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Re: [LUG] Broadband - recent changes Exeter

 

On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 21:01 +0100, James Kilty wrote:
> On 21/10/11 19:01, Simon Waters wrote:
> > Noted that:
> >
> > Exeter has FTTC in some areas.
> >
> > Sowton offers C&W LLU. Sowton previously wasn't upgraded despite the
> > huge number of business customers because the uptake wasn't huge - I
> > presume that someone else has cables (Virgin?) around the industrial
> > estate - so Sowton customers with BT are still on 8Mbps maximum. After
> > some searching, and reading about corporate takeovers and failed deals,
> > it seems basically this means Demon Internet and a few other reseller
> > will sell you ADSL 2+ for the exchange.
> 
> Interesting. We have FTTC the nearest of which is in Townshend, less 
> than a mile away. Plusnet say they could give me 6Mbps - I get 3Mbps at 
> a good time with ADSL - well my router sometimes says this - I mostly 
> get a steady 2Mbps download. The exchange (Leedstown) is not set up for 
> ADSL2+ and if it was, I might get more than the FTTC would. So Demon 
> cannot upgrade me as they don't do it from fibre. The exchange was one 
> of the first in Cornwall with few users. I wonder if any have signed up 
> to the faster rates, especially in the village of Leedstown, which is 
> fairly compact and must have less than 100 houses.
> 
> I could do with a faster line as wife and daughter stream TV and films. 
> They can't do it at the same time.
Have you mtr installed? I think it runs in a GUI or command line?
it gives you an idea where the lossy routers are 
if you can run it in cron say every hour and point the output to a file
you can see what times are bad for you and where the errors are.
examples are here
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/finding-out-a-bad-or-simply-overloaded-network-link-with-linuxunix-oses.html
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