BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Ol!ver · 6 Jul 2016 at 15:44

Sounds like I need to be looking at a new modem. Thanks all.

KIA · 6 Jul 2016 at 16:51

Ol!ver said:
Sounds like I need to be looking at a new modem. Thanks all.

Why?

Ol!ver · 6 Jul 2016 at 16:56

KIA said:
Why?

Because I can't think what else to replace

The story's a bit more complicated than the issue I described earlier.

After doing more testing it looks like the Asus is causing issues with certain traffic. Internet traffic going via a Homeplug or a WiFi access point is considerably slower than plugged directly into it. I know WiFi and the homeplug are capable of the throughput because they shift a lot more than 80Mbps when transferring files to/from the NAS.

Only thing I've not changed is the modem/router.

meandu229 · 6 Jul 2016 at 17:05

Dooksy said:
No worries, thought it would be a script error. What OS? Surely easier to just use ksh or bash?

Its part of a python "suite" that does all sorts in my network and I use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/speedtest-cli/ so python was quite easy to just make dump out to a db file. And its on debian.

McGraw · 6 Jul 2016 at 17:33

My infinity contract is up for renewal as of today. They are saying I have to pay 20 a month now instead of the 10 I was doing.

Any recommendations on who to move to or how to get a better deal?

Edit rang retentions and sorted it
Thanks a lot.

Unseen · 6 Jul 2016 at 21:04

Unseen said:
Screenshot above is using the BT Telephone Checker.

Do these stats look reasonable? My BT line has been active since May 31st. PPP LCP Send Termination Request [User request] being the main cause for most of the restarts. Dropped from 74 to 63 in down rate and from 20 to 18.5 in upload rate. Also seen increases to the latency from 16ms to 24ms in speedtests and in ping tests to websites such as bbc.co.uk, google.co.uk increases to 18-20ms from 9-10ms.

I think switching the lease time to 21 days from the default 1 may have stabilised the connection. Before that these user requests kept dropping my speeds little by little. Last uptime was 15 days before user request reset with no improvements made to the line in that time.

Any chance these speeds will rise again? Other than the download speed diminishing I'm pleased with the switch from the overutilized BS from Virgin to BT. Would like even more speed ideally, but not a great deal of choices.

Could someone with some know how reply to this?

To the message about cherry picking my speed always seems to be close to the reset speed. The latest HUB reset said 61.8MB or something and the broadband speed tests are always 59. something MB or 59 on Fast.com. These resets are not done by me as in the original post. Then when the HUB resets I'm hoping the speed does a slight increase again... Sick of it dropping.

the-evaluator · 7 Jul 2016 at 09:05

We had a powercut last night that lasted about 20 minutes. Much to my surprise my VDSL sync rate has gone up from 67380/19999 to 79999/19999.

ChrisD. · 7 Jul 2016 at 09:06

the-evaluator said:
We had a powercut last night that lasted about 20 minutes. Much to my surprise my VDSL sync rate has gone up from 67380/19999 to 79999/19999.

Maybe it affected the cabinet as well, effectively giving everyone a DLM reset. Not sure if they have backup power?

the-evaluator · 7 Jul 2016 at 09:22

Good point, I hadn't thought about that. It was a fairly big powercut, something in the region of 7000 properties affected so it was my entire town and a few others.

ChrisD. · 7 Jul 2016 at 09:28

IME the sync rate takes a very long time to get back up if it's been dropped. Far too long, the speed it can drop is high with a few power cuts, but then months and months go by with very little rise. Mine dropped 5mbit or so, hardly trivial but max I was getting dropped from 44 to 39. Zen weren't interested, so 6 weeks later when I'd gained all of 0.5 mbit I text my mate who's an Openreach engineer who did a DLM reset for me, straight back to the original speed and a few mb over actually.

the-evaluator · 7 Jul 2016 at 09:55

This is what my sync rate has done over the last year.

ChrisD. · 7 Jul 2016 at 10:42

This is from my Zen account and is apparently the line data. You can see the drop, and where I had the DLM reset in May.

Upstream Downstream Sync Rate BRAS Profile Interleave Sync Date Date
20000 45633 47144 TR101 Auto 07-May-2016 10:15 07-May-2016 10:15
20000 40390 41728 TR101 Auto 05-May-2016 13:21 05-May-2016 13:21
20000 41083 42444 TR101 Auto 24-Mar-2016 11:19 24-Mar-2016 11:19
20000 40499 41840 TR101 Auto 23-Mar-2016 14:54 23-Mar-2016 14:54
20000 45412 46916 TR101 Auto 19-Jan-2016 17:57 19-Jan-2016 17:57
20000 45884 47404 TR101 Auto 08-Jan-2016 10:33 08-Jan-2016 10:33

pcfarrar · 7 Jul 2016 at 11:14

Dooksy said:
Maybe it affected the cabinet as well, effectively giving everyone a DLM reset. Not sure if they have backup power?

The cabs have backup batteries.

trisp · 7 Jul 2016 at 12:18

Well i dont know about other's but i am pretty surprised how slowly internet speed's are increasing, i personally have had infinity 2 for getting on 5 years now and my speeds were 80/20 but last couple years they have been 65-70/20.

Just seems that prices have stayed the same but there has been no increases nor have i heard of any coming.

Balb0wa · 7 Jul 2016 at 12:41

trisp said:
Well i dont know about other's but i am pretty surprised how slowly internet speed's are increasing, i personally have had infinity 2 for getting on 5 years now and my speeds were 80/20 but last couple years they have been 65-70/20.

Just seems that prices have stayed the same but there has been no increases nor have i heard of any coming.

GFAST not far off

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...s-g-fast-broadband-cabinet-extension-pod.html

Jez · 7 Jul 2016 at 13:16

Balb0wa said:
GFAST not far off

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...s-g-fast-broadband-cabinet-extension-pod.html

I can imagine the roll-out for this will be quite slow..I cant see the take-up over existing FTTC being particularly high, given the comparative lack of people even ordering 80/20 products?

ChrisD. · 7 Jul 2016 at 14:39

I wish some ISP's would allow a bandwidth boost option, IE, you have 40/10 for day to day, then you can boost to 80/20 for £x or something like that for downloads.

KIA · 7 Jul 2016 at 16:39

Balb0wa said:
GFAST not far off

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...s-g-fast-broadband-cabinet-extension-pod.html

Great for those close to the cab.

Meatball · 7 Jul 2016 at 21:50

KIA said:
Great for those close to the cab.

Exactly. Sadly for people like my parents who are over 1km from their cab, I can see them being stuck with 30Mbit FTTC for a long time!!

MonsterMoshi · 10 Jul 2016 at 04:05

Just received a quote back from BT for the installation of the infrastructure for FTTP to my parents small rural hamlet
We are looking at £30K for the installation of the fibre to the area plus the installation costs to connect the premises we could run anything from £300 to £1500 per house depending on where they locate the distribution point
Getting FTTP would be great but we now have to convince the neighbours to shell out close to £3K each to fund broadband infrastructure which will always be owned by BT...
We currently suffer with 1Mbs on a good day so an improvement is long due but it is a significant about of money for anybody to shell out
I'm thinking a good way to convince some neighbours is house prices. Surely having ultrast internet would have a significant impact on property values greater that the £3K it would cost? Houses currently average at £500K in the area