When on ADSL2+ my connection was a bit unstable, disconnecting and reconnecting a few times a week due to fairly low target SNR. I've been connected to Fibre Pro for nearly a week now without any disconnections. What makes Fibre so much more stable? Is it just a higher target SNR or something else?
Sky Fibre Optic
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Only a short run of copper between the cab and the property (in most cases).
I'm no further away from the exchange than before but I guess you probably mean what KIA does (?)
Thanks, that would make sense. I think I'm about 400m from the cabinet and the estate is less than 30 years old. I was pushing it a bit with the ADSL2+ on a low 3dB profile. It's just great to have a stable and reliable connection (so far)!
I too, have noticed that my connection is much more stable.
On ADSL 2+, my router would (drop its connection and reconnect) at least once/week. And the faster the sync rate, the less time it would maintain the connection. Sometimes the connection would hold for less than 30 minutes.
When the sync rate was slow (eg. 3Mbps), the connection would sometimes hold for a few weeks.
With fibre, the connection is maintained for around 2-4 weeks, between re-connections.
On ADSL 2+, my router would (drop its connection and reconnect) at least once/week. And the faster the sync rate, the less time it would maintain the connection. Sometimes the connection would hold for less than 30 minutes.
When the sync rate was slow (eg. 3Mbps), the connection would sometimes hold for a few weeks.
With fibre, the connection is maintained for around 2-4 weeks, between re-connections.
Well BTO came out yesterday apparently the last guy left my house with two separate phone numbers coming into my house which was causing the issue??
My speedtest.net checks are still nowhere near 40/10 but the router is showing full sync speeds....and my pings to bbc.co.uk are 8ms and on speedtest.net 500+
How can I get a true test of speeds? Microsoft servers don't seem to max out my connection any more either, I need to work out if I should be logging a fault call, I can see the BT box from my house so full speed should be correct
Mart
My speedtest.net checks are still nowhere near 40/10 but the router is showing full sync speeds....and my pings to bbc.co.uk are 8ms and on speedtest.net 500+
How can I get a true test of speeds? Microsoft servers don't seem to max out my connection any more either, I need to work out if I should be logging a fault call, I can see the BT box from my house so full speed should be correct
Mart
Nothing over 20mb and 500+ pings
Going to test again tonight on another laptop as I have a horrible feeling it could be something to do with that ......
My understanding is that the SKY router is a little "ifffy" when using the wireless and struggles to hit 40Mbps. No problems on a wired connection.
If I were you I would get it working at 40Mbps on a wired connection, then switch over to a wireless connection.
Your connection should be faster than 20Mbps.
BTW: after the engineer's visit, did your throughput speeds change?
PS. Ignore the sync rate. The main thing is actual throughput and Speedtest is plenty fast enough to max out a 40Mbps connection.
Nothing changed after the engineer came and left, will try cabled on another machine tonight and report back
Thanks
Nothing changed after the engineer came and left, will try cabled on another machine tonight and report back
Thanks
Did your engineer do any speed test whilst at your house? Mine did this one:
http://www.speedtester.bt.com/
The download speeds seem accurate but pings always seem to be very high with that site. Best ping test is pinging bbc.co.uk from cmd.
As sunama has already advised, do all of your speed testing wired just to completely take wireless out of the equation.
Just to double check, make sure nothing else at all is taking your bandwidth such as your phone, apps on your pcs that use bandwidth or any other devices.
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Right, new laptop new laptop and on wifi (once battery charge I'll plug it in)
This pleases me so must have been my work laptop being rubbish...
I bet the pings are single figures when I plug in via a cable, will post more in a bit
This pleases me so must have been my work laptop being rubbish...
I bet the pings are single figures when I plug in via a cable, will post more in a bit
