FTTC in St Andrews

[tobyaw]

My broadband seems to be getting slower and slower. A few years ago I could connect at 11Mb/s, but now I’m lucky to get 7Mb/s. I searched for something better, and was was pleased to see that St Andrews now has FTTC available.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/ESSTA

I rang my ISP this afternoon to see what they could do, and the result is that we’re being upgraded to FTTC on Monday 8 September. Apparently we’ll need a visit from a BT engineer to fettle our master socket, and AAISP will send me a new router.

We should get around 40Mb/s, with the option to upgrade to 80Mb/s. Looking forward to it.

Comments

Re: A&A FTTC

[tobyaw]

Did AAISP supply a router to you? Or are you using your own PPPoE device?

Wondering if my Time Capsule would work for that — Apple’s specs say it does PPPoE.

Re: A&A FTTC

[houstonjames.livejournal.com]

A&A did provide a basic router, but I use my own (a little fanless OpenBSD system which also handles DNS, printing, VPN and is about to start doing VoIP too). A Time Capsule should do quite well for that - I think I used my Airport Extreme for PPPoE at one point, and it did a decent job.