Broadband speed recorded at home, January 31st, 2015
BT Openreach is still predicting that the fibre optic broadband revolution will start in March. Is it a coincidence, though, that with 17 days to go to the beginning of that month, copper-wire broadband speeds have suddenly plummeted? Till yesterday, the highest speed I could attain was 16.06 Mbps and the average speed over a three-month period from November 2014 was 14.09 Mbps. Today, it's been consistently poor. One reading actually measured 0 Mbps. I haven't gotten above 8 Mbps but it's usually at 4 Mbps or below, a quarter of the average.
Some of the speeds recorded today—inlcuding that at 0 Mbps
I smell conspiracy. Is this a way of forcing us to shell out for fibre broadband? The reason I say this is that one of my readings, just one, came in at a massive rogue 69.44 Mbps. Why the inconsistency if this isn't something to do with the roll-out?
Today's rogue reading
Meanwhile, the digging and planting continues. It even includes a new control box & wiring cabinet within the telephone exchange, by the boundary fence behind the lamp column on Park Road...
... where once there was none.
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