Hello from (fairly) sunny Wales!
My phone and broadband (with Plusnet) were enabled a few weeks ago, and as expected the speed is poor. That said, it's been reliable and so far hasn't disconnected or given me problems.
An Openreach engineer had to come along, the line wasn't connected at the cabinet (he said), and I took the opportunity to get him to move the phone socket to the living room (it was in the kitchen). So I know it's a good connection and there's no rogue extensions anywhere, just the one new NTE5C socket.
My stats :
5 - Mode ADSL
6 - Uptime: 0 days 00:17:58
UP/DOWN
7 - Data rate: 448/1920
8 - Maximum data rate: 616/2080
9 - Noise margin: 10.0/7.2
10 - Line attenuation: 31.5/57.5
I've fitted a MK4 filter faceplate, and fiddled about with some different wires, but these stats are pretty stable and I couldn't seem to get any improvement. I'm just a long way from the exchange.
There's a useful campaign to improve broadband speeds in Wales, Superfast Broadband Wales
https://beta.gov.wales/go-superfast and their site FAQ had a question regarding the very situation that I'm in - Broadband area, but no capacity. It suggested I email them, which I did, and today I received a reply that said, basically, it was a case of waiting, but that my address has been forwarded to someone (unsure who!) which implied I was now on a waiting list.
My neighbour has 40mb fibre, so here's hoping!
Other news is I've been mad busy sorting everything out, everyone I've met so far has been really friendly, the scenery here is wonderful, and I've been planting lots of flowers in pots and troughs and containers to brighten up the garden that's all paving slabs. I'd have set up gardencam again, but a) I've been very busy and b) 448 upload speed is not ideal conditions for running a self-hosted website.
Ian
ps if anyone has any thoughts as to what I might try to squeeze a little more data speed out of the line, I'm happy to hear them, but I'm resigned to waiting for the extra capacity to be available.