End of my Tether..
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End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 7:09 PM
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Reported a fault with my broadband line on the 7th of April. The connection was slow and the sync speed down to 0.5mb. Not long after, the line totally went down and we had no broadband at all for a few days. It then came back at a whopping speed of 0.2mb sync speed. Using speedtest, I was getting 0.18mb download speeds. (Wow!)
Throughout all this, I have been liaising with Plusnet and I have to say that I have not been impressed. To cut a long story short, a BT Openreach Engineer arrived today when my wife was at home. He said the line was okay and changed the telephone socket for a new one. I would have expected him to run some sort of speed test, but no, he didn't. The line is still pathetic with my download speed 0.18mb.
What now? We've tried a new router, new filter, new cables, had Openreach here with no fault found, yet the speed is unusable and fit for nothing.
Really angry and have no idea what to try next!
Thanks
Re: End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 7:14 PM
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Re: End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 9:08 PM
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Hopefully the stats below are what you're looking for
From the BT site:
Download speed 0.2
Upload 0.34
PlusNet current line speed is 0.2mb
Router Stats for my Netgear DG834PN
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 52096 65678 0 1043 9726 01:57:33
LAN 10M/100M 87338 72661 0 5185 878 03:34:26
WLAN 11M/54M 52752 52718 0 2572 864 03:34:21
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4891 kbps 443 kbps
Line Attenuation 48.0 db 23.9 db
Noise Margin 5.9 db 23.4 db
Many thanks
Re: End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 9:12 PM
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One more thing
When you do the BT test can you click on Further Diagnostics as we need to know the IP profile
But at a first guess the IP profile will be 4313kbps and hence the bottleneck is the Plusnet profile which needs sorting - that should be picked up here tomorrow
It appears that the BT engineer fixed the problem
Re: End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 9:56 PM
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Just tried to get the further diagnostic information regarding the IP, but it only gives me download/upload speed again as it says there was an error trying to retrieve further information. (I have tried 3 times now, but to no avail)
When you say the bottleneck with the Plusnet profile should be picked up here tomorrow, do you mean from my open ticket with Plusnet or literally from the forum?
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Re: End of my Tether..
23-04-2014 10:26 PM
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Re: End of my Tether..
24-04-2014 1:30 PM
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We've given your connection profile a bit of a nudge. Let us know if this has improved your speeds at all!
Re: End of my Tether..
24-04-2014 8:51 PM
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My speed is back up around the 4mb mark. Obviously frustrated that this has taken since the 7th of April to get a fix.
Just waiting to hear from Plusnet re compensation for the downtime and the unusable speeds.
Many thanks to Oldjim for his prompt response and help. Shame it took me writing on the forum to get any meaningful advice.
Thanks
Re: End of my Tether..
28-04-2014 6:57 PM
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This is very tedious now.
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28-04-2014 7:06 PM
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Can you please clarify "totally" down again?
The NG router stats are not overly informative - there is nothing indicating transmission error rates. The Synch speed is a bit slow for 48dB, though the WAN line suggests a much better capability. The ND also does not identify the modulation type in use. Do you have another router you could try please?
Have you worked through the fault reporter here - http://faults.plus.net ?
Is there any noise on your phone line?
Is the speed test being done over a wired or a wifi connection? If the latter can you please try wired so as to eliminate the possibility of a local wifi issue.
What is the current IP profile reported by the BTw speed test and that shown on the PN portal - see the "speed issues" sticky ay the top of this forum.
In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
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Re: End of my Tether..
28-04-2014 7:13 PM
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Totally down as in I have no broadband connection at all. Using 3G to update the forum.
Yes - I've tried it all and have a ticket still open. Advice is usually quicker on the forum.
Bit difficult to run tests with no broadband.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks
Re: End of my Tether..
28-04-2014 7:20 PM
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You can run the faults checker with the BB down from any connection you can attain.
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Re: End of my Tether..
28-04-2014 8:01 PM
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Ran the fault checker and updated the ticket yet again. Openreach found no issue with the line the other day, so I await the Plusnet response with interest. It's a shame they're never that quick at responding. An issue ongoing since the 7th of April is unacceptable.
Thanks
Re: End of my Tether..
29-04-2014 3:27 PM
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29-04-2014 6:01 PM
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A good call - one I should have asked for
Quite line test - dial 17070 option 2 - there should be near silence!
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