Plusnet IP Profile vs BT BRAS Profile
A bit of background; my plusnet performance has been getting perceptively slower over the last couple of months - not so slow as to be unusable, but certainly slow enough for me to wonder what's going on with the connection. My router is always rock solid and apart from some problems I had when I initially moved into my current house two and a half years ago, it always syncs at 8128/448 as I live about 100 yards from the exchange and the BT hole-in-the-ground for my street is in my front garden 
I don't suffer from re-syncing; but the router does get periodically rebooted (maybe once a month) - for example when I rebooted it today, it showed that the WAN link had been stable for the last 20 days or so.
I'm pretty well up on how BT set your IP profile for your line, but until I did some digging today I didn't know that plusnet maintain their own IP speed profile for your line. When you do this kind of thing for a living you CBA to do it when you get home! My question is therefore, if I constantly sync at 8128, my BRAS IP profile (according to BT is 7150) is it normal for my plusnet IP profile to be some half-a-megabit lower at 6500 kbits?
Of course, this alone doesn't explain the slow downloads speeds I'm getting at the moment (Microsoft earlier today was going at a line busting 150 kbits for example) but you've got to start somewhere. Any help someone in the know could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't suffer from re-syncing; but the router does get periodically rebooted (maybe once a month) - for example when I rebooted it today, it showed that the WAN link had been stable for the last 20 days or so.
I'm pretty well up on how BT set your IP profile for your line, but until I did some digging today I didn't know that plusnet maintain their own IP speed profile for your line. When you do this kind of thing for a living you CBA to do it when you get home! My question is therefore, if I constantly sync at 8128, my BRAS IP profile (according to BT is 7150) is it normal for my plusnet IP profile to be some half-a-megabit lower at 6500 kbits?
Of course, this alone doesn't explain the slow downloads speeds I'm getting at the moment (Microsoft earlier today was going at a line busting 150 kbits for example) but you've got to start somewhere. Any help someone in the know could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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tD
Quote from: Anotherone Also M$ downloads can be throttled at M$ end.
They can, but I suspect it's highly unlikely for them to be throttled all the way down the 150 kbits per user
There are some threads around this forum where it's been worse than that at the wrong times 
Hi Rob,
You'll need to PM me the username for the relevant account if our profile hasn't caught up now. It normally updates twice a day.
We profile your speed as well as BT because there less packet loss across our network than theirs, so you actually get a marginally better speed when our profile is set right
You'll need to PM me the username for the relevant account if our profile hasn't caught up now. It normally updates twice a day.
We profile your speed as well as BT because there less packet loss across our network than theirs, so you actually get a marginally better speed when our profile is set right
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@trickyD
Hi, I was wondering how long after that resync it was when you looked at your stats. In any event with that % increase it should recover in a matter of hours (at the BT end), it might take another 12hrs for the PN one to catch up. Hopefully by the time you read this things will be back to normal.
@trickyD
Hi, I was wondering how long after that resync it was when you looked at your stats. In any event with that % increase it should recover in a matter of hours (at the BT end), it might take another 12hrs for the PN one to catch up. Hopefully by the time you read this things will be back to normal.