FTTC now available, want to move from SKY, few questions....

[Glenn]

 

[Rik]

Enjoy.

[Simon]

[Anton]

Very Happy!!

Isn't it bliss - Enjoy!

;-)

[shorn]

It is nice, although I seem to be getting somewhat erratic speeds, one minute its 32 down, just a minute ago it was 25. I assume that it will be like this for the first week. I must admit I'm a tad disappointed that I'm not getting the 39 that the engineers device was connecting at!

Also, my iphone4 doesnt seem to be playing nice with it. When running Speedtest on the iphone (via the app) im getting 0.5mb download? Anyone else having an issue with the iPhone4?

[.Griff.]

Shorn it's worth creating a TBB quality monitor here - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping

That will give you an ongoing record of latency and packet loss and comes in handy to show if you've changed IP Profile in the middle of the night.

[Anton]

Also, my iphone4 doesnt seem to be playing nice with it. When running Speedtest on the iphone (via the app) im getting 0.5mb download? Anyone else having an issue with the iPhone4?

If there's one thing I've found it's that all speedtest tools on the iphone are just garbage, regardless of connection.

[shorn]

Ok, I've set up the TBB monitor, will see how that goes. iPhone speed is definitely not benefitting. Youtube videos are still incredibly slow. Especially compared to the way they stream on the mac.

Running the speedtest on the mac again seems to be coming through at about 25 down pretty consistently. Id be a tiny bit miffed if thats what it stays at, especially as the engineer said the lowest he'd connected anyone up at was 33mb. Again I might be jumping the gun here and it may settle down. Its just that there is still a bit difference between 25 and 35 down!

[.Griff.]

What results do you get from the BT Speedtest?

http://speedtester.bt.com/

[shorn]

Will post speedtester results shortly, tried a minute ago but it failed.

heres the TBB results

[Lance]

Also what router are you using? Some 10/100mb routers have been shown to not have the required performance. Might be worth setting up a pppoe connection up straight from computer to modem.

[Anton]

Again I might be jumping the gun here and it may settle down. Its just that there is still a bit difference between 25 and 35 down!

Shorn, Chill - give it 2 weeks to stabilise.

Oh and there's a hell of a lot of difference between 1.5 and 25 down ;-)

[shorn]

Ok finally got the BT Speedtester to work...

Not great...

[shorn]

I'm using the Apple Airport Extreme, configured pppoe connection. I think I have just found out that my Vodafone Sure signal will not now work as it does play with pppoe! bummer!

Shorn, Chill - give it 2 weeks to stabilise.

Oh and there's a hell of a lot of difference between 1.5 and 25 down ;-)

I know, I know, normally I'm quite relaxed about these things but seeing these speeds has just got me excited!!

[shorn]

And this doesnt address the iPhone issue im having. Speed is very poor with the phone at the moment!

[pctech]

Is that via Wi-FI or 3G shorn?

[shorn]

Iphone issue is over Wifi. Although just ran a different speed test app and it says 14down and 0.1Up !?!?

[Anton]

Iphone issue is over Wifi. Although just ran a different speed test app and it says 14down and 0.1Up !?!?

Don't forget the iPhone is 802.11g and in the real world that's not going to be enough to test a 40mbps pipe!

[shorn]

I thought the Iphone4 was 802.11n but only on the 2.4g band?

[Steve]

The IPhone app may not understand FTTC???

[Anton]

I thought the Iphone4 was 802.11n but only on the 2.4g band?

Oops, yes you're right!

Maybe try a different channel in 2.4?

It may be congested and if everything else is in the 5Mhz band wouldn't be effected?

[Simon_idnet]

If you've got any wireless-'g' devices active on the network then the Airport has to fall back from 'n' to 'g'.

[Anton]

If you've got any wireless-'g' devices active on the network then the Airport has to fall back from 'n' to 'g'.

Shorn's airport is a dual band simultaneously one. It runs two SSIDs one in each pool of spectrum. Any apple hardware <4 years old will be 802.11n capable, so it's likely that his iPhone is the only device on the 2.4 band, notwithstanding PSPs, printers or other things.

[shorn]

Yep the phone is the only one on 2.4, the iMac and the ATV both connect via 5Ghz.
I have a feeling that the apps may just not been that good at reading the speed. I've just tried downloading an app and its seemed pretty quick to install. Will monitor!

[shorn]

Just did another speedtest..



Presumably the drop in speed is going to be down to the time of day.