Hi 

Our weekend bach/farm is 5.5km from the Whenuakite exchange, we currently get about 1Mbps down on ADSL.  We are connected to the Whenuakite exchange which is in a 'hut' and the copper cables essentially follow the road so the distance will not be out by more than a few hundred meters.

The Chorus Broadband Checker estimates our ADSL speed at 1Mbps and the VDSL speed at 2 Mbps.

I was on the phone to Spark about my motherinlaws house (a Spark account) and asked them about VDSL at the farm.  Within 30 seconds Spark said the Chorus data indicated about 8 Mbps down on VDSL.

We are with Vodafone at the farm and so I called them, I ended up spending 62 minutes with them being transfered to 4 people and they are certain w cannot get VDSL at the farm.

Any advice as to who is correct.  If 8 Mbps  is possible that would be an amazing upgrade in speed. Unfortunately we are in a black spot for wireless, we actually have a SureSignal on the line to enable texts and calls.

The only technology that I can identify that would get more than 1 Mbps at this distance is VDSL2 with Long Reach 2.  Does anyone know if  LR2-VDSL2 is enabled at that exchange? 

There is a figure on https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/08/bt-reveal-tech-details-expanded-long-reach-vdsl-broadband-trial.html that shows LR2 at about 2 Mbps on 0.5mm copper at 6km so 2 Mbps may be possible but 8 Mbps seems surprising.

Element: WEN-DSLAM-03
Vectoring Timeframe: 2018-05-21 23:00:00
Exchange: Whenuakite
Location: Thames-Coromandel District

Thanks