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n30_mkii · 20 Oct 2006 at 18:23

I have been in my training peroid for 7 days now, and have noticed no increase in download rates, still stuck at 120kb/s download rate...

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test:
IP profile for your line is - 1000 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 7296 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 928 kbps

Should my IP profile have updated by now? My router has been constantly syncing between high 6800 and 7600 but the BRAS profile has not changed...

Any thoughts?

hybrid · 20 Oct 2006 at 18:34

For the first 10 days you are capped to a 1MBit BRA profile. Until the training period is over then the profile changes.

n30_mkii · 20 Oct 2006 at 19:00

Thanks, I had read elsewhere that people had seen the change within the first 3 days... Got me a little worried..

tolien · 20 Oct 2006 at 19:06

hybrid said:
For the first 10 days you are capped to a 1MBit BRA profile. Until the training period is over then the profile changes.

Incorrect.

If it hasn't changed in 7 days and you've been consistently synching at a level that would get you a higher profile you've got a fault. Though your ISP might hide behind the 10 days.

n30_mkii · 20 Oct 2006 at 20:13

Thanks Tolien, thats waht i thought, will give it till the 10 days are up and see what happens....Is there any way to force the BRAS profile to update if it has got stuck? Or is it something the ISP in this case plus.net would do?

tolien · 20 Oct 2006 at 20:54

Disconnecting every now and again (once a day should be plenty) might help, but ultimately you need to get your ISP to kick BTw.

hybrid · 20 Oct 2006 at 21:43

Well i must say its not uncommon for some users to find that they have been profiled at 2Mb speeds for anything up to the full 10 days.

tolien · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:33

hybrid said:
Well i must say its not uncommon for some users to find that they have been profiled at 2Mb speeds for anything up to the full 10 days.

That doesn't stop it being a fault. That some ISPs don't care till the 10 days are up doesn't help.

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:50

n30_mkii said:
Or is it something the ISP in this case plus.net would do?

Have fun

Mine BRAS thankfully changed after day 2 so I was already hitting my top speeds.

3 happy years with them, then along came elecoya (or whatever it is called - don't p2p but I do remote access and ftp a bit) and their new 'let's throttle you (all ports) even when you haven't used up your quota to stop you going over' policy.

hybrid · 21 Oct 2006 at 09:55

Im with PN and tbh the ellacoyas dont really both me. I dont use any n00bish p2p or anything like that.

All of my applications have been rated with gold priority so im happy

$anch3z · 21 Oct 2006 at 11:59

My profile got stuck during the 10 day initial period at 2mb, to remedy this i simply turned my router off overnight and noticed a gradual increase in speed over the next couple of days. Stuck BRAS profiles seem to be common on shorter lines though apparently

smids · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:47

hybrid said:
Im with PN and tbh the ellacoyas dont really both me. I dont use any n00bish p2p or anything like that.

All of my applications have been rated with gold priority so im happy

I use P2P (Bittorrent) for Linux Distros - and downloading a 4GB .iso limited to 100KB/s is not fun.

n30_mkii · 22 Oct 2006 at 14:07

Just an update,

I ran BT's speedtest yesterday 10th day and the IP Profile has changed to 5000Kb/s which is all good, but my download speeds have gone from 120 Kb/s download rate to a meer 130Kb/s download rate, what else could be effecting this? Running the speedtests they seem to suggest i am hovering slightly above the 1MB line download speed...

This is a little annoying but at least my profile has updated!! after 10days!!!!!

Any ideas? or a link to a known high speed download? Could be plus.net throttleing me or soemthing?

Ol!ver · 22 Oct 2006 at 16:05

n30_mkii said:
Just an update,

I ran BT's speedtest yesterday 10th day and the IP Profile has changed to 5000Kb/s which is all good, but my download speeds have gone from 120 Kb/s download rate to a meer 130Kb/s download rate, what else could be effecting this? Running the speedtests they seem to suggest i am hovering slightly above the 1MB line download speed...

This is a little annoying but at least my profile has updated!! after 10days!!!!!

Any ideas? or a link to a known high speed download? Could be plus.net throttleing me or soemthing?

If you're using a router give it a reboot, seems to sort mine out when the speeds don't match the profile.

hybrid · 22 Oct 2006 at 16:18

n30_mkii said:
This is a little annoying but at least my profile has updated!! after 10days!!!!!

Any ideas? or a link to a known high speed download? Could be plus.net throttleing me or soemthing?

Yup as i said, its not uncommon to take the full 10 days.

and as for the download speeds, yes that would be PN and their famous ellacoya configs kicking in. Nothing you can do about that - but to move ISP

as for a fast download like - this is an http download.
http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test

and as for a torrent download - just try downloading a massively seeded .iso from mirror.ac.uk or something.

n30_mkii · 22 Oct 2006 at 16:32

Just tested it, cant seem to get more than 130Kb/s 10 more that I used to! Woot!
Will give it until tomorrow and then speak to plus.net and see whats happening....Getting good syncing no drops or very few...And my BRAS profile has updated...but download speed still seems capped somewhere!

Just run BT Speedtest and here are the most uptodate results:

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test:
IP profile for your line is - 6500 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 7488 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 958 kbps

Anything seem wrong at all, seems my bras profile has gone from 5000 last night to 6500 now, I exceeded my peak time allowance by a couple of hundred megs a couple of days ago, so the restictions my be causing this?

tolien · 22 Oct 2006 at 17:23

Try the BT Speedtest in the FAQ - it'll at least bypass Plusnet.

n30_mkii · 22 Oct 2006 at 17:46

Just done that still the same speed just above a 1mb service....

hybrid · 22 Oct 2006 at 19:08

Raise a ticket with PN - you might have to wait a while though.

They will ask you to perform speed tests outside of peak hours.

After that then they will action what is needed to be done.

n30_mkii · 23 Oct 2006 at 19:08

Another Update:

Finally my BRAS profile changed to 5500KB/s and during non peak speedtests etc are fine as is my connection (stable).
This morning
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test:
IP profile for your line is - 5500 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 7424 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 4794 kbps

Everything is fine during the daytime but at night I have a poor download speed and my connection keeps dropping. And doesnt seem to stabalise. I have noticed people mentioning daytime sync rates and evening rates, granted my evening rate is a little slower around the 7000 rate rather than high 7000's. but my concern is why does my line keep dropping!! Its really annoying, latency /ping times are still ok though...Any thoughts? Should my router / exchange start autmatically syncing at a lot lower rate at night to compensate?(This i would not mind)>?