Talktalk LLU

Joe42 · 6 Apr 2007 at 16:00

Our Talktalk broadband has been on 2mb ever since we ordered it, however last week it went up to 8mb, and i assumed that meant they had now fitted their own equipment in our exchange and we would now get 8mb forever.
However, after a few days it went back down to 2mb and a week later its still 2mb.
Is this normal, when ISPs fit their own equipment in an exchange do they normally test it first, and fully enable it later or something?

SamKnows said:
CPW / TalkTalk: RFS date set (Date unknown)

I found this, does this mean they are in the process of fitting their equipment to our exchange?

Thanks

tolien · 6 Apr 2007 at 21:00

Last I saw, TalkTalk wouldn't tell anyone when they were going to install their kit so the absence of an RFS date isn't particularly meaningful.
Is it connected at 2Mbps now?

Joe42 · 6 Apr 2007 at 22:17

tolien said:
Last I saw, TalkTalk wouldn't tell anyone when they were going to install their kit so the absence of an RFS date isn't particularly meaningful.

I read something about this on samknows, its really annoying tbh. I've emailed them and asked them for a date. I'll be lucky if i even get a response i expect but i thought i may as well try.

Is it connected at 2Mbps now?

Yes, and it speedtests at 2mb too.
It was connected at 8mb (and speedtested at around 6mb) for about a day, before going down for a while and then coming back on at 2mb, where its been ever since.
I'm just wondering if this is normal or should it be 8mb and something reverted back to 2mb that shouldn't have...

Thanks for your help.

tolien · 6 Apr 2007 at 23:21

It might be worth phoning them, but I wouldn't expect to get any sense out of them.

CurlyWhirly · 9 Apr 2007 at 09:27

tolien said:
Last I saw, TalkTalk wouldn't tell anyone when they were going to install their kit so the absence of an RFS date isn't particularly meaningful.

I wonder why Talk Talk are hiding this info?

Other ISP's don't do it, for example, Sky has recently unbundled my exchange and on samknows.com it clearly says on the LLU section that my exchange is unbundled:

"Easynet / Sky: Enabled"

tolien · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:17

At a guess, because if you knew you weren't on an LLU exchange, their "up to 8Mbps" would look a lot less appealing (IIRC TT don't use Max, or at least damned few get >2Mbps).

CurlyWhirly · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:27

tolien said:
At a guess, because if you knew you weren't on an LLU exchange, their "up to 8Mbps" would look a lot less appealing (IIRC TT don't use Max, or at least damned few get >2Mbps).

Cheers, yeah that makes sense.

No wonder why AOL users have lots of complaints about slow speeds as Talk Talk now own it :eek:

phi1 · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:31

I am on there 2mb aswell. I hope i get LLU soon...