BT Infinity Fibre optic broadbandYou can get fibre optic broadband with speeds of up to 40Mb now.

30.9Mb download
10.0Mb upload


It came up with this but could do as unlocked modem says.

Line Status Help



Downstream Upstream
Attainable rate (kbit/s) 69460 23928
SNR margin (dB) 14.6 29.8
Line attenuation (dB) 0 0
Output power (dBmV) 12.4 4.4


Goes at full speed. 38.5 normally on speedtest.

modem say Line rate (kbit/s) 39998 1999 0

Hi there,

Points to note. Although Openreach will be updating their checkers, Openreach customers may cap their line check results to you until they are prepared for the 80/20 product varients. You may see a slight jump but not more than 40Mbps advertised for now. Worth considering if you are trying to get a view of the uplift for everyone in the short term.

Regarding speed estimates. These are usually conservative as they consider what the eventual uptake of FTTC will be in the cab and the impact of cross-talk. This is typically why speeds experienced are higher than advertised.

Thanks,
Brian

Today 23/1/12

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 36.7Mbps and upstream line speed of 14.1Mbps.

23/01/2012

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 23.5Mbps and upstream line speed of 8.6Mbps.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I think you've unfortunately asked the wrong question.

The estimator has already been updated for 17a, just capped at 40Mbps. All the replies so far are under 40Mbps, even though they may be connecting at that speed - like me on a 28.9 estimate, but my upstream estimate is now above 11Mbps whereas before the estimator change it was well below 10Mbps.

In my opinion the people who have replied so far aren't going to see a further change. Only those with a 40Mbps estimate will.

What anyone connecting at 40Mbps, whatever their estimate, will see is an increase in actual speed. Though maybe not until they upgrade, if that is how their ISP approaches the matter.

We will see at the weekend what happens. I am assuming the line checker reports the current stats from a database that contains the uplift ratio from the pcp to postcode spreadsheet.Maybe after sunday there will simply be a different uplift ratio which openreach have formulated.

Hi Brian,

So would that mean using an ISP's checker the results may be capped to 40 but usings the BT Wholesale checker you may see an upcapped result?

before:-

Sorry, you're not currently able to get BT Infinity. This may be because your area has not been enabled yet, or your individual line does not support super-fast broadband. Register your interest and we'll let you know if this changes.

and i'm sure after the 29th the result will be:-

.... the same

23/01/2012 @ 2352 hours.

Using my neighbours number (with his consent) as my line is LLU'd.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 30.7Mbps and upstream line speed of 12.6Mbps.

In reply to a post by 5km:

before:-

Sorry, you're not currently able to get BT Infinity. This may be because your area has not been enabled yet, or your individual line does not support super-fast broadband. Register your interest and we'll let you know if this changes.

and i'm sure after the 29th the result will be:-

.... the same

???
That's the BT Retail checker, which doesn't display estimates below 15Mbps, as that's the minimum for Infinity. I assume at some stage you have tried the BT Wholesale one, which is what all the other quotes are from?

There is FTTC available from BT Broadband for Openreach estimates as low as 5Mbps - usually producing a much higher actual. It just isn't called Infinity. ADSL24 and Aquiss also have customers on the 5Mbps+ product. Possibly other ISPs also do by now.

Doesn't matter which checker I use.

BT are not enabling the cabinet I connect to. Stupid city centre conservation area (even though it's a new build).