Packet loss today. Anyone else?

Technical Ben · May 12, 2011, 14:02:13

With more bandwidth being ordered, is FTTC too fast for the current bandwidth provisions or costs?
For example, we can all buy porches if they were made for £45 a month. But could we afford the petrol?
So if FTTC only costs £45 a month (or whatever the price) can we afford the subsequent increase in bandwidth usage?

I'm fine with it costing more, just wondering if it's an indication the prices might go up.

pctech · May 12, 2011, 15:06:21

As FTTC becomes more widely deployed and people take it up the wholesale price (that BTW charges per line) should come down as it did with ADSL.

At some point it will also go 'wires only' meaning no engineer visit to the end user's premises will be required which will also bring the costs down.

Both of these should mean the costs come down.

I suspect that IDNet have requested an upgrade to the existing hostlinks at present which may cost them a bit more, if however they have to order more physical links the price may go up slightly in the short term but should come down as more customers are added.

Simon_idnet · May 12, 2011, 15:36:57

Quote from: Glenn on May 12, 2011, 09:06:20
Is the increased bandwidth still on track for the next few days, Simon?

Hi Glenn

The extra bandwidth is already online and active and our monitoring has shown no congestion on the BT links into us since then.
Simon

Technical Ben · May 12, 2011, 21:46:32

So the cost is scaling nicely Pctech. Good to know.

esh · May 16, 2011, 10:06:57

I've noticed that I'm able to sustain a fixed 7.02 Mbps even directly on midnight now. I don't know if that was IDNet's tweaking or not, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to do that a couple months ago.

netn00b · May 17, 2011, 07:58:22

had major trouble last night and this morning with pages not loading etc

some skype messages i just wrote say not delieverd yet which i've never seen.

wife was moaning like nothing last night at the slowness and problems whilst she was trying to do something.

i hope its resolved today.

Glenn · May 17, 2011, 08:40:42

What area are you, close to Chester?

netn00b · May 17, 2011, 13:34:10

Quote from: Glenn lcink=topic=25625.msg614279#msg614279 date=1305618042
What area are you, close to Chester?

Devon

Simon_idnet · May 17, 2011, 15:11:03

If you've already tried rebooting your router I'd suggest trying a new filter as a faulty filter can produce packet loss.