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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 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > Regards > > Kevin Lucas > Minions Post Master(Sub) > sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx > www.minionsbandb.co.uk > www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk > FaceBook Minions_shop > Po House, Minions, > Liskeard Cornwall > PL14 5LE > 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq