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As we're looking at moving home I'm having to spend time trying to ascertain where we can move to - that can get broadband at reasonable speeds.
Have got used to around 30 to 50 down and 45 to 50 up here, with 4G. Something like that would be acceptable but could do with faster.
The probability of moving to a cabled area is almost nil. The location therefore must have at least multiple 4G options for fast speeds (which will need to be checked on site) and ideally VDSL too.
VDSL can't get near that upstream without bonding. Was attracted by an ad for bonding and thought I'd try it for this address. Says 2 lines might manage 41 down and 8 up. 4 lines might manage 16 up. It's basically useless. But then "here" is about 800m from the cab so VDSL isn't any use.
But then that's really near to the cabinet in relative terms. I doubt very much we'll be any nearer to a cabinet than that, it's just a short hop.
In establishing whether it's even worth bothering to consider bonded VDSL I have a few questions:
1. Pair availability - if I ordered that here, I have a feeling that there aren't any spare pairs. I say this since BT regularly pop round to shift lines at the pole presumably trying to find one that works. If you order the 4 line product in such a location, what happens? Is the order simply knocked back immediately?
2. Pair quality - just picking out any 4 random pairs could theoretically result in worse speeds than carefully selecting matched pairs assuming they are available. Is this basically a telephone installation with no attention paid to the data side and it either works well or it doesn't or is this a sort of "special order" product?
3. If it doesn't work well, am I right in thinking that none of the consumer protection to get out of the contract applies since this is B2B and so if it's basically useless then I'm stuck with it and I'll have to pay for that and 4G as well?
Thanks.
Have got used to around 30 to 50 down and 45 to 50 up here, with 4G. Something like that would be acceptable but could do with faster.
The probability of moving to a cabled area is almost nil. The location therefore must have at least multiple 4G options for fast speeds (which will need to be checked on site) and ideally VDSL too.
VDSL can't get near that upstream without bonding. Was attracted by an ad for bonding and thought I'd try it for this address. Says 2 lines might manage 41 down and 8 up. 4 lines might manage 16 up. It's basically useless. But then "here" is about 800m from the cab so VDSL isn't any use.
But then that's really near to the cabinet in relative terms. I doubt very much we'll be any nearer to a cabinet than that, it's just a short hop.
In establishing whether it's even worth bothering to consider bonded VDSL I have a few questions:
1. Pair availability - if I ordered that here, I have a feeling that there aren't any spare pairs. I say this since BT regularly pop round to shift lines at the pole presumably trying to find one that works. If you order the 4 line product in such a location, what happens? Is the order simply knocked back immediately?
2. Pair quality - just picking out any 4 random pairs could theoretically result in worse speeds than carefully selecting matched pairs assuming they are available. Is this basically a telephone installation with no attention paid to the data side and it either works well or it doesn't or is this a sort of "special order" product?
3. If it doesn't work well, am I right in thinking that none of the consumer protection to get out of the contract applies since this is B2B and so if it's basically useless then I'm stuck with it and I'll have to pay for that and 4G as well?
Thanks.























