Irratic speed and connection on FTTP - Anyone know a reason

[#1]

Hi
Have been on FTTP trial on Bradwell Abbey. Broadly speaking service is very good but every so often the speed seems to drop from around 80 to 60 ish for a few weeks and then picks up again for a while. More worrying is that fact occasionally the connection drops - by that I do not mean the line drops and IP address changes just that no data seems to be being transmitted - everything seems to stop. I have even seen it when I have been doing a speedtest - the needle stops moving for a few seconds and the graph plot drops to zero and then suddenly it starts again. seems very peculiar.
Any ideas anyone?

[#2]

Hi
I've been on the FTTP trial on Bradwell Abbey for 2 years and have never experienced anything like that, so I'm afraid I can't help with the line dropping problem.
In terms of speed, 2 years ago I was getting 90+Mbps download speeds but these days I'm lucky if I get 80Mbps, seems to be averaging out at about 75Mbps. Still, it's miles better than the 2.4Mbps that I had on ADSL! 
Upload speeds have been consistent at 15Mbps.
Cheers

[#3]

Thanks for your response Howard. I have only been on FTTP for a year. I also had 90 once, the rest o the time had been the lower 80s, apart from the issue that I mentioned. The upload as mentioned by yourself is absolutely consistent at 15. I agree that what we have now is infinitely better that the ADSL  :)that we had.
Cheers
 

[#4]

I'd be interested for people in MK on Bradwell Abbey on FTTP (with different ISPs) to compare their speed test results. I heard some BT Infinity people were getting mid-90s on the 100/15 product before it was upgraded.

[#5]

OK, I just asked a mate who has FTTP from Bradwell Abbey with BT for free to run a Speedtest and he got 104.33Mbps down and 13.33Mbps up!
He gets it for free because he is trialling telephone over fibre for BT.