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Will G.fast benefit me?

OtakuBoy92

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I'm currently with BT and I believe I am over 800m away from my cabinet. As such I receive between 20-34Mbps variably. I live in a 6 in a block maisonette. We share a communal gard between 3 sets of flats joined.

With the pole in between the three flats serving each of the three ajoined buildings with a PSTN to the residents.

With the upcoming roll out of G.fast. Will I benefit?
 
Openreach usually deploys two cabinets in their existing setup, the first is an older PCP and the second is the DSLAM for your VDSL / FTTC "fibre broadband" connection. Both should usually be quite close together, although sometimes there's a street or two between them.

In a G.fast setup the kit will be installed on the side of your local PCP cabinet, but the G.fast signal is only viable for up to about 500 metres from that so I’d say you're unlikely to benefit as part of the initial roll-out. You'll probably be on 20-34Mbps for a few years more.

However Openreach are testing some changes that might allow VDSL "fibre" services to use the existing ADSL spectrum, which if adopted might give you a modest speed boost. But this is still in the very early development stage.
 
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Potentially but for the time being Openreach has dropped FTTdp in favour of a cheaper cabinet based approach, so we might see FTTdp later-on (this is how G.fast was originally intended to be deployed) but it probably won't be until after 2020.
 
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