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Does anybody know if you still need an engineer to come visit for an upgrade from basic ADSL when you just have one master socket? I've read lots of conflicting information about this. I don't want to go far into the order process on the BT site to check incase they scum me into ordering something.
 
Apologies I saw a BT thread so decided to ask this here.

My Mum already pays for a BT Phoneline but all her grandkids get fed up about having a poor mobile phone reception so we were thinking of asking her if she would allow us to pay the £5/month for 17mb broadband which will make them all happy.

So what likely damage are the 'engineers' going to make?
The main phone line comes into the hall on the skirting board and there is a phone connected to it which is about 4 foot above it.
Will any more work need to be done other than fitting a router which would go on the floor ?
This is not BT Infinity but the old slow one.

Thanks
 
I thought DLM had been disabled because of the litigation with ASSIA. Just had this back from Zen ...

"Zen have been advised by Openreach that there have been changes made to the DLM platform so that there will be no need for the DLM service to be removed, therefore, DLM should still be active and monitoring your broadband connection."

Not entirely convinced, I've initiated 3 reboots in 10 days after a router setting change and I'm getting exactly the same sync speed every time. Its always had some minor variation in sync speeds in the past.
 
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BT coming out on 9-Dec-14 to install 80/20, I'm also having a new line installed so I can choose a better location for the Master Socket (also new line install was free)

Any tips of things I should look out for when it's being installed, will it "go live" while the BT Eng. is installing or will I have to wait for activation?
 
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tribz said:
I thought DLM had been disabled because of the litigation with ASSIA. Just had this back from Zen ...

"Zen have been advised by Openreach that there have been changes made to the DLM platform so that there will be no need for the DLM service to be removed, therefore, DLM should still be active and monitoring your broadband connection."

Not entirely convinced, I've initiated 3 reboots in 10 days after a router setting change and I'm getting exactly the same sync speed every time. Its always had some minor variation in sync speeds in the past.
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Something has changed on DLM for sure, but yes it's still in operation with little downtime for it.

This morning DLM intervened and changed my upstream from interleaved to fastpath - roughly two weeks after it was interleaved I believe). However, here's where the interesting bit comes in:
Code: 
Downstream PTM TPS-TC chennel 0 Capabilities
Min_net_data_rate                       =    128 kbit/s
Max_net_data_rate                       =  49000 kbit/s
Rederved_net_data_rate                  =      0 kbit/s
Max_interleaving_delay                  =      8 ms
INP_min                                 =      3 symbols
Dynamic interleaver reconfig(amd1)      = N
INP no erasure                          = N
Pre-emption                             = N
Short packet                            = N
CIpolicy(amd1)                          = Mandatory

Upstream PTM TPS-TC chennel 0 Capabilities
Min_net_data_rate                       =    128 kbit/s
Max_net_data_rate                       =  20000 kbit/s
Rederved_net_data_rate                  =      0 kbit/s
Max_interleaving_delay                  =      1 ms
INP_min                                 =      0 symbols
Dynamic interleaver reconfig(amd1)      = N
INP no erasure                          = N
Pre-emption                             = N
Short packet                            = N
CIpolicy(amd1)                          = Mandatory

Notice the 'min_net_data_rate', it's not roughly half the 'max_net_data_rate', yet it used to be (could this be part of the DLM changes relating to ASSIA patents court case?). Per SIN498, it says the minimum rate will be approximately half the maximum rate, this however no longer appears to be the case.

Here's an old sample for comparison:
Code: 
Downstream PTM TPS-TC chennel 0 Capabilities
Min_net_data_rate                       =  25000 kbit/s
Max_net_data_rate                       =  49000 kbit/s
Rederved_net_data_rate                  =      0 kbit/s
Max_interleaving_delay                  =      8 ms
INP_min                                 =      3 symbols
Dynamic interleaver reconfig(amd1)      = N
INP no erasure                          = N
Pre-emption                             = N
Short packet                            = N
CIpolicy(amd1)                          = Mandatory

Upstream PTM TPS-TC chennel 0 Capabilities
Min_net_data_rate                       =  10000 kbit/s
Max_net_data_rate                       =  20000 kbit/s
Rederved_net_data_rate                  =      0 kbit/s
Max_interleaving_delay                  =      8 ms
INP_min                                 =      4 symbols
Dynamic interleaver reconfig(amd1)      = N
INP no erasure                          = N
Pre-emption                             = N
Short packet                            = N
CIpolicy(amd1)                          = Mandatory
 
What does a big green box directly behind my cab mean? Its literally just appeared out of nowhere, like a wild pokemon in tall grass, poop the first time I saw one.
 
Uncle_Gravy said:
What does a big green box directly behind my cab mean? Its literally just appeared out of nowhere, like a wild pokemon in tall grass, poop the first time I saw one.
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That happened where I live. 10 months on and the lack of Openreach vans knocking about is disturbing. The bt fibre checker said September which has come and gone. The new "beta" fibre checker website just tells me my area is enabled but I can't get it yet so keep checking back frequently:(
 
grrr - have BT somehow set me to Infinity 1 ? I've been on Infinity 2 for about 8 months - download is normally about 43-46mb- but now seems fixed at a suspiciously even numbered 35 ??

noise margins have always both been around 6.1-6.3

now suddenly the 2nd one is a lot higher and the speed has dropped - showing me it still has room to go faster - so why fixed at 35 ?

any ideas please ?

. Product name: BT Home Hub
2. Serial number: +068343+NQ41060163
3. Firmware version: Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.173.1.6 (Type A) Last updated 10/05/14
4. Board version: BT Hub 5A
5. VDSL uptime: 0 days, 00:00:47
6. Data rate: 12627 / 35000
7. Maximum data rate: 12627 / 53041
8. Noise margin: 6.1 / 8.5
9. Line attenuation: 0.0 / 20.8
10. Signal attenuation: 0.0 / 20.2
 
This happened to me the other day also. I think it's whatever version of DLM BT are using now just settling in. It should sort it self out as my speed has started to rise again.
 
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