BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
- Thread starter michellez
- Start date
Soldato
If you can try using an ethernet cable and perform the test again.
Lol. Yeah I think it could be the network card in this Laptop as it's horrendous, I didn't even think to be honest. Plugged it in via ethernet, download speed went to about 20~ then blasted up over 100 and finished and gave an average of mid 34mb. Upload was the same. Thanks very much, I guess I'll probably get the new PC wired up 
Should always use a wired (direct ethernet not powerline) connection for speed testing 
Powerline connections are generally good (better than wireless) however as connections get faster they are more likely to become the bottleneck, I have a crappy ADSL connection so makes no difference but if I had a proper connection (cable, FTTC) I'd go back to proper ethernet.
Also worth noting that powerline does add a few ms of latency, around 4ms for me, YMMV.
Powerline connections are generally good (better than wireless) however as connections get faster they are more likely to become the bottleneck, I have a crappy ADSL connection so makes no difference but if I had a proper connection (cable, FTTC) I'd go back to proper ethernet.
Also worth noting that powerline does add a few ms of latency, around 4ms for me, YMMV.
I think my bottleneck is this laptop (That's about to be upgraded thank the lords) that I've used for my time at Uni, cost me £230 3 years ago and it's been terrible since day one. It's currently used for browsing, because it won't even run Skype without crashing, if I open more than 3 tabs I'm pushing it's limits. So yeah, it's horrible.
After BT sorting their database issue I was finally able to order Infinity! I'm one of the lucky ones that got FTTP.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2095057100.png
Great result, the speed of ADSL was shocking before considering I'm in a built up area.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2095057100.png
Great result, the speed of ADSL was shocking before considering I'm in a built up area.
Very hard, I've been emailing a mod back and too for over a month trying to get mine reset (lying to me, making up line stats for my line when I can clearly see them myself).
It is possible they just won't do it.
Last edited:
Soldato
Not easy at all unfortunately.
Private torrent sites.
Soldato
How's that help P2P throttling which is what snave was asking about?
Soldato
Very hard, I've been emailing a mod back and too for over a month trying to get mine reset (lying to me, making up line stats for my line when I can clearly see them myself).
It is possible they just won't do it.
SNAP!
Same here emails flying back & forth to a mod, got nowhere, I written to Ian Livingston CEO, BT this morning.
I had the engineer reset my profile some time ago, took him ages to get the them to do it at the exchange.
Last edited:
I do use private torrent sites but the speed is still massively throttled, if you've found some sites that some how bypass this please share the info!
Utorrent is setup to force encryption but prior to 12am my speeds are absolutely awful, that's on a 72mg connection too.
Very hard, I've been emailing a mod back and too for over a month trying to get mine reset (lying to me, making up line stats for my line when I can clearly see them myself).
It is possible they just won't do it.
Well that sucks. I might get on their message boards then and say I'm not getting near the estimated speeds. Did I read that if you get 10Mb lower than your estimated that it means they are not giving you the service you paid for? Or does it only have to be higher than 10Mb? Only I was estimated 44Mb and I get 30Mb.
Do you have encryption set to forced and legacy connections disabled?
Soldato
I'm a firm believer that all these settings make no difference whatsoever and it's simply hit and miss whether or not you find P2P throttled during the day.
Purely as test I've installed uTorrent and left the settings at default. Some days I'm not throttled and others I am throttled. Others have had similar results.