Oh well

[kraftee]

No sign of Clifton/Ruddington getting the new FTTC broadband in the
foreseeable future and East Leake is even further away..

Sorry SM I've done the best I can

[Fastmoggy]

No worries Virgin( take the mick) media is the one for us kat's!

Makes you shed a tear when thinking back to the good ole freeserve days !


"kraftee" wrote in message news:sLmdnTJTMMyueOnS...@bt.com...

[Nick B.]

On 29/03/2012 23:41, kraftee wrote:
> No sign of Clifton/Ruddington getting the new FTTC broadband in the
> foreseeable future and East Leake is even further away..
>

Gutted!

So what's BT 21CN performance like off EMRDDIN? I'm presently on Be LLU
but considering a move elsewhere. It isn't the fastest ADSL2+ but it's
been reliable for the last two years or so.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1875572620.png

No I'm not going back to VM!

--
Nick B.

[kraftee]

"Nick B." <replytoisnot@invalid> wrote in message
news:j_ydnbM2h5uhB-HS...@giganews.com...

Sorry it's a bit late but I've been laid up, proper poorly (still am...on
second set of antibiotics with a threatened X-ray if I don't get bettere
soon).

The answer to you question would be where abouts are you in ref to the
exchange.

I live in the maze between Swansdown and the tower block and I get around
4-5Mbps (hitting some sites with multiple streams can get it up to 6Mbps)
but I do know that it can and indeed does drop off dramatically depending
where you are on the estate (putting lousy Aluminum in the ground instead of
Copper, the cheap skates).

The one good thing is that there would be little difference between the
speed you are getting if you do decide to change providers, what does change
is the actual support (or should I say the lack of it).

Anyway I'm off to cough up more pints of green goo, got fed up scrapping it
off the monitor ;-(

[Nick B.]

On 13/04/2012 16:44, kraftee wrote:


> The answer to you question would be where abouts are you in ref to the
> exchange.

I think I'm closer to Rudd than you are. What route do the cables take
from there?

Checker says
"Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line
indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband
service that provides a fixed line speed up to 2Mbps.


Our test also indicates that your line currently supports an estimated
ADSL Max broadband line speed of 4Mbps; typically the line speed would
range between 3Mbps and 7Mbps.


Our test also indicates that your line currently supports an estimated
ADSL2+ broadband line speed of 5.5Mbps; typically the line speed would
range between 3Mbps and 8Mbps. Our test also indicates that your line
could support an estimated ADSL 2+ Annex-M broadband upstream line speed
of 1Mbps and downstream line speed of 5.5Mbps; typically the downstream
speed would range between 3Mbps and 8Mbps."

> I live in the maze between Swansdown and the tower block and I get
> around 4-5Mbps (hitting some sites with multiple streams can get it up
> to 6Mbps) but I do know that it can and indeed does drop off
> dramatically depending where you are on the estate (putting lousy
> Aluminum in the ground instead of Copper, the cheap skates).
>

You made me aware of the aluminium cable issue a while back before I
signed up for O2 LLU. I have to say the connection speed has been stable
for the last 2+ years.

> The one good thing is that there would be little difference between the
> speed you are getting if you do decide to change providers, what does
> change is the actual support (or should I say the lack of it).
>

--
Nick B.
Yes support is a key issue but as you know you only find out how good it
is when you actually test it, and you get ping-ponged between ISP and
OpenReach, ISP gets you to agree to pay any charges if NFF by OpenReach
etc etc. I've had this issue with some ADSLs at remote sites in the day
job. In the end they tried to blame it on Cisco ADSL firmware.

[kraftee]

"Nick B." <replytoisnot@invalid> wrote in message

news:_vCdnTV1wJ87mBbS...@giganews.com...

Well Ciscos' do tend to be flakey when it comes to weaker signals so I can
understand that (one regular monthly visit was to a cash machine in a
village where all we could do is turn it off wait 30 seconds and then turn
it back on, worked every time)

[Nick B.]

On 15/04/2012 19:28, kraftee wrote:

> Well Ciscos' do tend to be flakey when it comes to weaker signals so I
> can understand that (one regular monthly visit was to a cash machine in
> a village where all we could do is turn it off wait 30 seconds and then
> turn it back on, worked every time)

Sometimes works. More interesting if you have a console cable plugged in
and can watch the logs.

This particular temperamental one was dead when I arrived on site, after
being down for a few days. I picked up the handset to check the line, as
soon as I got a dial tone the ADSL burst back into life!

--
Nick B.

[kraftee]

"Nick B." <replytoisnot@invalid> wrote in message

news:fpSdnTmVCcsd7xHS...@giganews.com...

??????

That sound like a HR connection to me, the current flow bridging the small
gap left by corrosion. A bugger to find as all line tests will miss it..

[Fastmoggy]

Well as they say
better the devil you know and even faster sooner or later at 20meg! Who
would have believed all this in the early naughties when 56k was super fast!

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