Cant get Be at my exchange, but hopefully i can get full 20Mb on Sky, thats if my line isn't routed all over the place, instead of straight to the exchange.

General preference I think is for BT to follow roads and as the railway line often pre-dates the phone network, longer routes are common.

If an electric line the interference can be horrendous from overhead or third rail contacts too

In reply to a post by tommy_boi:

Only reason i put this is i'm in a temp house right now and about 1.2km from the exchange, getting around 12Mb, but i'm moving soon and it says the exchange is only 343 metres away on the samknows site, would it be possible i could get the full 20Mb, and is there anything faster about?.

Sam knows can be a real issue at times its give you a straight distance from the xchange to your house, but the actual cable length could be anything, so in fact YOU could be about 5 miles from it.

I used to work for BT and the amount of time I heard engineers bitching that customers give them a hard time over this very fact.

One example New house built ( say in last 10 years) the cable routed to them goes from exchange to 3 different area before it reached you, so even tho you 500 meters away you could very well be 5 miles away in cable length. It cheaper to extend a cable than lay a new one ... a lot cheaper.

I think the house we are moving to is about 7 years old, the house i am in now, it said on samknows my line was 1.27km away straight line distance, and the cable was i think around 2km away the engineer said, i suppose its all about luck then, i could move to this house and be much much closer to the exchange than i am now, or i could be much much further away?.

Edited by deleted (Fri 30-Sep-11 21:00:17)

I get the full 20Mb speed as I live about 400m from the exchange and when I was with BT, I got the full 8Mb. So I must have good quality wires between here and there.

I would say i should get the full 20Mb when i move to my new place, as its only 343 metres from the exchange, but like people on here said, the line length could be 5 miles long, and knowing my luck, it probably will be.

I was getting the full 20mb, had my SNR tweaked down to 3dB, with Att: 25dB - Loop length comes in around 1500m

I get 17.5 meg and I about 1.3 to 1.6 km away

i live 688meters away and only get http://www.speedtest.net/result/1531105307.png

Edited by deleted (Wed 12-Oct-11 19:42:27)

Would think you would get much more than that, at the moment i live 1.27km away and get about 11Mb, but when i move soon i will be only about 350 metres away so i'm hoping for much more than that, but i guess it is pot luck on how long the line is, i am guessing you have a long line even though you are close to the exchange?.