In reply to a post by ncf355:

the estimated speed was just 9.9

I thought you needed an estimated speed above 15meg before the order could be completed or am I out of date/just plain wrong?

BT used to limit the "Infinity" product to lines over a certain speed. If less than that you could get another package ".... with fibre"?

It was done to enable the Infinity package to get the maximum advertising headlines "... up to ????".

I was a little concerned when the engineer stated which Cab he was heading off to, but when he came back the speeds achieved at the house compared to that at the cab were quite impresssive:

Cab - 40.5
House - 39.6

sounds like a 40M product as described. With the low predicted speed your ISP may have ordered 40M.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

I was a little concerned when the engineer stated which Cab he was heading off to, but when he came back the speeds achieved at the house compared to that at the cab were quite impresssive:

Cab - 40.5
House - 39.6

sounds like a 40M product as described. With the low predicted speed your ISP may have ordered 40M.

That was my take, but the post above suggests due to the 45 profile in the results, its 80/20?

You are definitely on 80/20, as those IP Profiles could not exist on 40/n. Speed test results in themselves can be affected by other variables, but not the IP Profiles.

The upstream one of 20Mbs by the way is always set to that, unrelated to the actual connection speed.

If you multiply the downstream IP Profile by 1.033 you get your downstream connection speed within a few kbps.

yeah, I saw the >40 speed. Maybe it started life at 40 and was upgraded or maybe there was miscommunication about the reading at the cab. Who knows, at least you're getting a lot more than predicted !

Well,

ISP have come back to my support ticket on the issue stating the cab hardware cannot support 80/20.

Don't know if this is relevant, but BT order options for my line include Infinity 2, not sure they would take this order if they knew the cab hardware was incapable of the "Up to" 76MB

?

With the current ISP it's a bit more grey as the lower product is limited bandwith so the main purpose in going for the more expensive product is getting the "unlimited" DL's (or that would be their position, I suspect)

Whereas with BT, both products (Infinity 1 and 2) are "unlimited" but one's 40MB and the other is 76.

On another related note, did 2 x speed tests this morning (wired and wireless) giving 1.7MB DL and 9.2MB UL (this at 0550am!)

This isnt the first time I've had such a result at that time of morning, obviously something not quite right there

The cab supports 80/20 just you are stuck on a length of line that aatenuates signal so are slower.

If it really was a 40/10 product you would not have seen the ip profile at a speed over 40.

Plus Openreach fttc cabs all do the 40 and 80 products.

Thanks Andrew