Ultim8um
Casual Member
We have a double street cab just up the road from us (it is towards one end of our street) but it only seems to cover premises that have a copper line from its adjacent telephone pole (according to the BT Broadband Ultrafast checker)? I have checked and if I put in any of the house numbers served by this pole / cabinet then I could apparently order G.fast from BT immediately!?!? The street cab doesn't appear to have a G.Fast pod attached either? I have checked various property numbers against the ultrafast checker and it seems it is only this cluster at the end of our street that are allegedly enabled? We are connected to the Donnington exchange in Telford.
Any body know if this is normal? What is the usual range from cab to premises that would give a good speed (I get 74Mb on Infinity 2 which is the fastest I can get or a fairly steady 9MB's downloading from Steam for comparison) on G.Fast? I assume as we currently get 74Mb+ that we should also get a pretty decent speed from G.Fast...? The only reason I am posting this is that we are at the end of our contract with TalkTalk anyway and its only £28 a month for Ultrafast 1 vs £25+for what we have now.
Any body know if this is normal? What is the usual range from cab to premises that would give a good speed (I get 74Mb on Infinity 2 which is the fastest I can get or a fairly steady 9MB's downloading from Steam for comparison) on G.Fast? I assume as we currently get 74Mb+ that we should also get a pretty decent speed from G.Fast...? The only reason I am posting this is that we are at the end of our contract with TalkTalk anyway and its only £28 a month for Ultrafast 1 vs £25+for what we have now.