Upgrade to digital voice and FTTP

[fisherking]

Mine was capped at 55 Mbps on FTTC so suspect it will stay the same if I stay with BT plus I’m still paying £20 a month although I think the free phone calls have stopped.

[fisherking]

It is Home Essentials fibre 2 it originally have free calls included but think that has stopped now.

[fisherking]

Yes I suspect my speed was wrongly capped at F1 speeds even though my account says F2.

[WSH]

I suspect you’ll get the maximum for the package.

I was on Part Fibre (FTTC) for 10 years getting 58Mb/s, even though the package was “up to 80Mb/s”.  Signed up for Full Fibre (FTTP) 150Mb/s, 150Mb/s is what I get.

As I said before, FTTP doesn’t suffer from the vagaries of things like distance that FTTC does.  What you get is what it says on the tin.

[iniltous]

Going back to the original questions then , move to Home Essentials F2 on FTTP it will be faster as you will get 80Mb , if you move to another ISP , then FTTP will be required anyway as once it’s available it’s almost certain that you will need to accept FTTP as a condition of joining the new ISP .
You said early March is when your proposed move to DV and FTTP was scheduled, it’s early March now , so any move to another ISP is unlikely to completed before your change to DV , but you should only need to advise the new ISP , they , if they use OTS (one touch switching) serve notice to BT on your behalf

[fisherking]

I would be happy with 80 Mbps so I’ll let BT do the upgrade and see what the speed is. I can always move to another ISP later if I’m not happy with it.

[fisherking]

The upgrade hasn’t been done yet due to change of date. I’ll stay with BT for now and see what speed I get.  If it’s 80 Mbps I’d be happy with that.

[fisherking]

Oh and I do still get the free phone calls.