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BT Broadband Update

Category: Misc
#Network #BT #Broadband

Update: 29/10/2014

Same person from @BTCare. Sorry to hear still slower than before. I checked speed while on the call (~4.4mps down). She wanted to check something, called back 10mins later with:

Test show that there's a mismatch on the supplier side. I'll escalate, normally 48hrs turnaround, but I'll check tomorrow

So, we wait some more.

Update: 24/10/2014

Lovely engineer. Line is okay (but replaced master socket to one with integrated filter). Cabinet port is also okay, feed from DSLAM in fibre cabinet is gving rated 40Mbps but this falls to 4-ish by the time it reaches us. Can't check the fibre cabinet though ("that's another bit of BT, BT wholesale").

Now need to wait 10 days for the line to stabalise. Then, assuming no change, will need to choose whether to go back to ADSL or possibly try the 80Mbps feed from the DSLAM because "that might give you *-ish by the time it reaches you".

Update: 16/10/2014

A nice person from @BTCare called. They predicted 9Mbps, so will send an engineer to check.

Updated: 06/10/2014 08:08:57

Original: 20141003 07:35:40

BT are upgrading the broadband today (Friday). Or at least they've scheduled an engineer to. Let's use their tools for data gathering: BT wholesale speed test

Data

| Test | Download
(Mbps) | Upload
(Mbps) | Latency
(ms) | When | | :-----| --------------------:|----------------:|--------------:| :——: | | Before | | | | | | Dirty studio | 6.02 | 0.31 | 30.38 | Friday Day | | | 5.98 | 0.67 | 36.25 | | | | 6.08 | 0.77 | 44.38 | | | Dirty HH4 | 6.24 | 0.72 | 38.5 | | | | 6.02 | 0.71 | 35.25 | | | | 6.18 | 0.69 | 34.63 | | | Clean HH4 | 6.01 | 0.60 | 0.0 | | | | 6.24 | 0.72 | 39.0 | | | | 6.20 | 0.74 | 48.75 | | | After (BT faster broadband upgrade) | | | | | | Dirty HH5 | 4.31 | 0.95 | 53.13 | Friday | | | 4.47 | 1.03 | 117.25 | Saturday | | | 4.23 | 1.05 | 92.25 | Monday 6am | | Clean HH5 | 4.22 | 0.56 | 60.88 | Monday 9am | | | 4.24 | 0.55 | 45.25 | | | | 4.24 | 0.64 | 36.63 | |

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