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Moving so having to change provider

Bigyinuk

Pro Member
Hi.

Currently I'm on a 108mbps Virgin service which seems pretty good tbh. We're moving soon and it looks as though all that's available is BT's FTTC services. I'm a bit confused by all the different speeds quoted by BT and other suppliers. For example BT say their "Fibre 1" service is up to 50mbps and "Fibre 2" up to 73mbps. Perhaps someone could explain what the difference is?

Then I look at other providers, eg John Lewis, EE, Plusnet, SSE etc and all their services are quoted at up to 67mbps and I'm assuming they are all using BT's FTTC connections.

Could someone explain the differences?

Regards
 
Openreach sell several different FTTC (VDSL) tiers to ISPs at wholesale, primarily a 40Mbps (2-10Mbps upload), 55 (10 upload) and 80 (20 upload) plan. So ISPs often build their packages around two or three of those.

On top of that the ASA requires that ISPs only promote advertised average speeds (median) as measured at peak time, which makes them look a bit slower than the headline achievable rate.

The best thing to do in order to understand what FTTC can do for your specific line is run your new address through the BT Wholesale checker:


I tend to look at the 'Impacted' line results as being more reflective of reality.
 
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