Are Broadband providers just playing it safe?

LeesArt

I nearly signed up for the Vodafone £205 deal but was put off by a number of things, one of which was a low guaranteed speed of 27mb whether I chose 36mb or 65mb

So after reading other posts on this forum I saw a referral to BT checker and got the listing below.  If I am reading this right I should be able to get 65mb or even 1000mb if I am prepared to pay for the right product.

So my questions are, am I reading this right or are they playing it safe by quoting a low guaranteed rate.



Note:  I had to do the address check because I do not have reference numbers or a Landline.

onomatopoeia99

1000 is FTTP on demand where you pay for the fibre to be built out to your property and will cost thousands in installation fees, so you can discount that.

The "downstream handback threshold" should be the guaranteed throughout.  The text appears to small to read on my screen so I can't see what that is. 

Neil_Jones

@onomatopoeia99 Downstream Handback Threshold on the OP's original image is 40 (VDSL Range A (Clean)) and 32.4 (VDSL range B (Impacted)).

shiraz99

onomatopoeia99 said:

1000 is FTTP on demand where you pay for the fibre to be built out to your property and will cost thousands in installation fees, so you can discount that.

The "downstream handback threshold" should be the guaranteed throughout.  The text appears to small to read on my screen so I can't see what that is. 

A quick tip. If you want to see the true size of an embedded image, right click and choose "open image in new tab". You'll then get the original image file that was loaded.

LeesArt

Neil_Jones said:

@onomatopoeia99 Downstream Handback Threshold on the OP's original image is 40 (VDSL Range A (Clean)) and 32.4 (VDSL range B (Impacted)).

Translation please?

shiraz99

In answer to your question, yes Vodafone are pretty much playing it safe. Try other providers to see what their guaranteed speed is. With those results you'll be looking at a connection speed of 60Mbps+ so I'd go for the 65Mb products.

LeesArt

Is that better?

shiraz99

LeesArt said:

Neil_Jones said:

@onomatopoeia99 Downstream Handback Threshold on the OP's original image is 40 (VDSL Range A (Clean)) and 32.4 (VDSL range B (Impacted)).

Translation please?

The Downstream Handback Threshold figure on your link is what most ISPs should use as the guaranteed download speed as this is the figure Openreach would consider to be the minimum they'd expect before looking for a fault.