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I've been on unlimited fibre for about 3 months now and generally it's great. My speeds are always constant and not had any drop-outs but web browsing is terrible at times. I've tried Open DNS, Google DNS as well as PN own DNS but it's still the same. It takes 10-15 seconds sometimes to open a page and it's really annoying. I've done speed tests and these are ok as well as connecting straight to the BT modem with the same slowness. I'm connected by cat 5e cable as well and only use wireless for my tablet. My router is a WD MyNet N750 with the latest firmware.

Can anyone give me any pointers?
 
zom247 said:
I've been on unlimited fibre for about 3 months now and generally it's great. My speeds are always constant and not had any drop-outs but web browsing is terrible at times. I've tried Open DNS, Google DNS as well as PN own DNS but it's still the same. It takes 10-15 seconds sometimes to open a page and it's really annoying. I've done speed tests and these are ok as well as connecting straight to the BT modem with the same slowness. I'm connected by cat 5e cable as well and only use wireless for my tablet. My router is a WD MyNet N750 with the latest firmware.

Can anyone give me any pointers?
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Cant say ive noticed any slowdowns on my plusnet fibre and ive been with them for a few mths now. Could be congestion if there is such a thing on fibre??. Mind you im using the Asus N66U router myself.

Perhaps give plusnet a call, they are very good at helping with issues.
 
zom247 said:
I've been on unlimited fibre for about 3 months now and generally it's great. My speeds are always constant and not had any drop-outs but web browsing is terrible at times. I've tried Open DNS, Google DNS as well as PN own DNS but it's still the same. It takes 10-15 seconds sometimes to open a page and it's really annoying. I've done speed tests and these are ok as well as connecting straight to the BT modem with the same slowness. I'm connected by cat 5e cable as well and only use wireless for my tablet. My router is a WD MyNet N750 with the latest firmware.

Can anyone give me any pointers?
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Give the PN router a shot.
 
Quick question, I'm with Sky I have Adsl I am going to move to Plusnet fibre, looking on the PlusNet order page it asks for a mak key will Sky provide me with a mac key as I am on a LLU line

Thanks
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quish said:
Quick question, I'm with Sky I have Adsl I am going to move to Plusnet fibre, looking on the PlusNet order page it asks for a mak key will Sky provide me with a mac key as I am on a LLU line

Thanks
Q
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Yes, you need to ring up sky and say you want you MAC so you can move elsewhere. They will usually put in an artificial delay under the guise of a cancelation notice period before they email it to you.
 
bulldog147 said:
my cabinet number 8 is only round the corner of my house. Not far only 1 minute walk away from it. Should be getting full maximum speed 80/20 ;) BT estimate 80/20 Available Dec 2013

On my ADSL2+ I getting 15.8Meg.
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On adsl2+ I used to get 15-16 meg, I get 73meg on fiber now, which isn't quite full speed but i doubt I'd be able to tell the difference in reality, it's blisteringly fast assuming the host you downloading from is capable of feeding you fast enough.
 
PiKe said:
So does plusnet just send the router out and the engineer brings the modem? Is the extension kit just a run of cat5?
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Yeh it's basically the same as adsl2, the BT modem sits between the router and the master phone socket.

The open reach engineer also replaces the face plate on the master phone socket with a new one that has cat5 socket and a normal phone cable socket which eliminates the need for separate filters like you have with adsl.

So it's cat5 all the Way to the master socket.
 
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They did our whole area with fibre recently, our village is posh at one end and council house at the other - they did the whole council house end and even special installation for a plot of land that is due to have more council houses built on, and then skipped the posh end out completely. Their excuse for this is that we are Exchange Only lines however it says we are on cabinet 4 on the wholesale checker, which is the same cabinet as the other end of the village. The real reason for ommision? 8 feet of telegraph wire to connect our lines to the main trunk instead of the current line which goes round the village 4 times, hence being too bad quality to handle anything above 3mbit.

I don't understand how an area which houses the highest tax payers in a fiscal area is the only area to not recieve a service paid for by the UK tax payer, when the areas full of population who pay no tax at all and leech off those that do get 80mbit for free.

Oh and be careful if on BT, your supplied router will allow people to leech your broadband if they pay BT by the minute. It is supposed to be opt-in but acts as a community hub as standard.
 
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twoblacklines said:
They did our whole area with fibre recently, our village is posh at one end and council house at the other - they did the whole council house end and even special installation for a plot of land that is due to have more council houses built on, and then skipped the posh end out completely. Their excuse for this is that we are Exchange Only lines however it says we are on cabinet 4 on the wholesale checker, which is the same cabinet as the other end of the village. The real reason for ommision? 8 feet of telegraph wire to connect our lines to the main trunk instead of the current line which goes round the village 4 times, hence being too bad quality to handle anything above 3mbit.

I don't understand how an area which houses the highest tax payers in a fiscal area is the only area to not recieve a service paid for by the UK tax payer, when the areas full of population who pay no tax at all and leech off those that do get 80mbit for free.

Oh and be careful if on BT, your supplied router will allow people to leech your broadband if they pay BT by the minute. It is supposed to be opt-in but acts as a community hub as standard.
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That sucks! LOL BT. And LOL UK Govt.
 
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