Just attached. Would be on the glorious Fibre if it was available, but lost it when switched Jan last year from EE. Hoping it'll be available by the time our contract has ended in June next year with BT, as what pay now for this damn connection, could be paying Vodafone just £2 more for the full 78mbit.
Your best bet to getting on FTTC again would be to monitor the DSL Checker daily and wait for it to show available. I read somewhere on this forum that the waiting list is not actually a queue, but rather first come first served as soon as soon as it becomes available. If an ISP has an order pending availability on their system for a customer, depending on when that ISP queries the database for availability, you could essentially get in before them if you order as soon as it becomes "available". If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
But that G.fast planned is interesting!
Since the pilot is pretty much over, the national rollout has begun. Quite a few cabinets (including my own) are showing "planned", but there is not much information in reference to when it will actually be enabled. A typical G.fast deployment (according to Openreach) can take around 3 months, but with other variables it could take longer.
ADSL Max is available along with ADSL2+. I think maybe we must of been on the ADSL2+ around the end of last year as the connection went up from 3.5mbit to 4.5mbit for a while, but then it's come back to the 3.5mbit it was before. Will damn well have to be onto BT about that then if that's the case, as being on ADSL Max is not what we're paying for when the ADSL2+ is available.
You should query BT in reference to your broadband connection if you are not sure. I am a bit perplexed as I am not aware of any capping that BT do on their ADSL2+ connections for upstream sync speed, and nor I am aware of any banding on upstream. I should note that I do not have ADSL any more, and it has been a few years since I had it last.
There is a post on a Plusnet forum (
https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/Stuck-on-G-DMT/m-p/1153950/highlight/true#M274608) that may provide some insight into whether you are on 20CN or 21CN connectivity (the former will be ADSL Max, and the latter will be technology capable of ADSL2/2+ modulation).
You may have seen 4.5 Mbps in the past when your SNR margin was lower (perhaps it used to be 6 dB), but if you have experienced a lot of errors or disconnections exceeding speficied thresholds on the DLM defined by your stability profile then you may have lost some of that speed as the parameters have been adjusted to induce stability. I can see that in one of your screenshots it is showing a SNRM of 14.2 dB, so the target is most likely 15 dB currently.
What I don't get about the availablity though. I understand the VDSL capacity is at the limit, so unless someone comes off or it got upgraded, can't get it. But if I put 5 at the end instead of 9 in the telephone number, it shows the exact same cabinet, cabinet 5, same exchange etc.. But it says VDSL is available at 25mbit down/2mbit up speeds. That I really do not get.
I am not an expert with the DSL Checker, but it could be an error with their database. Perhaps someone here can give more an insight into that. Regardless, you could still enquire with BT (since you are still in contract with them) if you think it is available on your cabinet and they should be able to query Openreach directly in regards to that. It could be your lucky day!
Perhaps you could specify which exchange you are on? I can see you've listed your cabinet above, but no reference to the exchange!