Feedback From Fibre Upgrade

[#1]

Today I was upgraded to fibre so thought I would feed back my experience.
To be honest, having read of the many issues people are having I was expecting problems. The morning started potentially badly with me receiving an email saying that the change was now complete. As I was receiving the message through my old ADSL link half a day before OR were due to do the work I feared the worst was starting to happen. I rang customer support and was informed that there was a 15 minute wait. Even before a could start composing a potentially offensive message on this forum (only a few minutes to be honest) I got through to a PN agent. She explained that I had received an automatic message that simply came out on the swap over day. She then went on to check that the booking was still confirmed for this afternoon. Sure enough after lunch the line went dead and around 1 Hr later an OR contractor turned up.
He could not have been more helpful. Having installed the OR modem he went to the trouble of setting up my Asus N55U router for me.
Whilst my download sync rate is 80Mbps I am currently managing 23Mbps. Hopefully this will improve.
I guess that a summary of my feedback at the moment is: Whilst some people are undoubtedly having problems things can go well. However PN should consider whether sending automatic emails before work is done is wise. If as seems to happen, OR had missed the appointment it would have given a message that PN are not behaving in a professional and competent manner.. Or put another way, shooting themselves in the foot!

[#2]

Thanks for the feedback. It goes to show that most installs go absolutely fine, but people in general only hear about the negatives stories.
Your speed should be around 40Mbit now, so I'm a little surprised that the throughput is so low. We may need to look at that in more detail later (make sure you're using wired connections when testing).
I take your point, but we do it this way so that we can ensure the account is ready for when the engineer arrives. In theory it saves contacts from customers still being on DSL speeds, or even not able to connect after the engineer has visited.

[#3]

It all seemed to start so well...
My download speed has not improved. It seems to fluctuate between around 7 and 23Mbps. I thought that it would not be appropriate to complain until I fitted the PN router in place of my Asus unit. I had trouble getting it working so rang in and was talked through manual set up. The problem was that the auto configuration bit wasn't working. The person I talked to was very helpful and tried to address the speed issue for me. I ended up setting a PPPOe session on a laptop connected to the OR modem via a CAT5e cable, so removing all routers from the loop. With this direct connection the BT Wholesale speed tester shows my typical download speed to be around 7.5Mbps and the upload around 15Mbps. I then swapped the session over to logging into speedtest@speedtest_domain and got 66.25Mbps down and 3.16Mbps up.
Has any-one got any idea what is going on? Also if PN staff come along can they please check to see if this has been logged as a fault and is being addressed.
Thanks.

[#4]

This has been raised as a fault and I'm overseeing it from afar. Your sync rates are actually fine so it'll definitely require a little further investigation.
Matty

[#5]

Thanks Matty, I feel happier knowing tou are on the case.

[#6]

Following on from a similar posting I have just asked Chris P for assistance. He fixed my issue in 5 minutes. I would say to any-one getting hot under the collar about PN's performance to persist on this forum. There are PN staff who are both knowledgeable and helpful out there doing a grand job.

[#7]

How very very strange! Everything was set correctly on our side, all I did was set something wrong and then move it to the right value again.

[#8]

Well, that belies the saying -'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
I have to agree with baldrick, I have found the forums the best route to solving issues. The Plusnet staff and many of the members are very knowledgeable and helpful.

[#9]

To be fair, sometimes when all "appears" to be correctly configured, it takes extra experience to consider that something hidden is wrong and the route to fix is to change the settings from right to wrong and back to right.

[#10]

I totally agree with Townman. But.... There appears to be a systematic error in PN's system management software. This begs the questions:
How many others have this problem.
Will the PN fault team be made aware of this possible 'Fix'.
Will PN correct the possible fault

[#11]

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Will the PN fault team be made aware of this possible 'Fix'.

I'm trying to get a few examples of this happening so I can get it opened as a problem (and not just a one-off) to get the underlying cause fixed.