My BT upload speed randomly increased

Dark Light · 6 Nov 2017 at 15:22

I am on upto 52mbit and today line dropped, so I checked the router to see if the sync speed had decreased and my upload has randomly increased to 16.63mbit.

Data rate: 16.63 Mbps / 48.55 Mbps
Maximum data rate: 16434 / 58915

Anyone else getting this?

Dark Light · 6 Nov 2017 at 15:34

ChrisD. said:
Isn't this part of the free bump everyone is getting? It's been widely discussed in the BT FTTC thread.

Never knew about a free bump, I looked in that thread didn't find anything.

Dark Light · 6 Nov 2017 at 15:50

ChrisD. said:
Current customers on 52/10 are getting upgraded to 78/19 or whatever it is.

Something free is nice, but it just leave me wondering why they are doing it. No one will now take their infinity 2 package.

Dark Light · 7 Nov 2017 at 14:26

Avalon said:
It’s an easy/cheap way to bump up your national average connection speed stats if perhaps some conditional funding existed based on them or you simply wished to show that you had fulfilled commitments you’d made to reaching a declared level or massage your stats to show improvements. The wholesale cost difference relative to the gains is cheaper/less labour intensive than actually laying fibre and getting people to pay for it etc.

Or it could be because they are planning to introduce two g.fast packages and don't want 5 didn't packages.