to provide backup batteries if they get rid of copper and go full fibre? forgot where i read that.

[mondayriot]

Instead of wasting money on a new technology, BT need to sort the problems with their ageing network and infrastructure. As soon as I can get Virgin, I'm ditching BT altogether.

[Domestic_Ginger]

My new house has a whopping 2.4 Mb/s (0.3 MB/s) as measured by peak steam download.

I feel inadequate to say the least!

[abaxas]

My new house has a whopping 2.4 MB/s (0.3 MB/s) as measured by peak steam download.

I feel inadequate to say the least!

Decent router and a bit of QOS and you'll be fine.

[kingpotnoodle]

Virgin Media customers are getting upgraded soon in October 2015. 50mb = 100mb 100mb to 200mb and 150mb to 300mb. while BT are just trailing Gfast of 330mb Rollout wont start Middle of 2016. I guess like most customers I want to see IPv6 being used more.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...eed-boost.html

Many homes (mine included) cannot get Virgin's DOCSIS service and the likelihood of cables being run to us is around zero, very nearly all homes have a copper BT compatible phone line which requires zero digging to make use of. The cost and disruption of replacing every single copper phone line in the UK with a piece of fibre optic cable is MASSIVE and chances are by the time it was finished there will be something else obsoleting it so making better use of the copper cables is a sensible idea alongside fibre and wireless research.

IPv6 won't do anything for your speeds and is a totally different but arguably even more necessary project; it's not what most customers want though, ~99% of customers don't know what IPv6 is nevermind have an opinion on it, most customers can however understand that more megabits sounds like a good thing.

I won't pay hundreds/thousands to install FTTP, FTTC gets me around 25/3Mb I am not too badly off but I certainly wouldn't say no to a speed boost, so it's nice to see BT working on it.