In reply to a post by rippedcotton:

He's going to have to wait for the checker database to catch up before he can post the correct information!

It occurred to me a few minutes ago that the Openreach estimates database and the BT Wholesale feed from it now track actuals much quicker on FTTC than they do/did on ADSLx.

There's a nasty chance that by the time the BT Wholesale checker gets the new data for the number that it will reflect what the OP is getting .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by rippedcotton:

He's going to have to wait for the checker database to catch up before he can post the correct information!

It occurred to me a few minutes ago that the Openreach estimates database and the BT Wholesale feed from it now track actuals much quicker on FTTC than they do/did on ADSLx.

There's a nasty chance that by the time the BT Wholesale checker gets the new data for the number that it will reflect what the OP is getting .

It's possible, but that wouldn't explain the apparent discrepancy between his stats and what his neighbours' checker results suggest is possible. If it's really 150m from the cab then 80/20 should be as easy as falling off a log.

Makes it a lot harder for any ISP to get anyone in BT Wholesale or Openreach to listen, even if the ISP can be persuaded to try.

BTW and OR now resist spending money to fix poor quality lines, even when it's clear there is a problem.

Yet, as part of BDUK, I know they've definitely improved the copper (or metal, anyway) in 2 villages here ... In order to improve the FTTC speeds.

I've uploaded a pic of where the cab is (bottom circle) and where my house is and the route the cable takes according to an Openreach Engineer that installed my fibre a few months ago in the house we just sold a few doors up. Distance from cab to house according to Google Earth is roughly 163m. Pic here.

The houses either side get late 60s to early 70s down and the house directly opposite over the road gets 72Mbps according to the guy I spoke to outside last night.

1. Need to see actual speed test results, have come across people who quote sales estimates rather than actual tests
2. Need to compare the attenuation values from the various households to see if similar
3. If the attenuation is vastly different then suggests for some historical reason your line is a lot longer, or the phone does not work and only one leg (1 wire from the pair) is working.

I'm planning on seeing the neighbours either side this weekend and asking if I can connect to their modem and perform speedtest. I'll post the results.

It is not just the speedtests results that are needed. You need to get the basic connection stats too: Use DSLStats, under Telnet Data the second level Tab Connection Stats then either take a save the text using the camera ICON or clipboard to copy and paste, and maybe the data under the Attenuation Log tab.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Makes it a lot harder for any ISP to get anyone in BT Wholesale or Openreach to listen, even if the ISP can be persuaded to try.

BTW and OR now resist spending money to fix poor quality lines, even when it's clear there is a problem.

My experience is that while I was able to get things fixed in roughly 2005 (and it took a voice line fault to do that), a similar problem in 2009 was the very devil to get resolved. In fact if it hadn't have been that some ne'erdowell made off with 1/4 mile of E-side cabling which had to be replaced then it may never have been. Loss of service for 4 days was worth it in the end

I'll get as much as I can. I don't know the neighbours very having only move din last friday but I've got until next Saturday anyhow as Plusnet won't even look at this until after the mythical '10 day training period'!!