Enforced absence

Unsurprising. The line speeds of 79.9 or 50+ or 16Mbps are just that - line speeds between you and the kit at the exchange. What end-to-end speed you get is going to depend on a whole load of other factors.

Unsurprising to you maybe but it's the line speed that's being promoted to sell the service. I'm sure I'm not alone in being a bit underwhelmed by an FTTC "upgrade".

Tim

En el artículo , Tim+ escribió:

Yes, thanks. Have my eye on this one:

Opinions?

I'm with Plusnet (got a good deal on fibre) and they supply their own "One" Hub which apparently is a rebadged BT Home Hub 5. Googling around, this appears to be ok, so I'll use it for the time being. It's a combined modem/router so just one power plug.

Understood. I had a long hard think, but am downloading a lot of HD movies and 4k video. 11Mbps ADSL chugs a bit with that.

My contract is up in October and +net made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Basically fibre for less than I'm paying for ADSL now.

I've gone with 40Mbps for now with the option to upgrade to 80 later. Am hoping Plusnet pick up on the BT Internet thing - they offer 52Mbps VDSL as a free upgrade to 40Mbps if you call them.

Is that just you? Do you have kids? I think if you have kids with their own devices and iThings, consoles, etc. it quickly goes downhill.

Just been out in the hot sun and given the Openreach engineers working in the cabs (the original green cab and the new fibre one) a cold drink

- the modern day equivalent of tea and choccy biccys for the BT engineer

- and made sure they know where I live and that the fibre is due to be made live tomorrow. They're currently enabling the fibre street cabinet.

Thanks for the reply.

It's what we have. Seems okay but found the 5Ghz setting a waste of time. Range very limited in our house. Seems very stable and has hardly needed any reboots in the last year. Had to fiddle with the mtu setting which took a bit of finding but got there in the end.

Yep, 4k video would probably be the "game changer" if we were to get into that scene. Not there currently though.

Just the two of us. Kids booted out years ago. ;-). We use a lot of iThings too so I'm sure our wifi is probably the rate limiting step a lot of the time.

Tim

A while back some some friends when for the highest speed ADSL BB BT had to offer only to find they couldn't get anthing near that ITRW.

Doing a 'what speed can I get' test (now they had BB) suggested they could only just get a service, let alone get a 'good one'.

They contacted BT and basically said it was their fault for ordering above what they could actually achieve. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

Overhead electricity supplies were still in use in a small private estate in Stoke-on-Trent fifteen years ago. And inter-house overhead wiring with the supply to each group of houses buried in the street was quite prevalent.

Private estate or otherwise I think it's interesting to know this sort of thing is still in use *these days*.

It makes sense it's still current with mobile stuff like electric trains, trams (and dodgems ) but not (urban) houses.

Cheers, T i m

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I'm just in a similar experience. BT saying at the end of my fixed term contract they would put me on Infinity 2 if I didn't renew. Max line speed according to their test is 32mb/s. I've written to Ofcom and their complaints handler.

Was this an end-to-end (i.e. speed to some distant website) they were doing, or a line-speed test to their local exchange?

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Some people, including D i m don't understand the meaning of "up to".

And 'some people' (like Tomlinson) don't have the ability to comprehend anything in the third party (as *I* was fully aware of the whole thing and had been for years).

I don't blame him though, he can't help it. ;-(

Cheers, T i m