2-4Mbps speed at peak-time

[snadge]

got email from Brian who says nothing can be done unless it drops below BT's acceptable speed which I already knew...

ah well - its up to my dad now

[Gary]

got email from Brian who says nothing can be done unless it drops below BT's acceptable speed which I already knew...

ah well - its up to my dad now

Just been reading your issues, I have to say it is not IDNet here, I get the same speed peak and off peak, when I was on O2 access I could not get over a meg in the evening, coming back to IDNet and its 6.5-6.7 24/7  apart from a few glitches when the routers were switched to give more capacity week or so agao and it was sorted fast, BT own the road and if the road is backed up you wont be going anywhere fast sadly. Hope things improve.

[snadge]

Just been reading your issues, I have to say it is not IDNet here, I get the same speed peak and off peak, when I was on O2 access I could not get over a meg in the evening, coming back to IDNet and its 6.5-6.7 24/7  apart from a few glitches when the routers were switched to give more capacity week or so agao and it was sorted fast, BT own the road and if the road is backed up you wont be going anywhere fast sadly. Hope things improve.

yeah,

he said latency was fine during peak slow downs to  -30ms - but he said web pages seemed slower during the peak slowdowns, IMO its probably not and he just thinks it is - as long as latency is fine and throughput isnt dropping to "choking" speeds then web-pages will be the same - especially cached web-pages

ive explained all this too him, see what he wants to do - up to him really

shame IDnet or BT couldnt change the VP...

[Rik]

IDNet have, in the past, got BT to move people to different VPs if they could prove it was a hot VP and if BT have one with more capacity.

[snadge]

IDNet have, in the past, got BT to move people to different VPs if they could prove it was a hot VP and if BT have one with more capacity.

i suppose that can only be done if you get crippling speeds lower than theyre "acceptable" range of 0.6Mb for a 7150 profile, am i right?

[Gary]

yeah,

he said latency was fine during peak slow downs to  -30ms - but he said web pages seemed slower during the peak slowdowns, IMO its probably not and he just thinks it is - as long as latency is fine and throughput isnt dropping to "choking" speeds then web-pages will be the same - especially cached web-pages

ive explained all this too him, see what he wants to do - up to him really

shame IDnet or BT couldnt change the VP...

My latency was about 30ms then BT did some work and even though I'm using wifi on my mac (5GHz) its about 15ms now they finished. but even with 30ms pages were not that slow.

[Rik]

i suppose that can only be done if you get crippling speeds lower than theyre "acceptable" range of 0.6Mb for a 7150 profile, am i right?

Essentially, yes, Snadge, and you'll have noticed how wide an acceptable range BT like to give themselves.

[Gary]

Essentially, yes, Snadge, and you'll have noticed how wide an acceptable range BT like to give themselves.

Basically apart from a disaster they are covered 

[snadge]

Basically apart from a disaster they are covered 

  yup

i think acceptable latency on interlaced lines is 40ms and below - this is considered to be "normal" - i get about 29ms on my line with o2 LLu and the interlacing depth is a whopping 160

[Rik]

BT, the heart of the nation's communications. Makes you think, doesn't it.

[snadge]

BT, the heart of the nation's communications. Makes you think, doesn't it.

yup - like my dad says "doesnt matter who you go with BT still have control of yer line..."

[Rik]

Exactly. 

[pctech]

Be are another BT in the making I reckon.

Once they have enough lines under their jurisdiction they will be reluctant to do much if anything just like BT.

[Rik]

It's what being British is all about, learning to form an orderly queue.

[pctech]

I'll be asking a lot of questions before I get FTTP installed as I'll be committing myself to a 12 month minimum term.

I have no problem about committing to Zen on a long term contract but its always the 'BT factor' that worries me.

[Rik]

It's almost as bad as the X Factor, isn't it.

[Glenn]

The Xfactor is far worse. You don't have to see Simon Cowell with Zen.

[Rik]

This is true.

[pctech]

I'll be glad to move my lines to IDNet as it'll be cheaper and from what has been said on here and elsewhere they sound all together more pleasant to deal with.

Rang Phone Coop the other day to start closing the account with them and the person sounded like they wanted to chuck themselves off a building.

[Rik]

Maz only does that on Friday afternoons.

[pctech]

Maz?

[Rik]

Miriam.

[pctech]

Ah, I knew of someone called Mario who always was referred to as Maz so I got a little confused.

[Rik]

Definitely a different person.

[pctech]

Definitely.

Noticed she hasn't posted lately, you think Q scared her off?