When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
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Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 6:41 PM
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Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 6:43 PM
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Virgin have their own gear they don't use anything of the Openreach setup, but that said they to can have issues with congestion I know someone that has a 300Mb connection that drops to around 50Mb most evenings sometimes lower than that but someone else that doesn't have any at all and enjoys 300Mb 24/7.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 6:46 PM
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@Terranova667 Thanks. Music to my ears - "only" 50Mb most evenings is around 20 times faster than what I'm getting with PlusNet!
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 6:47 PM
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Hi - how will another visit help me? Please escalate to BT Wholesale now.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 7:04 PM
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From support:
Our suppliers have certain criteria which needs to be met before they will accept an escalation. Raising an escalation after 1 engineer visit will likely be declined I'm afraid.
I have had THREE visits from engineers!!
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
15-09-2017 7:22 PM
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I've responded since that comment. Whilst you've had 3 engineers out, as far as I can see we've only arranged 1 appointment. However I have raised the escalation based on multiple repeat fault reports raised.
We'll follow up on Monday.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
16-09-2017 12:24 AM - edited 16-09-2017 12:29 AM
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My money would be on the SVLAN or another part of BTW's kit ignore what they say, and get them to move you onto another bit of btw kit, their monitoring sucks sometimes
engineers are unlikely going to be of help, (hope you aren't being charged for these visits ) if you are getting offered the TAP3 test during the periods when throughput is low the result should be sufficient evidence for wholesale to sort it out, it probably needs escalating within wholesale itself for a proper resolution
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
16-09-2017 2:17 AM
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the whole industry is built on fraud and deceit. just look at the amount of threds in these forums about people complaining they are not getting the speeds they were misled into buying.
then they just give you the run around trying to make out like it's your problem and you are to blame. disgusting con man tricks.
everyone needs to come together and take these companies to court and get justice. it's the only real way things will improve as right now they are just laughing at us.
first practical thing you need to do is report them to offcom.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
17-09-2017 3:37 AM
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Unless a customer is on a full fibre FTTP or it's on demand expensive variant there will never be any guarantees on the speed that an ISP can provide, The copper pair performance is restricted by distance from Dslam to modem along with several other factors beyond the providers control, so any advertised speed will only be an estimate,
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
17-09-2017 6:54 AM
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And even on full fibre FTTP, throughput speeds still aren't guaranteed.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
17-09-2017 9:36 AM
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Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
19-09-2017 3:56 PM
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Latest update:
Plusnet tried to escalate my problem to BTwholesale on Friday afternoon. I was told that this request was refused today, but that Plusnet would try to escalate again.
At this stage I hope Plusnet has enough leverage, as the bulk buyer, to get BTwholesale to look into this. You'd think it would be a mere formality wouldn't you?
I have a service which everyone agrees is well below-par, have had three Openreach visits, and jumped through every testing 'hoop' so we can rule out the obvious.
I'm not sure what will happen from here, but I am sure that I'm feeling more and more undervalued as a customer.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
19-09-2017 4:12 PM
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Since my last update by email on your ticket, the escalation was refused a second time round. After raising it a third time and the escalation adviser discussing this with our faults team by phone, I'm advised they've accepted the escalation.
We should hear back within 24 hours.
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
19-09-2017 4:16 PM
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Thank you @Gandalf - I would love to have some insight on those conversations, and I'm sure I'm not the only one! Especially how the refusals were justified - and then exactly what changed their minds.
Fingers crossed!
Re: When congestion is given as a reason for speed drops, how much is acceptable?
19-09-2017 4:43 PM
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We've received notification back that they've accepted the escalation. I've updated your fault ticket, if you can reply to it with your availability for another engineers visit we can get it booked in for you.
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