In your opening post you talk about yourself with an 80Mbps estimate and a friend 2 miles from the cabinet with a 17Mbps estimate. Your last couple of posts seem to be about you and 17Mbps FTTC.

?????

Yes because I do not need or want to pay for the full potential of the service.
17MB will be fine for the household needs.
Simple as that

I think you are getting confused by the BT website, where ADSLx and FTTC are mixed up in a very messy way. .

(By the way, MBps or Mbps. 1MBps = 8Mbps).

If your FTTC estimate is 80Mbps, what product are you on about that offers 17Mbps, assuming that's what you mean? Your estimate table shows no ADSL2+ (nor ADSL2 which is a different thing again). It just shows FTTC or ADSL Max.

You are already on the maximum speed for ADSL Max. You cannot get the advertised 17Mbps ADSL2+ product, which is not FTTC. On FTTC you have Infinity 1 (up to 38Mbps) or Infinity 2 (up to 76Mbps) available. Or of course the equivalent from a hundred or so other ISPs.

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 11-Dec-14 19:49:24)

Have a look at the first post. That refers to a friend 2miles further away who can only get 17 Mbps.

I probably read it the same as Robertos, To me he was talking about looking for fttc deals when his contract is up, as well as talking about his friend

Edited by deleted (Thu 11-Dec-14 22:52:13)

You've missed that he is now talking about the BT ADSL2+ 17Mbps product for himself, under the misapprehension (caused by the idiotic BT website layout), that it is FTTC.

In the OP the 17Mbps for his friend was FTTC degraded by distance .

Yes.

Where does his post of teh BT figures show anything about ADSL2+?

It only gives FTTC clean/ impacted and ADSL Max. or fixed.

In reply to a post by stree:

High Low High Low
FTTC Range A (Clean) 80 72.2 20 20 -- Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 80 62.9 20 17.7 -- Available

ADSL Max Up to 8 -- 7 to 8 Available
Fixed Rate 2 -- -- Available
Other Offerings
Fibre Multicast -- -- -- Available

That is ADSL2+ not FTTC on BT site it is Infinity 1and 2 you need to look at

In reply to a post by MHC:

Where does his post of teh BT figures show anything about ADSL2+?

It only gives FTTC clean/ impacted and ADSL Max. or fixed.

Precisely.

Start at his post following the one where he gives that estimate table. Also, if you haven't already done so, take a look at this BT Page, which starts and ends with Infinity.

Myself, tthom and Andrew all think he is mistakenly looking at the ADSLx products, thinking they are FTTC.

I don't see his exact price, but he is almost certainly looking at the non-FTTC, (i.e. ADSL2x), 17Mbps packages, thinking they are "Infinity". It's a shockingly confusing page.

He has said he will probably take the 17Mbps as he doesn't need faster and doesn't want to pay for faster.