@Andrue
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| Well I wouldn't trust anything a BT engineer told me. They don't have the time to get into protracted conversations with the general public. They will tell Joe Public whatever they think Joe wants to hear so that they can get out and get onto the next job before their supervisor starts shouting at them. |
I saw the engineers test results myself. It was showing 80/20.
Bottom line is my line was synced at 80/20 three weeks ago now all of a sudden it dropped to 64/20. Crosstalk being the cause or not being the cause does not make this acceptable.
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It's just like quoting likely speeds on the M25 around Gatwick as:
Off-peak (Clean) : 60 to 80.
Peak (Impacted): 20 to 50
Nothing about that implies that motorists are going to be controlled and forced to drive slower. It's just a prediction based on experience. |
Bad analogy.
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| At 64Mb/s your connection is either at the bottom of the prediction for perfect cabling or somewhere in the middle for slightly poor cabling. No-one is doing anything deliberate to slow you down. |
Yeah... at the bottom. A few weeks ago I was synced at 80/20 now I've had a ~21% reduction in line speed from 76Mb/s to 60Mb/s.
I never said anyone was deliberately slowing my connection. However, I will say that ISPs need to stop overloading FTTC cabinets with more customers until BT can increase the capacity of their infrastructure.
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| There's absolutely no point getting angry. |
I am not complacent with BT, and the ISPs that use BT's infrastructure, overloading the FTTC cabinets with more connections than they can handle causing peoples fibre speeds to drops whilst still charging the same amount..
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| BT have already announced the next phase of local loop upgrades. |
Could you elaborate on BT's plans to upgrade, please. Are you referring to vectoring?
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| But in simple terms: Calm down! You are not being victimised here. It's just an unfortunate and expected feature of VDSL. |
There are many people that are being victimised by their ISPs. BT are
knowingly overloading their infrastructure with more connections than their dated infrastructure can handle.
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http://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/2014/vectoring-crosstalk-crisis| Quote |
| Perhaps the most worrying aspect of crosstalk currently is the fact that most ISPs do not alert customers to its presence and potential impact over time. For example, despite the fact that BT provides “impacted” line speed estimates through its Broadband Availability Checker, BT’s retail website provides its own speed estimates for customers considering signing up to its Infinity services, as shown in the example below. In this case, the “impacted” line speed estimates from the BT Availability Checker (falling lower than 70 Mbps on the downlink) are substantially lower than the estimated speed range for BT Infinity |
But as long as BT and the other ISPs keep getting their direct debits whilst customers keep getting worse service over time, then all is good right...
