Thanks for this. I did a little forum searching and it seems to be possible... https://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=141...

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Typical, there's people who would love the opportunity to have a true fibre connection ,that would make full use of the faster speeds, yet some of those who do have that opportunity don't take full advantage of it

You seem to think everyone uses the Internet the same way you do and you pillory anyone who doesn't calling them "crazy".

My brother is in a new build. Before FTTP was installed he had 2Mb/s ADSL. He had the choice of all the FTTP packages and chose the 40/10. The reason he chose it was that he is happy with that as a speed - it allows them to stream films, download games, etc at a speed that is enough for what they want. He sees no point in paying more for higher speeds that he doesn't need. That is not crazy.

I am different - if I had the choice of FTTP I would most likely go for the top package and I have considered moving to their estate to get it. However, I believe I could very easily be called crazy for moving to get that and for getting the top package which I wouldn't actually get that much more out of than my current FTTC connection.

I understand the technology. I am one of the lucky ones who has FTTP.

I work from home and am constantly connected to the office via VPN. All work calls are through an IP phone connection from my laptop. I backup my work laptop to a cloud server in real time. I often stream iPlayer for sport while I am working. I have never found the need for faster than an 80/20 connection although a symmetric connection would be nice. So paying for a faster connection in my case would be a waste of money. I do however appreciate the capability to switch to a faster connection in the future if the need arises.

People moan at those choosing 40/10 on FTTP but remember the connection speed is nailed to that figure, so in my case would triple my FTTC download speeds and double the upload.

Some recent data (not sure if its 1 user or an average) from Gigaclear shows people downloading 4x as much as they upload and that is on a symmetric service. Openreach reach is it an 8:1 ratio across the userbase.

Downloading xbox one upgrade to the Windows 10 UI (1GB file) and the download did not even saturate my slow 15 Mbps line and the install took as long as it took to download, so even if I had 1000 Mbps would have been no faster it seems.

Update: Requested the switch from Sky to Plusnet not long after creating this thread, and the switch was done on Dec 3rd without any trouble. Now getting about 20/25Mbps down instead of the 6/7Mbps before.

Hopefully the move in January will be as smooth!