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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: waltergmw on April 12, 2012, 09:55:58 AM
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Gentlefolk,
I'm delighted to say a degree of reality has entered BT's speed announcements as they now quote maximum achievable download speeds instead of the Maximum sync speeds.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2012/04/11/bt-doubles-download-speeds-for-infinity-broadband-40154990/?s_cid=115
However I strongly suspect that those, even if they have paid for "option 2", will be decidedly underwhelmed if their lines perform as well as Bald_Eagle1's does.
Once again it shows how invaluable the unlocked modem's data is to end users.
Might I suggest it is high time that Ofcom persuaded our incumbent to do the decent thing in this respect also ?
Kind regards,
Walter
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A somewhat welcome piece of news that they (BT) are at last stating some more realistic speeds.
As for unlocked modems as standard I feel would be a most unwise move. When one reads the garbage that many an unitiated, grubby fingered termite writes about their equipment. Unfortunately for the sensible and knowledgeable it is just another hurdle to overcome. Now that providers are locking down some of their units, the forums are filling up with gripes other than the stats say this that and the other.
I whole heartedly agree with one response, the one about BT giving all to those that already have. It's about time they started giving to those that have not.
Thanks for the post Walter.
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What might be useful could be a modem officially unlocked in order to see & harvest the stats (incredibly useful for trouble-shooting purposes), but disable the ability to change any settings.
Anyone could almost believe that it was fully known that many FTTC connections would be simply incapable of performing at anywhere near 40Mb, never mind 80Mb, due to the sorry state of BT's infrastructure (D-side cabling).
An easy way round that is to to hide the evidence & "blame" any speed issues on contention/cross-talk/noise etc.
Combined with a relatively low FTR, what hope do users really have of resolving connection problems?
I suppose OFCOM fully approves the deceitful decision to hide all connection stats from the people that actually pay to use FTTC connections?
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May be things have changed in 12 months since the last BT engineer visited. I was told point blank the worst areas would be done first, thats why my cab was uprgraded 17 months ago.
Wish i could have got 1mb on ADSL2+ and even then suffered packeting and hundreds of dropouts per day. Mean while listening to those moaning about speed drops from 6 to 3meg. Different now the boots on the other foot.