I've been using Speedtest.net for most of the tests and ThinkBroadband for a few - TB gives slower upload speeds than ST.net but still fine. For ST, I've mostly been using the Manchester host (thanks uno!) as it gives the best ping from my Manchester based ISP, but I've been mixing it up a bit with no significant difference between hosts.

If the fibre goes to the city centre exchange, then I'm probably closer to it than any of you guys. I don't know where the cabinet is. I will try the BT speed tester now.

your fibre will be connected to the irish street exchange lall the fibre is going though that
i would say your fibre cabnet is about 250 mets away going by the speed test you are connected at .

Hmm, I ran the BT speed tester.

Download speed achieved during the test was - 20393 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 12000-36743 Kbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is -36743 Kbps


Upload speed achieved during the test was - 4163 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 10000 Kbps

Using SpeedTest.net, I'm presently getting 13.4Mbit/s down and 5Mbit/s up. It has fluctuated quite a bit (no correlation with time of day), evidently the download speed is feeling good at present. Is my IP profile supposed to be negative?

In reply to a post by Johnct:

your fibre will be connected to the irish street exchange lall the fibre is going though that
i would say your fibre cabnet is about 250 mets away going by the speed test you are connected at .

Not true, the fibre goes through 21CN exchanges and NILDW is not enabled, it goes all through NILDM

A test on my line shows this:

FTTC Availability

FTTC availability Y
OHP district code NI
OHP exchange code LDM

Edited by BuckleZ (Thu 11-Aug-11 18:10:07)

i guess o2 must have helped you with that info !!

In reply to a post by Johnct:

i guess o2 must have helped you with that info !!

Or possibly the Openreach engineer who installed it?

a question with a question i thought you knew it all lol

Any exchange can get FTTC, it does not need to be 21CN enabled as it's not a requirement, but may be different in your exchange setup.

James

Yeh the exchange that your connected to does not need to be 21CN, but the connection will go to a 21CN exchange, in my area there is 2 21CN exchanges (one was only done recently) and all the FTTC cabinets are routed thruogh the older one, engineer said thats the way it happens in all the areas around here.

For eg in my area these are a few exchanges, NILDM, NILDW, NIBRH, NICRS, NICSI, NICDY

Out of them, only NILDM and NIBRH are 21CN enabled, any other exchange FTTC PCP cabinet is routed to either 1 of them 2 exchanges, i think they all actualy go through NIDLM as NIBRH was only 21CN activated in March

Edited by BuckleZ (Thu 11-Aug-11 19:56:00)

buckle we already got the info from adsl24 you were too slow !!!