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Issues with FTC

Profiterole
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Registered: ‎23-07-2015

Issues with FTC

I've been experiencing a lot of issues with my fibre connection lately.  Usually when VPN-ing into work using SoftPhone, WebEx etc.  Connection drops, lots of distortion - but I wasn't sure if that was the company VPN or the apps I was using.

 

Today I've had major issues connecting to games and Netflix during the night, with extremely slow buffering, packet loss etc.  I checked the speed via my router and it seemed extremely low.  So I've rebooted and it's still showing the following:

 

5. DSL uptime: 0 days, 00:06:31
6. Data rate: 7735 / 42051
7. Maximum data rate: 7735 / 47805
8. Noise margin: 5.9 / 7.2
9. Line attenuation: 33.7 / 21.4
10. Signal attenuation: 34.5 / 19.5

 

It doesn't look right to me?  

It's not been right ever since Openreach sub-contracted to put in a new cabinet which took many weeks and included me losing phone then internet loss for about 4-5 days.  Mostly I haven't seen too much of an issue with speed (until today) but the quality of the line is definitely worse.

 

Next steps please?

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Profiterole
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Posts: 45
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Registered: ‎23-07-2015

Re: Issues with FTC

Did a BT speed test - 35M down, ~8M up, so no issues there.  It wouldn't go to the next page to run a detailed analysis though - tried twice and each time I received a message (pretty quickly) that it had timed out.

 

Oh and I should mention that, apart from Netflix, work VPN and main use is via ethernet, not wifi.

OskarPapa
Plusnet Alumni (retired)
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Registered: ‎09-10-2018

Re: Issues with FTC

Hi @Profiterole, thanks for your posts and for the stats provided.

 

On checking the line, we can see that everything does seem to be OK, although we are seeing that the line is banded to 44mbps, as shown below:

 

GEA Test Detail
Circuit ID NA Service ID  
 
 
Test Outcome Pass
Test Outcome Code GTC_FTTC_SERVICE_0000
Description GEA service test completed and no fault found .
Main Fault Location OK
Sync Status In Sync
Downstream Speed 42.1 Mbps
Upstream Speed 7.7 Mbps
Appointment Required N
Fault Report Advised N
NTE Power Status PowerOn
Voice Line Test Result Pass
Bridge Tap Not Detected
Radio Frequency Ingress Not Detected
Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise Not Detected
Cross Talk Not Detected
Estimated Line Length In Metres 788.0
Upstream Rate Assessment Good
Downstream Rate Assessment Good
Interference Pattern Not Detected
Service Impact No Impact Observed
Home Wiring Problem Not Detected
Downstream Policing Discard Rate 0.0
Customer Traffic Level Upstream and Downstream Traffic Detected
Technology VDSL
Current 15Min Bin Retrains 0
Last 15Min Bin Retrains 0
DP Type External
Profile Name 0.128M-44M Downstream, Retransmission Low - 0.128M-10M Upstream, Error Protection Off
Time Stamp 2019-09-22T20:00:00
Parameters MIN MAX AVG
Down Stream Line Rate 44.0 Mbps 44.0 Mbps 44.0 Mbps
Up Stream Line Rate 7.6 Mbps 7.7 Mbps 7.7 Mbps
Up Time 602.0 Sec 900.0 Sec 899.6 Sec
Retrains 0.0 1.0 0.0
Current and Last 15 Minute Bin Performance
Parameters Last Traffic Count(Upto 15 mins) Current Traffic Count(Upto 15 mins)
Start Time Stamp 2019-10-05T18:38:00Z 2019-10-05T18:53:00Z
Ingress Code Violation 0 0
Egress Code Violation 0 0
Errored Seconds 0 0
Severely Errored Seconds 0 0
Unavailable Seconds 0 0

 

The banding would indicate that there's something out of place and so we'll more than likely need to get an engineer out to investigate.

 

Before we do that, though, we'd advise to utilise the test socket for around 48 hours to see if you see any improvement. If so, we can reasonably confident that it's an internal issue. If not, we'll raise the issue to BT Wholesale and arrange for the engineer.

 

Please let us know how it goes.