I can just about live with the 3meg when I'm the only one in the house using it, but more often than not it's at least two or three of us which kills it. One person surfing and another streaming is no fun, especially as at my last place in Derker we were getting The thick end of 76/19 with zero shaping or traffic management.

BT attempted to rig out our cab on April 30th apparently, but couldn't do it because of the steep incline it's on and also the heavy rain. Not sure exactly why this was a problem, but Oldham Council has prevented BT from coming back until a review period of three months is finished. All bureaucratic as far as I can see, but it means we won't see FTTC here this year. So it's VM or nothing.

I'll post the performance tests on here when the engineer hands it over to me.

Doesn't surprise me for oldham council !!

It's something called a Section 58 which gives Councils the power to prevent road excavations going ahead if there's other work planned or if it might cause problems in the area.

It does make me think that broadband provision should be a factor to consider when moving home, if the internet is important, which let's face it, it is.

BT is generally unhelpful when you call, but speaking with BT Wholesale or Openreach directly is cool. Given I work for an ISP I have the luxury of knowing who to speak to, even though all I got was bad news.

Is the whole of the est able to use shaw loop. Ran post office on oldham at 63db+ atten would of switched if it was possable. Sayin that got 32ms day an night to bbc on post office damp copper tech

Not sure to be honest. I know that 75% of my street are FTTC, but the remaining 25% (including us) fell foul of the April visit. What was misleading was that samknows.com reported that the BT line was FTTC enabled (not just the post code), but it clearly isn't. That's dented my opinion on their availability checker.

My number when checked a couple o years ago said i think 16mb but i went vm as my option back then was trail fttc on plusnets 60gb peak adsl2 package. With 5 kids that anit a option so had to go vm to get more than 1.7mb unlimted, finger crossed latency stays bareable on vm an fttc fttp mature even more before switch back to the better vdsl latency kit. Was nice to see sky an co move to fttc for better unlimted packages

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The latency only really affects my Son, who's the gamer. I'm more concerned with streaming and downloads etc, so it's the bandwidth I'm interested really.

Only got to wait until Saturday to find out. At least there's no 'settling' period with cable. You get what you get straight away.

Well i dont get no moaning from my 2 boys playin theres an mine. Am picky with latency because i only play battlefield 1943 an only fly in planes so i notice when jitter gets touch an go. Overall for gaming it anit bin to bad an if the improvment stays for good which when jus checked is still looking mighty fine

Bandwidth same. only stressful night i remember is bout month ago when netflix wouldnt hd an was swicthing from low med high streams constantly. Could of bin out of hands as all else was good at time. Running hd netflix to xbox an pc 37in past few nights with mobs an odd other download all with out any pc tech help from the un paid dude called day.

So your use to speaking to BTw. Open reach then. Throw that book out window an get your self on rosseta.com an learn the lingo. Bandwidth an speedtestnet are the only two english words most overseas reps know. Network fault teams seem to b hidden deep in cave as not yet found a rep that can talk direct to um in any other form than clicking to book a vist. even ceo office failed to keep to word when told a network engnier would fone to discuss the latency issue that got pretty bad for few months which made for unhappy top gun momments. Use to slate btw when i was with plusnet but learned the truth when i found vm comunity an 150

Haha yeah that just about sums it up.

I'm kinda excited to be back getting fast speeds again. I just hope it's reliable! I do expect some level of traffic management (it's only the same as BT), but I hope when they say it's up to 60meg, I get nearer that than where I am now on ADSL.

I hope I'm not disappointed, but it sounds promising, based on the fact you have a decent QoS and live fairly nearby. Saturday morning can't come soon enough!

Well, so far so good. The engineer came early and I'm up and running.

Current downstream is 61Mb and 3Mb upstream. Pings to news.bbc.co.uk return an average of a 16ms round trip.

Streaming nice and smooth with Sky Go and I'm about to try downloading a monster file. One I own