Fibre speeds & IP Profile
Basically anything other than checking emails or browsing a website is getting pretty pointless between 6 and 10pm.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=142593090740853769518
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=142593090740853769518
7pm this evening and its awful - I could game better on an evening on my old ADSL connection which was only 4mb! I'll just add though, that this hasn't always been the case - fibre was great when it was first installed and (presumably) before everyone else in this area got in on the act.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=142601361385081563630
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=142601361385081563630
Engineer came this morning for their 3rd visit. Of course everything was fine, and he said the exchange was checked and fine too. No surprises so far. He then got on the phone to his department for about 20 minutes and spoke at length to them, occasionally asking me for some details of when the problems occur. End result of it was that their conclusion was:
"Its contention and your CP throttling you because they can't the amount of customers they have, apparently PlusNet are notorious for it."
His words, not mine! I then mentioned about the TAP 3 tests being terrible and that supposedly bypassed Plusnets network (do correct me if I'm wrong) to which he said it could BTW then. That's actually the first time I've heard that BTO and BTW aren't the same outfit so I guess I learned something today
So the quest continues and I'm getting less and less confident in who to believe and losing faith that this will be cleared up anytime soon.
However...speeds and latency on an evening have actually been good since Friday 13th! There were a couple of disconnects during the day (I think a lot of folks were affected if I read the service page correctly) but the evening latency was fine. So I've started keeping a log of which evening was good and which were bad. I should have started this weeks ago, but as all evenings were pretty bad it didn't occur to me. Anyway, while it has been good the two nights I used it, both time I was on the ptw-bng02 gateway.
Edit: Didn't look close enough - the ptw-bng02 was the good one I've been on over the weekend, am now on the pcl-bng02 gateway after the modem was dc'd this morning for the engineer tests. Will be interesting to see how the speeds are this evening.
"Its contention and your CP throttling you because they can't the amount of customers they have, apparently PlusNet are notorious for it."
His words, not mine! I then mentioned about the TAP 3 tests being terrible and that supposedly bypassed Plusnets network (do correct me if I'm wrong) to which he said it could BTW then. That's actually the first time I've heard that BTO and BTW aren't the same outfit so I guess I learned something today
So the quest continues and I'm getting less and less confident in who to believe and losing faith that this will be cleared up anytime soon.
However...speeds and latency on an evening have actually been good since Friday 13th! There were a couple of disconnects during the day (I think a lot of folks were affected if I read the service page correctly) but the evening latency was fine. So I've started keeping a log of which evening was good and which were bad. I should have started this weeks ago, but as all evenings were pretty bad it didn't occur to me. Anyway, while it has been good the two nights I used it, both time I was on the ptw-bng02 gateway.
Edit: Didn't look close enough - the ptw-bng02 was the good one I've been on over the weekend, am now on the pcl-bng02 gateway after the modem was dc'd this morning for the engineer tests. Will be interesting to see how the speeds are this evening.
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