Reducing ping on fibre

Craig321 · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:18

Hi

My ping isn't bad by any means, but I was wondering if it's still possible to sacrifice some speed for a better ping? I know you could do this on DSL, but not sure about fibre?

What's the terminology for it that the BT call centre would understand, if it is possible with fibre?

Thanks

Rainmaker · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:32

You're referring to interleaving mate. AFAIK it's supposed to be turned off by default once a line is seen to be stable (they use Dynamic Line Management, DLM). That said it's known to be rather a flaky system from what little I've read. Still worth an ask I suppose.

KIA · 11 Mar 2014 at 10:53

It can't be turned off by staff.

Craig321 · 11 Mar 2014 at 18:31

Rainmaker said:
You're referring to interleaving mate. AFAIK it's supposed to be turned off by default once a line is seen to be stable (they use Dynamic Line Management, DLM). That said it's known to be rather a flaky system from what little I've read. Still worth an ask I suppose.

Thanks, will have a look into it

KIA said:
It can't be turned off by staff.

Is that a new thing? Thought they used to be able to do this?

KIA · 11 Mar 2014 at 18:58

Craig321 said:
Is that a new thing? Thought they used to be able to do this?

It has been this way since the start of the VDSL2 roll-out. There's still an option to disable interleaving on BT wholesale ADSL connections.