Hmm. Not good. Two out of the three equivalent to a relatively decent ADSL2+ service.
I would not be willing to pay my money for that.
I don't really have a lot of options available to me.
I'm genuinely too far from from the exchange to gain any benefit from ADSL2+ at a much lower cost. So I could go back to 1 Mb to save the money.
Cable isn't available in my area.
Satellite is far too expensive.
It's too hilly in my area to consider wireless.
As FTTC is available, it's unlikely that FTTH will be rolled out any time in the near future.
Despite providing lots of factual evidence & statistics to the contrary, Plusnet are convinced my connection needs no further repair works & is as good as it ever will be.
Although each time an engineer has found & fixed a fault, I was told the same (LTOK).
It's just a pity that the engineers have never fully re-tested the connection after carrying out the work.
The only evidence I cannot provide is actual statistics from when my connection was obviously working well.
My attenuation levels for the various band plans is very high. That high, that I have gained diddly squat from the newer higher frequencies.
It surely cannot have been any where near so high when I achieved the decent speeds can it?
The real annoying aspect is that my decent speeds were achieved back in the 8c profile days.
Everyone else who was achieving a little over 30 Mb on the 8c profile now appear to be achieving the full Monty after the switch to 17a, or at least very close to it.
It now seems that I'll just have to live in hope that one day a BT engineer might accidentally fix whatever is wrong with my connection, just like a BT engineer accidentally broke it & left me with no services at all back in July.
It cannot just be coincidence that speeds & stability were pretty good before that accident, & have never returned since.