My exchange (along with all the others?) was upgraded to 8 Mbit at the end 
of March.  The BT ADSL web site said that I should be able to get at least 
4.5 Mbit so I decided to take advantage of the free upgrade my ISP is 
offering from my current 2 Mbit to 8 Mbit.

Well it's now been activated and my router shows 8 Meg down and 400 K up. 
But guess what, no increase in actual speed at all.  Downloads still average 
about 220 K/sec (as they did before) and every internet speed check I have 
run, says that I still have a satisfactory 2 Mbit connection.

I am not particularly annoyed as it hasn't cost me anything, but I am a bit 
disappointed.  I shall raise this with my ISP's support line shortly, but I 
wanted to check whether anyone else has experienced a similar non-event when 
'upgrading' to 8 Mbit.

Cheers,