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The BT wholesale checker gives no location or number for a cab. does that indicate that I am fed direct from the exchange and not likely to get fibre ?

It suggests an Exchange only line yes.

Possibility of FTTC is reduced greatly and depends a lot on the targets for the project operating in your area. If there are 200 properties like yours, then it may prove cheaper to give you FTTC via a new cabinet, than deploy four cabinets to service four groups of 50 properties elsewhere.

Dave, thanks so much for that info. If only PlusNet customer support via the ticket system were as helpful (wait and see is their favourite line).

I was the first one to get fibre on my cabinet! Cabinet activated 8 March, ordered 17 March, installed 25 March.

Fibre installed today, throughput of 34.8Mbps.

I'm about 600m from the cabinet and 800m from the exchange. So on ADSL, I was getting an excellent 17Mbps, but on VDSL only 34.8Mbps.

Is that it for me? No way to increase that speed at all?

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Please can you run the Further diagnostics at the bottom of the initial results page of the BT Performance Test, and copy and paste the full contents of both the down and up results boxes .

How is the 600m measured?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband.... Your speed is only 0.2 Mbps outside our expectation for the distance. Yes FTTC speeds do drop off that much over distance.

Hi Andrew � Google maps routing (i.e. not as the crow flies) shows it's 0.4 miles = 643m.

So once you allow for tie pair to the FTTC itself from street cab and a bit of wiggle room maybe 700m and the speed is looking better.

What did the checkers suggest you might get?

They predicted 35Mpbs! So it was spot on.