For years I suffered Tiscali's dire 'service' and ignorant 'support', whilst struggling to get a mere 512kB/s from my adsl connection. After switching to Waitrose, the speed instantly doubled, but then the problem started again. After finally completely losing my temper with the chief technical advisor at Waitrose, they sent the BT chap round and guess what? I'd been connected to a 'telephone only - not for broadband' line!
My speed jumped to 3MB/s! This was the BIG time!
When we got ADSL2+ a couple of years ago, again my speed rose, this time to a previously unimaginable 4MB/s
However, every Christmas it got dropped to the old 2MB/s until about April, when it would slowly rise again. This year, I had been told we would get FTTC, but I never trust those types at BT (my brother is a supervisor there, so I know the shenanigins that go on). The next street up has had fibre since January and we are the last street before the town border, so why they left us for another 6 months is a mystery. They even lowered our speeds in January, to half what they were before.
However, upon checking my speed this morning with the BT checker, it told me we had finally been FTTC enabled! Did I cheer? Did I sing? Did I go running downstairs and do a little dance around the living room? Is the Pope a catholic?
One day early, too! Cue grab for phone to call Zen (my current ISP, after a spell with IDNet, who are very good, but also a bit dear).
Expected speed = 76 to 80 MB/s!!! Yup - we're very close to the cabinet and expect the top whack! I can't even imagine what that kind of speed is going to be like!
The Openreach guy is coming on the 8th July - so I'm going to go and do a speed test afterwards and come and post the results here. Get ready to party!
