67Mb is the average speed BT is required to show for F2 , not because that’s the limit, but because if you average all of its F2 customers, that’s the speed the average customer would get , someone close to a FTTC ‘cabinet’ , like myself will get 80Mb from F2 (not 67Mb), some much further away 57Mb , on average it ‘delivers’ 67Mb , a pointless average in my opinion, what does it matter to any individual…that’s why a bespoke accurate speed estimate is provided when an order made .
There is no rate adaption due to line length with FTTP , every F2 customer on FTTP gets 80Mb , every F1 will get 55Mb , every Fibre Essential will get 40Mb .
If the OP is on Home Essentials 2 (67Mb) but only gets 55Mb , then the rate adaption ( speed reduction ) for their line length is either coincidentally 55Mb , or they were set up incorrectly on F1 , which isn’t even social tariff profile, an incorrect setup seems more likely given the upload is 10Mb , which is the upload on Fibre Essential and F1 , F2 upload is 20 Mb where line length allows.
The lower social tariff profile isn’t 55Mb (sold to ordinary customers as F1 ) but 40Mb which is sold to ordinary customers as Fibre Essential, it has always seemed daft to me that BT would call all the variations on the social tariff Home Essentials, and the single base profile for regular consumers as Fibre Essential .
FTTC has 3 profiles, 40Mb , 55Mb and 80Mb ,the lower and upper are the social tariff ones , but all FTTC is advertised much below what a customer on a short line would get , all part of the outlawing of the ‘upto’ adverts from yesteryear.
F2 is upto 80Mb , F1 is upto 55Mb , and Fibre Essential is upto 40 Mb if the old way of advertising speed was allowed.
