BT Estimated Speed???

Getting my Fibre installed this Friday but how accurate is the estimated up to speed as within my estate everyone is estimated different even know everyone is within about 50m-100m of each other

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Green: Me (Upto 54mb Down 15mb up)
Brown: Mate (Upto 71mb Down 20mb up)
Blue: Mate (Upto 73mb Down 19mb up)
Red: FTTC

Looks like you're at the end of a 200m cable.

hmmmm how good are these estimates as I’ve read some people getting well above?

Most people get a bit above. Quite a few get a lot under (aluminium wires a common and effectively unfixable reason).

They just regraded all the estimates; mostly downwards. http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/f/4241533-who...

Mine was estimated at 57Mb/s. According to BT's speedtester, initial sync was 68 for a few weeks, but I was tidying up the modem/router cables a couple of weeks ago and disconnected it a few times. Since re-sync it has been syncing at 60 with download speed ~57. I'm waiting another week or so before rebooting it so don't know whether I'll get back to 68

Many people seem to exceed BT's fttc estimate.

I mean for the distance of 60m or so 30% less download and 25% less up

54mb would put him about 450 - 500 meters, and if the cable goes around the road then he may well be.

http://goo.gl/maps/81gz3 400 meters

My estimate is 57 and I'm 450 meters from my cab, but only get 47

Edited by R0NSKI (Tue 28-May-13 21:00:03)

But how even at the very top end 250m thats around the estate

Edited by ashmo (Tue 28-May-13 21:09:29)

In reply to a post by R0NSKI:

My estimate is 57 and I'm 450 meters from my cab, but only get 47

My estimate was 46, now 41 and I'm 450m as measured but get 48. (Sync'd at 52145kbps).

YMMV.

Let us know how accurate it was on Friday, it's not like you can do anything about it regardless so no point in worrying about the guesstimate, see what you actually get.