Heads up for those with FTTC Broadband

[Mr Pointy]

A newsletter from Draytek came in today & mentioned that all equipment connected to a VDSL line must be BT SIN 498 approved if connected to an Openreach line, no matter who the ISP is:

http://www.draytek.co.uk/information/our-technolog...

Draytek are running an upgrade offer for a couple of versions of older router but other manufacturers may vary.

I wonder if Openreach will start disconnecting non-compliant equipment.

[Mr Pointy]

outnumbered said:

I can't really imagine that Openreach have the time to go round exhaustively testing compliance of connected equipment, but I guess they might check if you call them, or your ISP, with a fault report.

As I understand it they don't have 'go round' testing, they can just trigger a diagnostics report from the equipment & if it doesn't give the right answers then they know you have non-compliant equipment. It could be completely automated.