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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 27, 2016 10:17:11 GMT
We have poor -middling broadband here down a country road.
Fibre to cabinet
Is it coincidence or when we have crawling speeds and I turn the Fibre box and router off for a while it comes back good ?
This worked yesterday after a couple of hours and today after about 20 minutes
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Post by MartinT on Jul 27, 2016 10:40:46 GMT
It's quite likely you have water on a terminal or corrosion somewhere along the line. What you need is for it to go really bad and then call out BT. What is voice quality like on the same line?
I've become used to being within spitting distance of the FTTC cabinet. I get a consistent 70Mbps on Infinity. That's going out the window when I move house to a rural location outside a village where it looks like slow broadband is going to be the best we can hope for.
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Post by pre65 on Jul 27, 2016 11:09:40 GMT
when I move house to a rural location outside a village where it looks like slow broadband is going to be the best we can hope for. 
I'm getting about 6.5 MBPS here. The next village is on "high speed" broadband (about 1.25 miles away) but we are not due for at least another year.  |
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Post by zippy on Jul 27, 2016 11:53:48 GMT
We too are pretty rural and only got fibre available last year after a few years of the local villages pestering BT.
To my surprise:
1. the speed on BT is about 30-35 Mb/sec, much higher than I expected and considerable above my old 2 Mb/sec.
2. the monthly cost for some strange reason worked out slightly less than before.
I also noted that 30 Mbps is more than enough to let me run a PC plus laptop and a couple of tablets simultaneously (probably as long as they're not all playing HD video, but I've never tried that) so I can't imagine why I might want more.
My cabinet is about 200 yards away.
I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say 'turn the fibre box .. off' as I don't have a box of any sort other than the router - maybe that's a non-BT thing.
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Post by Clive on Jul 27, 2016 12:38:52 GMT
I have fibre broadband with copper to the house. After a week I get 1.5Mb instead of 16Mb. I used to restart the router to fix it...I've since found that unplugging the phone wire and reconnecting is all that's needed. It seems like the router and exchange are loosing sync in some way. Frustrating.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2016 12:54:03 GMT
I take it for granted that connections are tripe, pretty much like any modern technology imho, so it does not really bother me.  |
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Post by Stratmangler on Jul 27, 2016 14:03:18 GMT
I have fibre broadband with copper to the house. After a week I get 1.5Mb instead of 16Mb. I used to restart the router to fix it...I've since found that unplugging the phone wire and reconnecting is all that's needed. It seems like the router and exchange are loosing sync in some way. Frustrating. Do you have telephone extensions wired in the house? Is your router connected to your master socket? Is your master socket a BT badged one, or does it have Openreach on it? Do you have a filtered faceplate or do you have the dongle filters all over the place? |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 27, 2016 17:17:49 GMT
By the way.
I disentangled all the cables as previously covered.
We had an external junction box replaced last time the phone and BB were out
Phone line is currently fine. No noise at all.
I;ll try unplugging the phone as well next time
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Post by Clive on Jul 27, 2016 17:45:45 GMT
I have fibre broadband with copper to the house. After a week I get 1.5Mb instead of 16Mb. I used to restart the router to fix it...I've since found that unplugging the phone wire and reconnecting is all that's needed. It seems like the router and exchange are loosing sync in some way. Frustrating. Do you have telephone extensions wired in the house? Is your router connected to your master socket? Is your master socket a BT badged one, or does it have Openreach on it? Do you have a filtered faceplate or do you have the dongle filters all over the place? First of all I have to say the problem I'm expereinecing is new, it's been over the last few weeks. All had been fine for about a year. Do you have telephone extensions wired in the house? No - I've removed all extensions Is your router connected to your master socket? Yes Is your master socket a BT badged one, or does it have Openreach on it? Badged BT, it has a capacitor in it but is not the latest larger type of line socket Do you have a filtered faceplate or do you have the dongle filters all over the place? I have a dongle filter, just on this socket as it's the only socket. Read more: theaudiostandard.net/thread/2457/broadband-speeds-routers#ixzz4FdFnr5bB |
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Post by Stratmangler on Jul 27, 2016 18:51:06 GMT
Clive
I know the socket type you've mentioned, and it's not ideal.
The recent Openreach NTE5 sockets have built in RF filtering, and the filtering is very effective.
Your current socket has no RF filtering.
RF issues can cause broadband speeds to slow down.
Add a filtered faceplate ('cause the filter dongles aren't the greatest) and things should improve further.
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Post by Clive on Jul 27, 2016 19:11:30 GMT
Thanks, I'll give it a go.
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Post by markgrant on Jul 28, 2016 17:14:39 GMT
I take it for granted that connections are tripe, pretty much like any modern technology imho, so it does not really bother me. Real Fibre to the premises is perfect and its modern technology   |
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Post by pre65 on Jul 29, 2016 10:34:21 GMT
I take it for granted that connections are tripe, pretty much like any modern technology imho, so it does not really bother me.
I'd certainly not want to go back to black/white televisions, dial up internet connections, or film cameras, to name but three. |
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Post by zippy on Jul 29, 2016 11:47:03 GMT
I take it for granted that connections are tripe, pretty much like any modern technology imho, so it does not really bother me. Real Fibre to the premises is perfect and its modern technology I'm intruiged as to why anyone should want 300 Mbps, when (see my note above) I get everything I want from a tenth of that ! (OK maybe in an office environment where you have loads of PC's etc running at the same time) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 12:09:22 GMT
I take it for granted that connections are tripe, pretty much like any modern technology imho, so it does not really bother me.
I'd certainly not want to go back to black/white televisions, dial up internet connections, or film cameras, to name but three. I don't believe anything Modern Technology wise is truly all about Technology, it's about convenience & Money imho. All the Modern Technology i have ever used i have been dissapointed with & well reliability aint that great is it.. Maybe im old fashioned. I would certainly not run my stereo via Tech means. |
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Post by pre65 on Jul 29, 2016 12:27:58 GMT
Looks like we might need a new topic to discuss this further.
Just out of interest, what car do you drive ?
If you say Morris Minor I will be impressed.
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 29, 2016 13:16:57 GMT
Brace yerself then!
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Post by Stratmangler on Jul 29, 2016 13:17:41 GMT
Real Fibre to the premises is perfect and its modern technology Willy waver   |
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 29, 2016 13:26:39 GMT
It's all down to those white phone boxes, you know!
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 29, 2016 16:23:39 GMT
Today I have 3.47 Down, .84 up and 19ms ping
This is a good day
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