Long line

I am on a long line - 4.5km from cabinet. How can I find out if any plans anytime for new cabinet to service my area and / or I have seen various reference to "new technologies" to increase speed over a long line on ADSL. Really difficult trying to get specific information.
BTW, am getting about 3 Mb at the moment download. Tried faster broadband but speed dropped off cliff and went to 0.75Mb!

Talk to the team running your local authority BDUK project to see if you are in their later phases maybe

VDSL2 if 4.5km from the cabinet would not sync at all in my opinion so 0.75 Mbps would be pretty amazing. The words faster broadband make it sound like a different technology to Infinity but it is just a marketing ploy nothing different technically.

Thanks for the quick response, appreciated.
Can you advise how I "talk to the local team"? Who are they and how do I contact??

Thanks,

Oh, btw, you are correct about syncing issues - the line dropped every few minutes, hundreds of errors every day!

Need to know the name of the town/village you live in to be more specific than saying Minister for Digital Matt Hancock

Who is your ISP?

What router are you using?

Ravenstruther near Lanark, Scotland - Postcode ML11 7TE

ISP is BT, router is their home hub 5

https://news.gov.scot/news/gbp-600-million-for-broad...

Scottish Government just announced next big phase that will run to 31st December 2021 and existing BT contract will keep delivering during 2018 but no sign of it helping you.

Think you count as central Scotland so would put you in Lot 2
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7912-three-lots-...

Home Hubs tend not to be wondeful on long lines.

They may be old, but the original BT supplied 2-wire 2700HGV (not 2701) was the best for long unstable lines. You may want to try investing £5 or so on ebay to get one and see if your line improves. I upgraded a friend using one and he saw a 35 to 40% improvement in download speeds.

That postcode gives the address of HUNTLYBANK LANE, RAVENSTRUTHER, LANARK, ML11 7TE on Exchange CARSTAIRS is served by Cabinet 2

In reply to a post by GrahamkMurray:

Ravenstruther near Lanark, Scotland - Postcode ML11 7TE

Weird when I check some of those properties it estimates 80meg and cabinet 2?

E.g. number 1 gives me 80 meg
https://i.imgur.com/kFV0gvp.png

Edited by ukhardy07 (Thu 21-Dec-17 21:58:37)

Hence why I don't blindly copy the BT wholesale estimates when doing coverage percentages

e.g. ML11 8QE which is 2km away from posters postcode is given same predictions and cabinet 2 is at https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.6957413,-3.6902555...

The data given to Ofcom supports the cabinet being where it physically is, so answers on a postcard are...

1. Mistake
2. Maybe an infill cabinet about to appear - but this is not the usual pattern
3. BT Wholesale checker has broke itself again

Never seen the checker be THIS wrong before, kind of shocking. I didn't get chance to dig down physical location of cabinets, certainly interesting.

If BT Wholesale have it logged down as getting full fibre speeds, will it be categorised as being super fast when it really isn't?!

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Never seen the checker be THIS wrong before, kind of shocking.

I've seen the checker be this wrong several times before. It was always full 80/20 for houses with nearest cabinets >4km away so clearly errors in the database.