FTTB but only 100Mbit?

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@schnyders wrote:

Hello everyone

The Linechecker currently says the following for my address:

Between August 2017 and September 2017, the site will be expanded with fiber optic technology. This means you can now benefit from ultra-fast internet with an estimated 100 Mbit/s download and 25 Mbit/s upload.

After asking Swisscom, they even said that my address (apartment building) was connected to FTTB. Is this down and especially upload normal for such a Anschluss? If not, quite a bit. Unfortunately, an upgrade to FTTB is also not possible, even though I had the last few meters done at my expense.

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I also received this information, but we are working on even higher speeds and trials are already underway.

[https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/medien/press-releases/2016/10/20161018-MM-Gfast.html](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/medien/ press-releases/2016/10/20161018-MM-Gfast.html)

Hi

If it is FTTB and the cable length in the house is not too long, then it can also be 120 MBit/s. We are currently in the transition phase of expansion. Depending on how long this expansion has been planned, you will get an FTTB element that can do VDSL or if you are lucky, then you will get one that can do g.fast/VDSL. Then the speeds are of course significantly higher. And to take immediate precautions: No, unfortunately we cannot ensure/adjust that a g.fast.Element is built there.

A fiber extension into the living room is also not possible because the technologies are completely different. With FTTH there is a point-to-point connection (a fiber optic) that goes from your living room to the headquarters. With FTTS/B, only a few fiber lines are pulled to the mCAN (the element) and from there this capacity is distributed across the copper lines. And yes, the glass capacity is more than sufficient. In order to bring glass into the living room later, we have to use a different glass technology (point to multipoint). Then you would take out the mCAN and replace it with a splitter and from there bring fiber into the living room. This procedure is currently being used in some other countries. It’s cheaper than point-to-point, but it’s still a lot of work because you have to pull the glass cable into the house.

Guido

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@schnyders wrote:

Should be around 20 meters as the crow flies. Of course I don’t know exactly where the cable duct goes through. How do I find out whether it will be VDSL or g.fast.

Unfortunately, VDSL would be a joke, as hardly anyone in this region will switch since the competitors still offer significantly better bandwidths.

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I have an even crazier situation: the city has had a private company build a fiber optic network in all of its apartments and the providers have to buy in if they want to use the network, so I have two fiber optic networks in my rented apartment, the Anschluss is already in Living room installed. For me, 100 Mbit/s will be sufficient for the time being from October.

In any case, I have the same information as you, Swisscom has already removed the old lead cables in front of the house and enlarged the shafts, so something is going on, and the date has already been pushed back by a month.

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@schnyders wrote:

The day before yesterday I think the pipes were laid in the basement. Unfortunately, no one can still answer my question about what we’re really getting. Whether VDSL or GFast or whether Swisscom just somehow gets its way and gives me FFTH.

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I’m in the same situation myself, an external company pulled fiber optics into my living room and Swisscom is pulling fiber optics separately to the front of the property and from there the existing copper cables are used. But as mentioned in the link below, the fiberglass/copper combination will also get a boost in performance in the future, but some things probably still need to be adjusted in the control centers.

For the time being, the 100 Mbit/s is enough for me since there are only two UHD TV boxes, the upload should be higher than 20 Mbit/s because of the uploading of pictures to the cloud.

[https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Archiv-Internet/Glas Fiber-FTTS-lt-gt-FTTH/td-p/387873](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Archiv-Internet/ Fiber optic FTTS-lt-gt-FTTH/td-p/387873)

Note on my location: