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The PTT is limited in 50 megs in this building. However, the cable company just upgraded its network and is now offering up to 500. I assume the cable company is using coax and may be that gives them an edge when combined with VDSL to get up to 500 megs.
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Phil Lavin <phil.lavin@cloudcall.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>; Nanog@nanog.org <Nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: VDSL</font>
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<div class="PlainText">> I discovered that the Budapest cable company was using VDLS to provide services up to 500 megs into the buildings where my flats are located. VDSL is a pretty old standard. I recollect people talking about it back in 1998.
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> Is it being heavily deployed in Last Mile networks state side?<br>
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DSL on the whole seems pretty unpopular in the USA. VDSL itself is a fairly old standard but it's been enhanced over the years to provide bandwidths up to 300mbit on a single twisted copper pair, albeit over relatively short distances.<br>
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DSL (these days, specifically VDSL2) is extremely popular and widely used within the UK because almost every home has a single twisted pair going into it for a POTS phone line. It made sense to run services over this than to re-cable 25 million homes. A (very)
slow FTTH rollout is under way but what seems to be getting more traction is a rollout of G.Fast which currently boasts speeds of up to 500mbit over short distances (< 100m), still on a single twisted copper pair. This may be what you're getting as VDSL2 won't
push to 500mbit over any sensible distance.<br>
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I can only speculate on why they decided to use DSL in your building - if it has legacy POTS infrastructure to each apartment, it would make some sense. If not, who knows...<br>
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