I actually fix faults with FTTC (and ADSL) for a living so I kind of know a little bit about how it works, and the limitations of it and how it is hard capped at 80Mbps.

And yes, I do also use the service myself.

Rather than call you a liar, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you are mistaken.

What possible motive have you got for not posting a screenshot? - I think we all know that

BT aren't going to have 76Mbits on their Infinity site and then give you 100Mbits. Unless you link to the result of your speed test, you shouldn't be surprised if you're not believed.

I agree. It would be a simple thing to do.

mark6226

Unless that copyright spat about DLM ment BT removed the caps or BT ****ed up something on your cabinet IE no 80/20 profile cap. you ain't getting any faster than 80/20.

I gotta also say that when I first got FTTC My line would of been capable of something like 100/30 , but it's always been capped at 80/20 and for a few months it had a nice high SNR margin, now over time and half the street has FTTC it's been crosstalked down to 55/19.

unless your line is exceptionally short as people move to FTTC your line speed will fall.

This is what its coming to in regards to service, on initial roll-out there was so much to it, the engineer was officially given 3 hours for a job, so he could come in get a clean line from outside, and sort out your internal wiring get you your Master socket to a preferred location, AND setup your devices. Now the same job is cut to an hour, how can you expect quality from that? and now even worse, now they have even done away with an engineer visit and if anyone complains they will send the engineer out on a fault and expect to have all that should have been done on an installation done then and thats if the engineer is even willing to do it.

I had a sub contractor install mine , he installed on obsolete external wiring all was fine for a few weeks until the bad weather started. The connection continually dropped ruining my profile and making the connection unusable.

Support over the phone was shocking , in the end I got an engineer out via the BT community forum.

An Openreach engineer installed a new line and my router has been synced at 80/20 ever since.

Well, that may depend on how those initial 3-hour jobs worked out. If they planned 3 hours to begin with but then found that most could be done in 1 hour, and only the exceptional ones needed the full 3, it makes sense to schedule 1 hour, and only do the big job is necessary.

It's like the early fibre connections, jointing them took hours with special equipment, but over time they learned how to simplify it with improved tools. Now, jointing fibre in a muddy manhole is all in a normal day's work.

Let me guess ..................