Re: [LUG] OT: Fibre to the cabinet

["Andrew Pearce" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Rob Beard" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: Fibre to the cabinet


> On 23/02/11 18:55, Andrew Pearce wrote:
> > Update on my FTTC connection well so far, both good and bad.
> >
> > The extra speed is nice when it works... more on that in a moment.
> > The downside to FTTC is that if you are on one of the smaller FTTC
> > cabinets there is a major issue with speed. The speed I get from bt's
> > speedtest website (the only on one you can use for BT to realise theres
> > a fault) vary from under 1 meg up to 37.8. Having reported this to
> > entanet several times, I kept getting no fault found from BT.
> > Luckily on monday night, I got a very very slow speed test, promptly
> > reported to entanet, escalated to BT. Finally I have a phone call from
> > BT saying there is a configuration issue on all of the mini cabinets
> > they have deployed around several parts of cornwall and northern ireland.
> > This dslam update is being beta tested on a few dslams in northern
> > ireland also on the greenbottom dslam (cabinet about 1.5 miles from
> > here).
> >
> > If anyone on the list is looking at getting FTTC, it may be worth
> > waiting for BT to fix these speed issues.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Interesting, not too bad when it's working okay.  I've personally just 
> upgraded my Virgin Broadband from 20 Meg to 50 Meg, speed wise it's got 
> great download speeds (generally around 45 Meg) but poor upload speeds at 
> 0.5 Meg when it should be 1.75 Meg.  I've got one of the Virgin 'Super 
> Hubs' which appears to be the issue (I won't get started on port 
> forwarding being broken).
>
> I'm watching SamKnows.com to see what is happening on my local exchange, 
> sadly it's a small exchange so I think it'll be a while before there are 
> any viable and reasonable cost alternatives to Virgin (best we can get 
> from BT is about 7 Meg, or up to 20 Meg if we go to Talktalk).
>
> Rob

I wish my speed patterns were predictable,   when its working i have got 37
to 38 megs down, but if it decides to play up the connection can be like 
having
dual isdn.  The upspeed is normally fine,  normally between 8 and 10 megs
ups.

Did a speed test just before i typed this sentence,  entanet's bristol
interconnect to when i'm connected is currently at 66%.

According to bt's site my profile is currently 35915 Kbps, down slightly on 
what
its been recently.  Download speed for this test is 2789 Kbps. Upload speed
max achievable speed is 10000 Kbps, currently got 331 Kbps.
I've only noticed the upload problem over the last  few days was ok for the
first 2 weeks.

I hope this software upgrade BT are testing fixes it.

Andrew 


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