Upgraded to ADSL2+ and it's all gone not quite Pete Tong!

[kinmel]

Curious. I wonder if BT are flagging some accounts differently, Alan?

It appeared when I was getting low speeds and sync rates and disappeared when the sync improved.

[DaveH]

Well my sync has increased quite a bit since I plugged into the test socket, as has the overall performance.

In fact, I doubt I'll be removing the router plug from the test socket any time soon!

[Rik]

It appeared when I was getting low speeds and sync rates and disappeared when the sync improved.

Curiouser and curiouser. Where's the white rabbit?

[Steve]

Its as Alan says I think one of the additional tests

[Rik]

Well my sync has increased quite a bit since I plugged into the test socket, as has the overall performance.

In fact, I doubt I'll be removing the router plug from the test socket any time soon!

That does point strongly at your internal wiring, Dave. Depending on how you feel about having the faceplate off, a filtered face plate is a tidier route.

[Rik]

Its as Alan says I think one of the additional tests

It will be interesting to see what support come up with.

[DaveH]

I have a room JUST for me and my PC, and to be honest, an untidy faceplate is the least of my worries!
It looks like a bomb's dropped all the time anyway, there's that much old kit lying around  

[Rik]

Welcome to the world of hoarders.

[DaveH]

Have another Karma for the help Rik.

[Rik]

Thanks.

Support tell me that they've not seen this before, so they're not sure what triggers it unless, as Alan suggests, it's a process BT switch to if your line is having stability problems. More if I get any.

[kinmel]

Thanks.

Support tell me that they've not seen this before, so they're not sure what triggers it unless, as Alan suggests, it's a process BT switch to if your line is having stability problems. More if I get any.

Quite a few sites including Samknows and the  Plusnet and BT forums insist that it is initiated by the ISP at the customer's request.   

Apparently not though.

[Rik]

Not in this case, unless some kind of other request, eg to alter target margin or interleaving, triggers it.

[pctech]

I maybe wrong here but I thought assured rate was for business connections backed by SLAs?

[Rik]

Me and IDNet too. 

[pctech]

Unless has been said BT have had so many complaints they've altered the software to switch it to one of those profiles when it drops below a certain threshold so it drops no further.

[Rik]

Which we are unlikely ever to get BT to admit to. 

[pctech]

Alas no.

[kinmel]

Assured rates are used to provide guaranteed minimum speeds for certain uses, such as BTvision and are supposed to be on a per session basis.

IE, you ask your ISP to always supply an Assured Rate if port XXXX is in use and if the exchange is not congested they supply the bandwidth to meet the request.

Some people are reporting that BT are now using it to apply dynamic banding during the training period on lines displaying lots of errors.

[Rik]

Thanks for that, Alan.

[pctech]

Very interesting.

[Steve]

I think we are getting there,time to let support know

[Rik]

I have, they have asked BT.

[DaveH]

 Download speed achieved during the test was - 9115 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 2000-21000 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :10320 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 760 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 9000 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 14.09:21.45:64.47 (SBE:NBE:PBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.

The results of this test will vary depending on the way your ISP has decided to use these traffic classes.

BT Speedtest results at 0135 this morning (Thursday).

Note the absence of that weird little 'assured rate' message that popped up earlier on Weds..... No sign of it now!

[Rik]

It looks like Alan may be right, your sync has improved and the message has gone away.

[kinmel]

I have a new anomaly.

Just run a BTspeedtest and it states " IP Profile for your line is - 3839 Kbps" - I thought IP Profiles jumped in 500Kbps blocks.

Sometimes it's hard to keep up