Anyone using VDSL2?

How is is it compared to ADSL2 and what isp are you using?

Cheers
JohnO

 

About $30/month more than ADSL2? Not too bad. The extra speed would
make telecommuting over RDP a bit happier.

 

Is it only $30/month more?
Last time I looked, plans at under $100/month had very small data caps.
There's a VDSL2 capable box at the end of our driveway. I get good
speeds down on ADSL2+ off-peak (~14 Mb/s) but this drops to as low as
1.5 Mb/s in the evening, probably mainly due to my ISP (Slingshot -
which is cheap - but a little bit shit wrt on-peak performance).
I'm a bit wary of switching to VDSL, the modems are expensive, I read
some comments on one ISP offering VDSL that they'd only support users
with the modem they supplied, and then I wonder what the real speeds
will be, as there's no guarantee that d/l speed will be blistering.
Once major ISPs (ie telecom) start rolling out VDSL, things might
change. Telecom called me last week trying to get me to change ISP, I
asked about VDSL, and they commented that this should be available
"sometime next year". That's not very definite, and makes me wonder why
they'd sit back when the hardware is in place in many areas.
I'll wait for a while - unless someone in the neighbourhood close to us
takes the plunge - with good results.

 

$25 is hardly a premium.

upgraded my snap connection to it. Pings have gone up to my webhost -
8-9ms on ADSL2 up to about 20ish on VDSL but apparantly it should settle
to a lower latency profile in a few days.

upload speed boost is awesome. The fritz!box router they sell for dirt
cheap is working well, Not tried its wireless at all but for routing etc
it does the trick.

Only problem I have had is that my downloading machine which has its
default gateway being the router on my flatrate slingshot connection had
ipv6 enabled, got assigned one from the router on snap and hammered my
25 gigs in about half a day. Ooops. Disabled v6 on the torrenting
machine now so shouldnt happen again

 

Thanks Richard. Snap looks the pick of them based on price. Service ok
and the speed doesn't suffer overly from contention?

 

My line is hardly representitive of it as there is clearly something
wrong with it, but its nice to not have things choke up to unusable just
because I have chucked a few files into my dropbox or something.

Everytime I have called they have answered quite quickly and there is no
ESL first tier script reading bullshit like you get from other ISPs.

Im shaped to 64k at the moment so pushing everything out my slingshot
connection which is noticibly different to use, due to them having the
cache.

Once I am certain I wont have anything go out the snap connection during
the non offpeak times I will chuck some more data onto it. Its quite
cheap now, and snap seem to let you change you data block during the
month to a larger one vs adding more blocks on which saves a bit

 

[snip]

Let history show that Snap has gotten good reviews in this ng in the past
and no "I would never use them again" ones.

 

Ah, ha. We still have the everyone downloads idea in force. Rather than a
high way has traffic going in both directions.

Still it is ending.

Small, is good with ISP's. For they know that one customers can do a great
deal of damage % wise if they do not get good service. They also have the
attitude that there are people who they are adding value to their lives, not
trying to use them to add to their ( The ISP's) profit only.

Capitalism says that you must grow you company other wise others will take
over yours. Once again it is wrong. A small business can work very well for
those who do not wish to take over the universe.

 

Oh yes! Let the machince do the work while I do something it can not help me
with. Thinking as a case in point.

Read, while data caps are in place, almost any speed can blow them out of
the water, or the ads person's spin.

 

I find GUI developer tools get laggy if the speed in *both* directions
isn't fast. That $1 a day extra soon becomes insignificant if there's
even a small drop in productivity.

 

Do snap allow a static IP?

 

I read that they only allow it on v4 at the moment, the v6 prefix will
always change at the moment.

I dont have any need for one so havent bothered.