Sudden connection speed increase!

I am still on bog-standard EO ADSL and suddenly over this weekend my connection/sync speed increases from 6.3Mbps to 10.88. Upload improves from 0.4Mbps to 1.061

The distance to my exchange is a little over 3km on good old vintage copper! So, why this sudden improvement? Download speeds on Speedtest.net increase from 6.3Mbps to 9.4. Upload from 0.4 to 0.9. Ping speed remains more or less the same at 33ms. Line attenuation and noise remain the same as ever.

Any ideas please?

The most likely explanation is that your exchange has just been upgraded by BT Wholesale from ADSL Max to WBC ADSL2+.

Thanks Bob but not according to Sam Knows and www.telephone-exchange.co.uk

Tetford, Lincolnshire, is the one in question!

Are you on ADSL Max as far as you know? Because your new speeds that you gave are impossible on that. They are typical of ADSL2+.

The link you give asks for postcode. That isn�t much use to me. Clearly samknows isn�t up to date. It does show Tetford as ADSL Max only, which in fact proves my previous post is correct.

BT Wholesale is in the process of upgrading all such exchanges to WBC (21CN). Scroll down this article to the quote from a Press Release or slide showing a map and giving details. Plus the first paragraph summary.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 16-Jul-18 09:05:29)

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/exchanges/sltf

We have seen it get ADSL2+

Just did a check on BT Wholesale ADSL checker for LN9 6QQ (first postcode I found in Tetford) and that checker is showing ADSL2+ availability. Looks like your hunch is probably correct and it has done a recent move and Samknows hasn't caught up.

Your (MrSaffron�s to distinguish from the OP Andrew) link also shows it as Market B, while samknows continues with the long-dead Market 1 .

Well thanks all. I appear to be on ADSL2+ according to my ISP but I was unaware of the improvement until this weekend purely by an obvious improvement in browsing speed.

Mr. Saffron's info appears to be more up to date than others!!