topic Re: Qube Engineer made things worse in Broadband

Qube Engineer made things worse

drbillsw — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:26:42 GMT

For the 3-4 weeks I have been getting speeds close to and below my guaranteed speed. I pay for a 36Mb/s line, I am guaranteed 24Mb/s down and should get 6-7Mb/s up.

For the last few weeks I have been getting 14-24Mb/s down, 4Mb/s up. Today the Qube engineer came changed the socket, suggested I switched the BT home hub router to the Plusnet home hub one and I’m now getting 10-14Mb/s down and 0.3-0.4Mb/s up.

Frustrating…

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

jab1 — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:33:45 GMT

@drbillsw PN staff are unlikely to reply at a weekend so:

For Community members to be able to help, information from these two sites, as screenshots, posted as pictures within the topic, not as attachments:-

BT Broadband(obscuring your phone number) and BTW Performance Tester - Over a wired (ethernet) connection if at all possible, please report the 'ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSTICS', and sight of the broadband connection status from your Hub would be a good starting point.

For the Hub One -

Navigate from the Home Screen to Troubleshooting > Helpdesk

For the Hub Two -

Navigate from the Home Screen to Advanced Settings > Technical Log > Information

It may also be a good idea to report the results of a Quiet Line Test - dial 17070 option 2 from a (preferably corded) phone. After the confirmation of your phone number, there should be total silence apart from the regular 'Quiet Line Test' announcement. Any other noise - report a PHONE fault first.

If phone test is OK then take the front off your telephone master socket, you may need to remove two screws. In behind you will find the test socket. Plug a filter in here and connect that to your hub. If it’s still dropping out then report a fault at https://faults.plus.net.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

Mav — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:07:00 GMT

Moderator's note(s):

Thread moved from Full Fibre to Broadband.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

drbillsw — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:31:44 GMT

Hi,

I'm not sure how to attach pictures to the topic but I have put them in my public images at the following link:

https://community.plus.net/t5/media/v4/gallerypage/user-id/113724/album-id/33946/tab/albums#.YuVpYp0eg8Q.link

Not sure why it is suggesting my maximum possible speed is 17Mb/s as that is lower than I have been getting for two years (30 Mb/s+) and less than I was guaranteed both times I have renewed.

I can't try the silent phone test as I haven't had a landline phone for over a decade haha.

Thanks

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

jab1 — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:36:05 GMT

@drbillsw Unfortunately, those images are a little blurred, but from what I can see, I would suggest you raise a fault via: https://www.plus.net/help/report-a-problem/broadband/

Unfortunate you don't have a phone - it is a very useful test implement on ADSL/VDSL lines.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

drbillsw — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:40:06 GMT

Thanks, is there a reason why the BTW test is suggesting my line is a 17Mb/s capable line when this is lower than the estimate the last 3 years and lower than my lowest guaranteed speed?

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

jab1 — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:44:18 GMT

Yes - you have obviously had the problem for a while and the DLM equipment in the cab has tried to compensate by lowering your speed in an attempt to get some stability.

Report the issue as I suggested earlier.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

Baldrick1 — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:31:52 GMT

@drbillsw

The first screenshot shows that yesterday BT measured your speed at 34 Mbps down and 7.2 up. Are you testing over wireless or an Ethernet cable? Have you tried a factory reset of your hub by pushing a paperclip or similar in the Reset hole, keeping the switch closed for about 30 secs?

Do you have a static IP address?

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

Gandalf — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:06:27 GMT

Hi there,

I'm really sorry to see you're having speed issues.

The BTW performance result is showing a maximum achievable of 17mbps, because that's what your router's in sync at.

I've tested your line today and the tests are showing a high resistance fault as well as a "Dis In Network" which would suggest there's a disconnection or break somewhere along the line, causing these issues.

I've raised this to Openreach and I've been given an estimated response time of by 03/08/22 23:59:59 for an engineer to investigate further. We'll update you via the ticket logged Here as soon as we know more.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

jab1 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:10:36 GMT

So that 'Dis(connect) in network' and HR fault are the causes, the Qube engineer visit achieved nothing?

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

Gandalf — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:18:43 GMT

It seems that way but we couldn't have known as our tests didn't pick up on these faults previously.

Re: Qube Engineer made things worse

jab1 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 12:35:28 GMT

Fair enough. 😀