FTTP in Cornwall
Finally we have Fibre to the Premises aka FTTH
Published: Tuesday, Jan 5, 2021 Last modified: Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024
We have the GEA-FTTP 80/20 product as defined by BT Openreach:
- Downstream peak 80
- Downsteam Prioritised 30
- Upstream Prioritised 20
iperf3 test to Linode
pi@praze:~ $ iperf3 -R -c gb.webconverger.com
Connecting to host gb.webconverger.com, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host gb.webconverger.com is sending
[ 5] local 81.187.180.146 port 56164 connected to 176.58.122.199 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 5.92 MBytes 49.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 8.46 MBytes 70.9 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 8.78 MBytes 73.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 8.73 MBytes 73.2 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 8.79 MBytes 73.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 8.79 MBytes 73.8 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 8.72 MBytes 73.1 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 8.80 MBytes 73.8 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 8.79 MBytes 73.7 Mbits/sec
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 8.51 MBytes 71.4 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 85.4 MBytes 71.7 Mbits/sec 221 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 84.3 MBytes 70.7 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
pi@praze:~ $ iperf3 -c gb.webconverger.com
Connecting to host gb.webconverger.com, port 5201
[ 5] local 81.187.180.146 port 56168 connected to 176.58.122.199 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 2.75 MBytes 23.1 Mbits/sec 0 168 KBytes
[ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 2.59 MBytes 21.7 Mbits/sec 0 296 KBytes
[ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 2.77 MBytes 23.2 Mbits/sec 0 423 KBytes
[ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 2.97 MBytes 24.9 Mbits/sec 0 550 KBytes
[ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 2.71 MBytes 22.7 Mbits/sec 0 676 KBytes
[ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 2.60 MBytes 21.8 Mbits/sec 0 803 KBytes
[ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 2.53 MBytes 21.3 Mbits/sec 33 403 KBytes
[ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 2.14 MBytes 18.0 Mbits/sec 0 440 KBytes
[ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 2.84 MBytes 23.9 Mbits/sec 0 465 KBytes
[ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 2.13 MBytes 17.9 Mbits/sec 0 479 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 26.0 MBytes 21.8 Mbits/sec 33 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 25.2 MBytes 21.1 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
Ping times
You can see from a brief smokeping, it goes from an unstable ~35ms (FTTC) to a stable 12ms (FTTP) ping time for Google DNS:
To Singapore from the UK, the picture is the same, but with a higher latency due to the long distance:
I have a long running Smoke ping from Singapore to Praze Farm and it’s looking FANTASTIC now that they are on Fibre:
Firebrick
FTTC:
With FTTP, notice the scale goes to 100M:
Sync rate
https://speed.prazefarm.co.uk/
For some reason A&A’s https://chaos2.aa.net.uk/broadband/info API is reporting the sync rate of FTTC:
download(tx)=11361000 upload(rx)=752000
Our new FTTP line rate is:
download(tx)=79575200 upload(rx)=20000000
Which is 7x better for download and about 26 times better for upload!
Monthy cost
FTTC:
- Line rental 12GBP
- Home:1 35GBP
- Home:1 Addon for VDSL 10GBP
So 57GBP for 2TB bandwidth with a very unstable line.
FTTP:
- Home::1 Broadband, 2TB usage allowance 35GBP
- Home::1 Add-On: Fibre to the premises Non Transition Line 15GBP
Rural fibre is costing us 50GBP for monthly, a saving of 7GBP per month if you ignore the 4600GBP spent on the upgrade!