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Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:


Tim Streater wrote:

Might be fibre to the cabinet (FTTC). That's what we have, gives
35Mbps or so.


53.7 here. And rather old overhead telephone cable with telegraph
poles to the cabinet - quite rare in London.


79.5Mbs here, underground wired, If I crane my neck out of the window I
can see the cabinet.


I think BT recently offered me an 'upgrade' to a higher speed. For more
money, of course. But the last one I had which doubled the download speed
made zero difference (that I could see) in practice. Most things seem to
have 'the other end' as the bottleneck.

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