Kents Hill is live now as I'm getting mine installed on Wednesday with Andrews & Arnold. Not sure who you've contacted but A&A are the only ones that have actually been keeping me updated about when I could get it so I've gone with them and their pricing is reasonable too. There's no point talking to Plusnet as they'll only let you know once you've joined them and Zen stopped responding once I mentioned price. You could give the company that have responded on here a go but you should definitely be able to get on with A&A. Only thing is you'll have to buy your own wireless N router if you don't already have one. The ones I've seen so far are between £30 - £60 or you can get one from them for £70 plus postage pre configured.

Afaik it doesn't need to be wireless N, just a router with a WAN port that can talk PPoE. I'm going to try it with my Pc first and make sure install works before spending on a router, I have a horrible feeling there'll be a problem with the site.

That is true it doesn't need to be wireless N but without it you can't make full use of the speed which is the reason I'm joining up. The forums I've been reading have been stating issues with the wireless G routers not being able to handle and make use of the speed so wireless N makes sense to me especially as I'll be looking to stream HD and download large files so would like to make use of the full downstream I have available. I will however be getting it started using an old Linksys wireless G router I have until payday when I can go out and get a new one.

FTTP has been installed and I'm up and running. Everything went smoothly and I'm loving the increase in speed. These are my before and after speedtests (tried to copy Speedtest.net images but didn't work):

ADSL: 2Mb down, 0.67Mb up
FTTP: 17.53Mb down. 10.64Mb up

Obviously I'm slightly disappointed after reading about people getting 70+ downstream and one guy on the plusnet forum has on multiple occasions got around 107Mb. Why would mine be so low? I'm not complaining just comparing to others on the same technology.

Thanks

My thinking is it's just busy speedtest servers. Try torrenting an ubuntu image with a high seeder ratio, that should max out your connection.

Alternatively, speedtest.bbmax.co.uk always seems to have plenty of bandwidth, I've tested 60Mb/s on decent networks.

Alex, are you wirelessly connecting? I'd guess you'd want to be wired to get best speedtest. Also think you have older router which maybe won't help?

Yeah you were right it was a combination of an older router and testing wireless on that router so I went out and bought a new Linksys WRT320N which has seen my speed increase to 89 down and 10.7 up wired and 20 down and 10.5 up wireless as my PC has an older wireless card in which only supports G but will be upgrading this shortly to an N compatible card which should see it increase nicely. Unfortunately my PC isn't in an ideal place to keep it permanently wired so will make do with whatever I get with the new router and adapter. I did however just download a quicktime player update from the Apple site and got an average 2.7Mbps and 32Mb was downloaded in 12 seconds, I definitely can't argue with that.

My installation went ahead yesterday, they had to use underground cameras to find what was causing a blockage, and when it was all connected up it didn't work and they had to come back today.

I'm connected using PPPoE from my PC at the moment but only getting 12.6 MB/s download. Does that sound right? Getting 6 to 7 times my speed of this morning should be something to be ecstatic about but I was hoping for a figure in the 90s!

Wondering if the CAT5 cable that goes from my PC to the FTTP box on the other side of the house could be an issue? Connection seems stable.

Hi,

Anyone Know if the FTTP trial is going anywere near Oldbrook MK62.

I used to work for an ISP so know my way around BTW,ADSL, LLU but have been waiting for ages to get fiber when they said it was bradwell abey exchange I thought at last but I carnt find any signs of it comming this way

Don't confuse bits(b) with bytes(B), 1 byte is 8 bits of information, so your figure of 12.6 MB/s is approx 100Mb/s.