ADSL works over wet string (2017)

Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by mattlondon on Saturday December 04, 2021 @03:25PM (#29443985)

Here in high-density London, we're stuck with ~70mbps ADSL and not even cable.

Not representative of all of London, but at least around my parts it is slow ADSL or nothing :(

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by ccakes on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:55PM (#29446092)

Nit: if 70Mbps isn’t a typo, then you’re on VDSL not ADSL.

ADSL tops out at ~24Mbps while VDSL can go much higher, albeit over shorter distances than ADSL

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by charcircuit on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:17PM (#29444809)

Are you suggesting 70Mbps is slow ADSL? There are many places where not even a tenth of that speed is possible.

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:04PM (#29445848)

I had a chuckle at the 3.5Mbps that the wet string was getting in the article. When I first moved in to this house, I was getting around 3Mbps on ADSL. Thankfully now I'm on 100Mbps fibre (not amazing by global standards, but good by Australian standards).

That wet string would have been an upgrade for me.

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by brokenmachine on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:52PM (#29468658)

Knew you were from Australia as soon as you mentioned your old speed.

100Mbps isn't great for fibre. I'm on 100Mbps just on plain old HFC.

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by tgpc on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:08AM (#29448385)

BT have left a large number of people on ADSL. No VDSL upgrade.

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Re:ADSL works over wet string (2017) by 867-5309 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:25PM (#29444864)

it's the UK average for urban ADSL. and those many places are where the FTTH startups are springing up

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