Vodafone’s back end is probably the worst out of all U.K. FTTC ISPs at the moment. Mostly just to congestion.
Lots of complaints about it online.
So by Samkmows my local exchange has no LLU hardware:
Telecom:
Not available
Entanet:
Not available
Fluency:
Not available
KC (Kingston):
Not available
Timico Partners:
Not available
Node4:
Not available
Orbital:
Not available
Origin Broadband:
Not available
Redcentric:
Not available
Rutland Telecom:
Not available
Sky:
Enabled
Spectrum:
Not available
TalkTalk (CPW):
Enabled
Vodafone:
Not available
WB Internet:
Not available
Zen Internet:
Not available
It just seems less reactive. For example watching tv in a 720p tv this morning I noticed the quality was grainy ok for about a minute. Never had that with talk talk. Always HD. using my own vdsl router with same mesh setup.
ping is at 12ms but where as talk talk was 7 but assume my profile on my line is reset when you switch to a different provider. SNR ratio has jumped back up to default 6db so lost about 12mb on the down and 3mb on the up.
On stats everything looks be try similar but everything seems less snappy. Another think was downloading off usenet and my phone wouldn’t load at all even though I was obv saturating the connection. With talk talk I would download at 6.2mb but phone would still be snappy at loading basic stuff.
have def noticed a different in the quality of the line and I’m worried about the whole LLU think which I’m assume I would be on a BT wholesale contended pipe from the exchange.