I would like for all here to post the speed that they have now with BT to show the public the range of speeds that BT has over the UK now.

I have BT Infinity 2 with max speed of 54Mbps even with advert of up to 76Mbps

South Essex

Lucky you, the maximum I get is 29mbps out of the upto 38mbps due to the distance from the exchange.
I did receive a letter in May saying they were planning on upgrading the service to upto the new 52mbps from 3rd July and would let me know when it's completed.
IMO it was just a generic letter everyone on infinity 1 got so I'm not actually expecting any increase of speed anytime soon.

BT infinity speed is not governed by your distance from the exchange but by the distance to the infinity enabled cabinet. You seem to be one of the unlucky ones that are quite far from the cabinet. My cabinet is about 200 metres from my house and I get about 70Mbps which is pretty good.

We can only dream about those speeds!

Our cabinet has recently been upgraded to FTTC, but it's 4km from us, so we get 1 Mbps download & 0.34 Mbps upload.

Digital Scotland have told us that we are unlikely to get any improvement in the next few years. Our exchange area is long & narrow & unfortunately, we are situated at the wrong end of it.

Ian in a large village in The South West on Infinity 1 upto 52 Mbps and usually get between 48 and 51. This can drop to the low 40's at busy times.

Infinity 2. 30-52 down / 5-8 up.

Motherwell. Scotland.

S Hants, 310 metres line length from the cabinet.

9ms ping, 72.54Mbps down, 18.91Mbps up. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5470964497

Syncs at 76+ Mbps.

Modem connects at 77Mbps down, 20Mbps up I get about 72/18 in a speedtest. I am about 300 to 350m away from the cabinet as far as I can tell. I used to connect at about 65Mbps until G.INP was turned on.

I am not with BT, but this doesn't matter as it sounds like you are more interested in FTTC connection speeds where the ISP doesn't matter too much

If you are quite a distance fom the FTTC cab, then perhaps Infinity 2 isn't the product for you, and Infinity 1 may be better, the upload speed is lower than a Infinity 2, but it's now upto 52Mb download, not much less than your 54Mb, if you are not that far away, and your speed is lower than expected perhaps you need to check your internal wiring , presuming you had a self install, perhaps that's your speed is lower than expected,
If you want to know what speeds BT can offer, some FTTP areas can get 330Mb, but I don't think that's what you are after, if you are disappointed with 54Mb on an upto 76Mb service, then you have to consider how far you are from the cab, and compare what you get with the estimate you were given or can get on line using your number or postcode, it should give a clean and impacted estimate for your location

Infinity 2, speed test taken via 5GHz WiFi http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5471111226


Data rate: 20Mbit / 80Mbit

Maximum data rate: 34214 / 108770

Noise margin: 16 / 13.7

Line attenuation: 5.9

Latency type: Fast Path

Infinity 2
75 down / 17 up
South Cheshire
(About 100m from cabinet)

Think I pretty much maxed out.
my BT exchange is just the next road with the FTTC boxes out side.
I wonder when they might make infinity 2 faster?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/5471303652.png

Then in that case, according to BT the cabinet I'm connected to is 482.8 meters away and that cabinet is 2 miles away from the exchange if that makes any difference at all.
My fathers house however is 321.8 meters from their cabinet which is 1.4 miles from the same exchange and gets the full Infinity 2 speed.

I'm about 250yds from the cabinet and I get 76Mb down and 20 up, more than happy with that. The only other isp that could tempt me away is if Virgin rolled out FTTP to my area in the future as they cabled up my street only in March. I live in hope

Although your speeds are slightly lower than what you could expect for a near 500m line length your dad has a near 300m line length, line length to the cab makes a big difference and you have 160m more of it. You could be on an aluminium line he could be on copper, his might be a perfect line yours might have joints in it and the straight line distance to the a cab or exchange isn't the same as the actual line length so your distances may or may not be much further.

I am 50 meters from the cab but the cab is 3 miles from the exchange and i get full whack, the cab to exchange distance makes no difference, that's the point of the fibre.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1708536126

I have opposite issue. I can see the exchange out my back window. I used to get 24 meg from standard adsl. However now on inf 2 I am getting at best max inf 1 speed 52/8 but usually 30s. I think I know where the cabinet is and it's at least double the distance that the exchange is.

Line length is not really an issue for me:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5476934918

Infinity 1 over FTTP (awaiting upgrade to 52Mbps).

Really, if all was right in the country, FTTP would have been the default. But it isn't. It's still mostly copper. Not a lot any of us can do about that.

thanks for your postings....
So far it looks as it's down to what package. distance from the cab and to the exchange and the UK has wide range of speeds just on BT network .

Please keep posting the speeds so we all see the real speeds that we all get not just the advert speeds.

UK needs a real change in way we get internet as I know we have speeds from 1Mbps to 1Tbps in the UK and that's just too wide range on a small group on Islands like the UK.

1Tbps? Maybe in core network backbone links but not to homes.

Even for the people who can get FTTP, 1Gbps is the high water mark for residences. If you're a business with deep pockets you can already have whatever you want, no matter where you live

I kinda think you have a basic mis-understanding of the physics of ADSL/VDSL (other than FTTH/FTTP,) the distance from the exchange for ADSL or the FTTC cab for VDSL is the biggest factor in what speed is achievable , there is no getting away from the fact if you are a long way away from the exchange or FTTC cab, then you are not going to get the headline speed, in your own case, presumably you were given a predicted speed, if you were happy enough with that (even if it were less than the headline speed) you sign up, if you are not happy you don't, simple as that, if the line performs worse than the estimate, you report it, and if they cannot achieve the estimate, you can leave penalty free,
I'm not sure what value is gained by a straw poll of who gets what speed, if it's the advertising that annoys you, what would you suggest as an 'honest' way of advertising broadband ?
As far as ' UK needs a real change', that would require fibre to the home/premises, were the speed is not dependent on distance, but who would pay for it ?, would you be prepared to pay a lot more for your internet especially as current broadband is not charged for truthfully , the real cost hidden behind the wholesale /retail mark up of 'line rental', people expect broadband for peanuts per month, ignoring the fact that their provider probably charges double what they get pay OR for wholesale line rental

Same deal for me. I get ~30 down and ~7 up on a good day, presumably because I'm on an overhead line connection. When I did ask sometime ago about Infinity 2 I was told that the maximum my line would support would be ~42 down. OK BT, obviously my line will go a bit faster, so how about it? I got the email about the upgrade to 52mbps happening sometime after 3/7, but so far no real improvement at all.

Sigh

Clem

our cab is round the corner and we can hit over 90meg but average high 70's

The cost savings from not having to maintain thousands of exchange buildings, a 30 year old telephone system and an ancient, rotting copper network, perhaps.

Or the long term income from being able to use the network for just about everything, from 40Mbit to cheapskate home users to 10Gbit to big businesses with deep pockets.

Openreach and BT aren't realistically in poverty. They've got the cash for the stuff they want to do

BT infinity advertised as up to 75 mb and i get around 74/18 wired. Very happy with that but i am within a cpl hundred yards of green box.

Wireless is total shit and can't get any signal upstairs.

Croydon, South London.