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2012-01-12 13:35:00, updated 2012-01-26 15:13:14

It is impressive what you can do on a short bit of copper :-)

We have a number of customers on the FTTC 80Mb/s trial now. One has 79.7Mb/s and another has 57Mb/s. This is pretty impressive. The uplink is around 20Mb/s as well...

The trial is not going badly - the lines are syncing up at nice high rates, and the rates are correctly coming through to us.

There are a few minor teething troubles getting the profiles right in the middle somewhere - but this is a technical trial, so not at all surprising.

This part of the trial is expected to last until the end of the month, where the second phase of the trial starts. The second part is expected to be open to the whole country (where FTTC is currently available)

UPDATE

Here is a speed test result.

-a number of speed tests were carried out, this was the highest download result, the results did vary though, and the upload isn't as high as we'd expect - should be nearer 20Mb/s.

The end user will be trying a new router to compare.