In reply to a post by B31:

Yeah, they did this on my broadband

It was estimated at 6 Mbps when I signed up.

It now states 1-1.5 Mbps!

(in ITN fashion) And how does that make you feel?

BT's estimate for me has always been around the same despite me getting MUCH high speeds. Here's what the BT checker estimates:

High Low High Low
FTTC Range A (Clean) 55.1 35 14 8.3

Here's what I'm actually sync'd at:

Attainable Rate (Kbps) 67874 18116
Rate (Kbps) 67893 18093

BT estimates seem to be way out for my cab (SWTB - Cab3) - most of my neighbours get similar if not higher speeds to me.

Edited by WelshWArrior (Mon 23-Nov-15 08:43:01)

Yes indeed it's a bit of a daft rant, FTTC has been a bit step up for a lot of people, and for a great many it does the job very well.

Despite the fact that our FTTC service was over 12% slower than the initial estimate, it's over ten times faster than our ADSL service was. I've since dropped from an 80/20 to a 40/10 service as I didn't really see the need to pay for something which we only partially got. But it suits the household just fine, in a way the old ADSL service definitely didn't!

Edited by binary (Mon 23-Nov-15 21:50:08)

Agreed, we finally got our FTTC last week and we went from link speeds of 3.5 on a good day to 39. This was after well over a year of waiting to be allowed to order. I see no reason to go any higher, after all at busy times I only get about 15 throughput in any case.

Sadly I will have to start all over again next summer as we will be moving to a place which has no current plan for FTTC, is many miles from the exchange and 3 miles from the cabinet so not likely to get usable FTTC in any case unless they build a closer cabinet. We'll be lucky to get 3mbps then so back to the bad old days. FTTP? I doubt it in my lifetime.