line running through trees is that causing my issuses

[loverboi]

@Chrisee  but i feel i should be getting 40mbs as im on a 40/10 i feel that im be taken advantage of 😞

[Chrisee]

@loverboi the laws of physics are against you there as line speed is a function of line length to the cabinet. Once you area has a full fibre connection thst disapears as fibre lines are far less prone to ssues with length but until then it is something you have to live with unless you move.

[loverboi]

@Chriseei fully understand you  😞 and okay and i will look at moving to somewhere where there is fftp already 🙂

[jamesn123]

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@loverboi wrote:

@Chrisee  but i feel i should be getting 40mbs as im on a 40/10 i feel that im be taken advantage of 😞

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Your not. Anyone who is on a 40/10 wouldn't actually get 40mbps on a speedtest, its just not how it works. Same for anyone who is on 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80mbps etc. You will lose about 10% of the speed. This is the same for any ISP. 

[loverboi]

@jamesn123  hi thanks sir i fully understand where your coming from and i will be looking for better places to live but i will look up the address/post code to check if fftp is in that area or not before i do accept a propperty but im not fussed as we are all going to be fftp soon or later 🙂 🙂

[TimmyBGood]

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@loverboi wrote:

im not fussed as we are all going to be fftp soon or later 🙂 🙂

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Not strictly correct: the Openreach target for 80% coverage is the end of 2026.

The remaining 20% of UK addresses are outside the scope of the commercial FTTP rollout because installation cost exceeds all possible future ISP income, so they either need state subsidy (at the whim of future government) or alternative provision: most likely cellular, and in some cases satellite.

The Openreach per-address allowance is £2,800 and realistically that doesn't buy a whole lot of new duct or many poles: just stringing optical fibre along existing overhead copper routes is prohibitively expensive in many places, and also horribly vulnerable to storm damage because, unlike copper, glass really doesn't enjoy being stretched...

[loverboi]

hi @TimmyBGood  i live in a village would i get fftp any sooner or is it better to find somewhere to live where its comming or already here 🙂 🙂

[TimmyBGood]

@loverboi 

Past a certain point deployment is based on diminishing ease of access, so a village is probably preferable to a single isolated property, for example.

Some locations will lag behind the general trend even though there's significant population, when there are issues with getting a backbone cable from elsewhere to supply all the properties.