Oops! Still excited by the results!


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14172...

On top of that, i've checked the BT wholesale checker and the Talktalk website and all FTTC speed estimates have been removed. If I was ordering this today I couldn't get it as its not available at my address!

In reply to a post by jtthedevil:

Oops! Still excited by the results!


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/14172...

You might want to go back and edit/correct your original post.

In reply to a post by ron3003:

Apparently the BT checker estimates speeds to the Drop Pole and not your actual location.

I think you mean distribution point

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

The postcode checker seems to have entirely forgotten about FTTC nowadays.

The results that BT posted about their G.fast trials (fibre to the DP) gave some stats about the drop wire (oe lead-in) distance from the DP:

20% of lines have a drop wire shorter than 19m
20% of lines have a drop wire longer than 67m.

500m must be pretty abnormal.

Here's Plusnets final response to my ticket;

Our Support Team have replied to your Question (reference number: 93037992) with the comment shown below.



Dear Mr ******,

Thanks for your time on the phone today. As per our conversation, unfortunately due to the length of the line from the DP (500m) you are not going to see the estimated speeds as these assume you are no more than 50m from the DP.

The testing I've done shows that the connection is now stable as we are no longer seeing the drops we were before the last engineer went out.

Everything is therefore now running as it should (albeit with slower speeds than originally expected).

As agreed I am closing the fault off, but do not hesitate to get back to us if further issues surface.

Thanks guys.

Went to see the property today, checked their current DSL speed, looks about 2.5mbit, more than I expected really considering distance from exchange (5km by road).

The bt checker says Cabinet 4, but the cabinet I thought it may be connected to is not the same one (Cabinet 1). Hmm. Anyway to find out where this cabinet may be? It may be closer than I think and just not marked as one to be fibre enabled just yet.

Cheers
James

Which exchange?

I'm at the end of 1500m of cable (from the cabinet) and I'm getting 16 - 17 Mbps.

I hope that helps.

John

Minster, Ramsgate

Well, we've had an offer accepted on the house!

Hopefully we can get a decent FTTC connection or signal for VFast. Just awaiting exchange to be enabled to get an estimate of speed on the BT checker.