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Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

caldersey
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Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

I recently upgraded to unlimited fibre extra and according to PN my estimated line speed is between 63mb - 80mb, so why is my actual line speed so low? I can understand a few mb difference but these are way off!

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

What speed results do you get when you run the BTW Speedtest (This is the one that Plusnet base any help on)

http://www.speedtest.btwholesale.com/PerformanceTesterWS/diagnostics.do

Just enter your phone number and click on "Run Diagnostic Test"

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

@caldersey

Well that proves you are on the 80/20  product (as the upstream is in excess of 2Mbps) but BTW haven't set your download speed correctly. However BTW think that your speed is not 80Mbps which is not right.

If no-one from Plusnet comes along soon, I would suggest phone or Chat to get them to have a look at the downstream limit. 

 

What estimated speeds did you get before the upgrade?

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

Just phoned PN and there's a fault on the line, hopefully once fixed speeds should will be as they should be. Thanks for you help.

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

Hello @caldersey

 

I'm sorry to hear that you're having speed issues. I've looked into your account and I can see that your fault has been reported through to BT wholesale.

 

The trouble report has been accepted by Openreach, which indicates that an engineer should investigate within the next couple of working days.

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

Thanks for the update Anoush Smiley

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

No problem. Feel free to let me know what happens over the next few days.

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

Hi @Anoush

An engineer came today and made adjustments to the internal wiring and sockets inside the house. This has increased the speed to 56MB (up form 36MB). However, he said there is still a fault on the line outside the house and another engineer would need to be called in to fix it. Hopefully this'll happen within the next few days.

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

That's a pretty big jump in speed Thumbs_Up We'll see what the second engineer finds.

I'll check back on things on Monday.
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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

After the initial excitement of the speed increase, it's dropped again and now seems to we worse than it was before:speed2.jpg

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Re: Unlimited Fibre Extra - Disappointing speeds

Looking into your fault, I can see the engineer had detected a problem underground. The fault is still in hand with our suppliers so I would expect another engineer to investigate over the next couple of days.

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