It may be the case that you are directly connected to the exchange and the exchange needs to be upgraded.
Who is still stuck with ADSL??
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It may be the case that you are directly connected to the exchange and the exchange needs to be upgraded.
The BT checker is more accurate, so it looks like you'll be waiting. Bummer.
The solution for exchange only lines is to install a new cabinet along the route or reroute the telephone lines to an existing cabinet. Apparently installing the hardware inside the exchange drowns out the ADSL frequencies.
That's not what happened with me. My line is connected directly to the exchange (Denburn) and I'm getting 80 Mbps+ on VDSL. For the longest time they said they couldn't upgrade me to BT Infinity because I was directly connected to the exchange - I even asked about the cost of installing a cabinet - and then they upgraded the exchange and so I got my high-bandwidth internet.
(The cost of installing a cabinet is £25-50K, which divided amongst all the flats in the block wouldn't be too unreasonable.)
It's a shame those services are no longer offered, although I suppose it must be due to a lack of demand in part. What's been installed here is a local omni 4G antenna, and you get a externally mounted directional antenna. A little bit messy, would much prefer something in the ground that isn't going to be capped at ~50mbps and susceptible to interference.
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13mbps here. Fttc is available but the cabinet is full and would only get 20mbps anyway. The exchange is on the edge of the village so adsl isn't too bad. Openreach installed the fibre cabinet just up the road from the exchange still right on the edge of the village. Guess it was the cheapest way of doing it. Half the village don't get much improvement over adsl.
At that distance I would've thought you would get higher speeds, I was getting 5mb on a 3km line. Is this normal ADSL? Not even ADSL2+?
Sorry i ended up making a gross miscalculation and used google maps for the distance and turns out it's actually a mile more,my bad.
So many places I've been to where people are stuck on ADSL and I can get like 70Mbit down, 25Mbit up and 30-40ms latency on 4G - sucks that 4G though can be problematic in terms of bandwidth limits and consistency of the connection otherwise might give BT more impetus to upgrade the network.
I'm on 10mbps here, only fibre in my area is with Virgin, thinking of moving over to 100mbps with them later this year, on wifi only at the moment, but have some TP-Link powerline(AV1200 with wifi) to play with (coming today)so I can have wired on the third floor where my PC is, the router is on ground floor, house has been recently rewired with new electrical cable so hoping I get the same wifi speed at the very least 
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In a small village called Scholes in Leeds. We are all stuck on between 2MB - 5MB with no future in sight for anything faster. Just to be clear, thats the speed of "Fibre" in this area as both our cabinet and exchange are absolutely miles away. Working from home makes this even harder to stomach. Keeping my fingers crossed that Virgin cable up around here soon enough. I think theres over 200 registrations on their site currently and we are right next to a cabled area.
Yes been stuck on ADSL forever it seems anything between 6-9MB it makes it own mind up these days.
It been an interesting year though firstly started with Gigaclear campaigning in my village a year ago getting the sign ups fast forward a year and they seemed to have halted installation. I have badgered them via email they said they would let sign ups know what has happened and updates website one month later nothing has happened.
Secondly on roadworks.org it said Virgin Media was going to fibre up everywhere in the village now it turns out that has gone now.
Funnily enough BT have been installing there fibre but works are continuing in August it been going on for about four months I do wonder if BT have some kind of monopoly over the rest of these companys on Fibre installation.
It been an interesting year though firstly started with Gigaclear campaigning in my village a year ago getting the sign ups fast forward a year and they seemed to have halted installation. I have badgered them via email they said they would let sign ups know what has happened and updates website one month later nothing has happened.
Secondly on roadworks.org it said Virgin Media was going to fibre up everywhere in the village now it turns out that has gone now.
Funnily enough BT have been installing there fibre but works are continuing in August it been going on for about four months I do wonder if BT have some kind of monopoly over the rest of these companys on Fibre installation.
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One of the company directors where I work is in a similar position. In the end we set her up with an EE USB 4G device and she uses that for VPN. She gets about 22mb/ps versus 1mbps on her broadband connection.
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If you have 17Mbps on ADSL you can probably see the exchange.
yeah, SKY had told me in the past its like 100 meters away from my flat.
Still on ADSL here, fairly built up area too,. to the extent that the ADSL2+ capacity on some cabs is full, so when people move to the area sometimes it takes them months for a port to become available!
Pretty crazy to think I had a faster connection over 10 years ago when living elsewhere.
Pretty crazy to think I had a faster connection over 10 years ago when living elsewhere.