At my current place the old adsl got me just under 2mb upload.

What sort of ADSL is that then ?

I'll be honest, I don't know. I was just going off the speed my router was stating I was getting.

I presume from your response that my router may have been giving me wrong figures 😄

Would the exchange line give better adsl speeds than one with a green box?

My response was because I was unaware of any (normal) ADSL circuits that give 2 meg up load.

Would the exchange line give better adsl speeds than one with a green box?

How long is a piece of string ? The 'green box' is just another large joint/junction, so doesn't make any more difference to the line than any other joint along the pairs length.

Adsl went live today.

12mb/s down
Just under 1mb/s up
28-30 ms ping on average

So I'm hoping with the above I should be ok for online gaming. The latency doesn't look that bad and that test was with wifi where as my ps4 is wired.

BT engineer seemed to think my situation was an advantage when fibre does finally hit me. He reckoned I'll get one of the fastest connections in the area of they let me have it due to my location and the connection type.

Weirdly he couldn't understand why I couldn't have fibre. He said my exchange has been upgraded and from what he could see it was all in place for my house. He was very surprised at this but didn't know how to get bt to check this or challenge it.

Any ideas anyone?

Given a postcode in public or via a private message then can look into your situation at greater depth than our checker does https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local

Sounds like a less-than-knowledgeable engineer, you do get them.

If you had 2mbit up on ADSL at your old house you had Annex M, Be Unlimited used to offer this, not sure about other ISPs offering it today.

If you are EO, you aren't going to be in any better position than anyone else for fibre. At 12mbit you are over a kilometre from the exchange, so if they put a cab just outside the exchange, you won't be seeing the high ends of the speed graph because 1km is a decent distance for VDSL.

For example, at ~600m, I get ~42-48meg on two lines. You won't be "one of the fastest in the area", as there will be people previously on lower speeds that happen to have the cab at the end of their drive now getting 80meg.

The link confirmed no Fibre at my address.

In reply to a post by nemeth782:

If you had 2mbit up on ADSL at your old house you had Annex M, Be Unlimited used to offer this, not sure about other ISPs offering it today.

Just additional info.

Annex M has been available on WBC for a couple of years or more, and several ISPs now offer it.

FTTC Range A (Clean) 60 39.8 16.3 9.9 -- Available
FTTC Range B (Impacted) 50.6 30 15.8 7.2 -- Available
WBC ADSL 2+ Up to 4 -- 3 to 7 Available
WBC ADSL 2+ Annex M Up to 4 Up to 0.5 3 to 7 Available
ADSL Max Up to 3.5 -- 2.5 to 6.5 Available
WBC Fixed Rate 1 -- -- Available
Fixed Rate 1 -- -- Available
Other Offerings
FTTP on Demand 330 30 -- Available
Fibre Multicast -- -- -- Available
Copper Multicast -- -- -- Available

Garbage figures there about it!

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 06-Nov-15 14:16:43)