BT ADSL - difference between 20:1 office & home

[javalord]

Hi,

Does anyone here know whats the actual difference between 20:1 and 50:1 IPStream products underneath? So far I've been told its purely QoS applied on the same shared virtual path for Office users.

Cheers

[bertie]

I'd like to know this too, moving to office next month

[DaftpuNk]

Are you asking what the 20:1 and 50:1 means? It's the contention ratio, in effect the number of users sharing a particular bandwidth slice at any one time. A lower contention guarantees higher consistent transfer rates.

[Kev79]

To be honest BT started using the same VP's for both Home and Office packages a while ago.

Basically at the moment the only difference is the speed BT deem as "slow" before they will accept it as a fault. 2Mbps is currently Home is 400kbps, yet Office products rated at 800kbps.

Once Max is launched shortly Office is being renamed into Premium so you will also get the higher upstream.

[javalord]

To be honest BT started using the same VP's for both Home and Office packages a while ago.

Basically at the moment the only difference is the speed BT deem as "slow" before they will accept it as a fault. 2Mbps is currently Home is 400kbps, yet Office products rated at 800kbps.

Once Max is launched shortly Office is being renamed into Premium so you will also get the higher upstream.

I'm aware of that. BT SIN documents basically say 'during congestion, office users first, home second on same VP'. And thats it.