In reply to a post by WilliamGrimsley:

Sorry, did you just say you get 1.5 - 2.0 Mbps on a FTTC connection? Please explain why you upgraded?

No, I said friend, whose connection I sorted out, get that.

Why upgrade - 30% improvement in download, a 50% improvement in upload and stability are three reasons. It may not sound much for someone on 40, 50, 60 Mbps however it allows him to work from home.

Oh right.

VDSL is more unstable than ADSL at those speeds.

Edited by deleted (Sat 18-Mar-17 15:07:53)

Not from what we are seeing - loss of sync is a rare occurrence whereas before it was very common. There is also a lot less chance of loss of service due to the cable routing.

Interesting, maybe I read that from a source in the early days of VDSL. Though, isn't VDSL2 more suseptible to interference than ADSL?

Interference yes, and also the drop off ... 3km of VDSL certainly performs better than 9km of ADSL and is annoying as the house to exchange is just over 0.5km straight line!

It is worth trying it out.

Mine was sync'd with a 3dB margin and as the noise levels varied during the day that would slowly dip and at one point I recorded it, still in sync and giving near full speed for the line with a margin of -0.7 yes minus. Once sync'd they do hold on to the line.

In reply to a post by arronlowley:

has anyone got a new mk4 faceplate and a new master socket? if so has it impacted your speed at all and given it a bump?

I had mine installed about 4 months ago with my new line. Had no problems. Solid 80/20 on a little 8800NL ever since.

I believe their was a policy introduced that if an Openreach visit to the property was required then one of the steps they had to take was to replace the current NTE5 master socket with the NTE5C master socket version. Happened to us, as we had the MK2 which was then upgraded to the NTE5c with the MK4 faceplate

Seems to be able to keep a long ADSL line (G.DMT, approx. 1.5Mbps sync) connection up for around 25-30+ days.

Not for us. When I had fibre installed last November, the Kelly Engineer just fitted a Mk3 faceplate on what must be a 29 year old NTE5.

Just wondered if you had any luck with the 2700? Did it improve things or not?