New plusnet line modem recommendation

rob77

rob77

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Hi guys

I've just transferred from vodafone to plusnet fibre and I thought that I was connected to a huawei cabinet. After testing it with an unlocked hg612 and looking at line stats it comes back as an eci cabinet. I have switched the modem back to an old eci I have had since 2013 or so as I thought this would be a better match. I kinda miss having the stats shown so was wondering what others on an eci cabinet use? I see the draytek gets good reviews but would it be a good match for my cab?

Also when I first got fibre years ago when it first became available I was getting the full 80Mb down. Over time it's just dropped and dropped and now sits at 53Mb. It's stable and the pings are great just wondered why the drop. Changing providers over the years has made no effect. I don't think I have a noisy line either but would need to test.

Cheers
 
I swapped over to plusnet last month from voda.
I had there router on for 5 mins and it synced at the same as my voda unit, 41 ish Mb's but delivered in speedtest around 38.
Introduced the plusnet router to the bin and dropped in a vigor 130 in pppoe mode attached to an install of pfsense running on a fat HP server i got for a ton off the bay - sync speed was similar but i pulled in 4 or 5Mb/s witht the router now having a set of baws.

Er no idea why yours has dropped but it could be because.. er stuff.
 
Thanks mate

I too run pfsense but on its own hardware. It took my line around 3 days for it to settle and I was getting around 46Mb down, now it's 53Mb with better pings. Do you know what type cab you are connected to?
 
A green one :p no idea tbh.
But i was surprised when i moved my pfsense install from an old HP microserver to the big twin 6core monster server i now have - i didnt think pfsense was being throttled or held back but it seems it really was as i picked up nearly 5Mb/s so its worth checking your VM or what ever you have it running on.
 
Thanks Stephanie

It's a little Celeron pc with 6 x lan ports that pfsense runs on. No throttling as even downloading over openvpn uses only 10% cpu.
 
Crosstalk from other FTTC connections is the likely culprit if the speed has slowly dropped over a long period but the connection is otherwise stable.

If this is an older FTTC install, I'm guessing you have a split master socket and the modem is plugged directly into the data port, so you can probably rule out any internal issues.

Unless you can actually hear noise on the line, which would point to an external fault, pick up whichever modem is currently considered best by the DSL boffins over at Kitz Forum. More modern kit can perform better than the HG612.
 
Thanks TJM

Yes I have the split data port that the bt engineer installed. I've plugged in the HG612 and speed has dropped a tiny bit but nothing much really. I've now got full stats to be able to monitor it and see how it performs over time. Pings are roughly the same.
 
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