Each one is an appointed task for a set date. I guess there were no available appointments (to prevent overbooking and failing jobs)

That would have been mine being done, I was down from about 11:50 until 12:40

Just got mine activated

77.9 down 18.5 up. Very impressed.

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6818949320

Must be much closer than me!

If that is VDSL2/FTTC then the speed test is over reading the figures as 76 Mbps is the maximum.

Yes its FTTC... I can try a different speed test this evening, any recommendations?

In reply to a post by wheeler:

Yes its FTTC... I can try a different speed test this evening, any recommendations?

Right here. https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest is my preferred one.

My results from that one...

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/15114685735...

Does that suggest 79.4Mbps as the peak speed and 73.8Mbps as average?

The peak speed in your case is just an effect from some buffering/av/firewall software most likely, but the graph explains why you got the high figure from the other tester.

The 73.8 Mbps is a plain old median average, the burst is the 85th percentile speed and some other testers do tend towards using that figure because of a theory that it will reflect the connection speed.

wget -O /dev/null http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/512MB.zip
--2017-11-23 20:28:01-- http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/512MB.zip
Resolving ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com (ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com)... 80.249.99.148
Connecting to ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com (ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com)|80.249.99.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 536870912 (512M) [application/zip]
Saving to: �/dev/null�

100%[========================>] 536,870,912 8.86MB/s in 58s

2017-11-23 20:28:59 (8.85 MB/s) - �/dev/null� saved [536870912/536870912]

That tells me I'm getting at least 70.8Mbps - which is good enough for me considering the BTO line checker gives VDSL Range A (Clean) 'high' of 59Mb

The PlusNet router shows 'connection' speeds of 80/20Mb - out of interest what are the overheads which take the connection from 80Mb max to 76Mb max?

Edited by MrSaffron (Fri 13-Dec-19 18:49:55)