Just had fibre installed

devr0s — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:25:57 GMT

I understand most people are quick to complain about something but very rarely give feedback if something is good as it is expected..
I decided to upgrade from standard DSL to 40/20 fibre as the upload speed wasn't great on dsl and i fancied streaming and i have to upload a lot of pretty big stuff for a video project i'm working on, so took the plunge. My main priority for a connection is usually stability then latency then speed. As i was already on fastpath on my old adsl line and had an average ping of 20 which i was quite happy with, i was expecting a similar sort of ping with fibre. (My adsl line also would spike very frequently and i had to gateway hop for ages to get a stable connection)
I was a bit apprehensive as i understand interleaving is controlled via the dslam and cant be configured so was half thinking i might not be on fast path as the adsl line stability wasn't great.

Engineer was booked for 1-6pm. From previous experience, this usually means 6pm if your lucky and in general 6:30.
He turned up at 2pm and had everything done before 4. Very speedy stuff.
The results were pretty bloody good too:
speed test taken just now:

Tracert to multiplay:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms lo0.11.central11.ptn-bng01.plus.net [195.166.128.229]
3 9 ms 5 ms 5 ms irb.11.ptw-cr02.plus.net [84.93.249.18]
4 5 ms 5 ms 6 ms 195.66.236.224
5 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms ha01.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.26]
5ms with 5 hops? That's outstanding i was expecting maybe 15ms. I've only seen that low at lans and from hyperoptic (FTTB).. I also havent had to gateway hop in 2 days. So fingers crossed this stability continues and with any luck i'll stay on fastpath

All in all, outstanding stuff so far!
Cheers plusnet & bt engineer

Re: Just had fibre installed

Anotherone — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:37:47 GMT

Glad you've had a good experience so far. If there aren't many already on your Fibre Cab, you may see a slight slowing due to extra cross-talk as numbers increase but it looks as though you may be quite close to the cab so you may see little effect. As you've been connected for a couple of days, the DSLAM has so far decided your line is suffering few or no problems at present. Good luck.

Re: Just had fibre installed

Pettitto — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:22:34 GMT

Looking very nice! The ping is better than the one one my line and I only live around 20m away from the cabinet!

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