G.fast 350Mbit Internet beta testers required - Free trial connections of 350Mbit!

[SchoolsBroadband]

Hello everyone,

 

we're always trying the very latest and greatest here at Schools Broadband and next up from a connectivity point of view is G.fast.

 

For those of you that haven't heard of G.Fast (BT retail call it Ultrafast), it's going to be a replacement for FTTC (BT retail call this Superfast).

 

BT Openreach are current upgrading lots of their street cabinets with new G.Fast pods on them. A picture of them can be found below (its the thin one on the right added to the normal phone line cabinet).

 

 

 

G.fast will initially be available in two variants. 160Mbit down, 30Mbit up and 350Mbit down and 50Mbit up which is quite a bit quicker than FTTC and the majority of leased lines many schools have. Just like FTTC, G.Fast is copper based so the signal degrades over distance from the cabinet so the speed will get slower the further you are away.

 

We will also be offering EoG.Fast (Ethernet Over G.Fast) which will come with guaranteed speeds and an enhanced SLA just as we do with EoFTTC.

 

 

If you're lucky enough to be able to get it (check on the link below) then please do get in touch as we will be offering it free of charge to a couple of customers for a year to see how it performs and test the installation process.

 

 

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.AddressOutput

 

It's currently only available to about 360,000 premises but BT will be rolling it out in earnest from the summer I believe.

 

Thanks as always

 

Dave

[Paid_Peanuts]

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[Edu-IT]

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Just to be clear, what is it displayed as on the BT Checker?

[gh5000]

Also when you say customers is that potential customers or existing customers?

[SchoolsBroadband]

Anyone so long as it's installed at a school

[gh5000]

Cool. What's the answer to the "what row of the bt check should we be looking at" I get this

[sted]

lol i recognise that cab its near my local asda ooh and i can get 330mb

but after seeing below only as fttp at some daft cost grr

Edited March 3, 2018 by sted

[SchoolsBroadband]

Also when you say customers is that potential customers or existing customers?

 

Hello this is for existing and potential customers. i.e. anyone

[SchoolsBroadband]

Good morning everyone,

 

for the avoidance of doubt please see a G.Fast capable address we used in the BT checker

 

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/ADSLChecker.AddressOutput

 

 

If it doesn't say G.Fast on the left under the featured products column then BT don't yet support G.Fast on that line (even though your cabinet may have one of the new pods).

 

So if it does then please get in touch and we'll see if we ca get you on the trail.

 

Thanks

 

Dave