How stable is your connection?
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I'm with plusnet on a copper connection (no fibre round here).
Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
I have had one outage since moving to my current property (4.5yrs ago) - this was due to builders a few houses up severing the fibre line into the estate that feeds all the FTTP connections.
In fairness OpenReach were on site further up the estate and made the repair the same day to get everyone back connected.
Other than that its been perfect.
I did change from BT to TalkTalk when the lines were released for wider competition and did wonder if TalkTalk would be inferior/more problematic, but they've been just as good as BT, and their Eero equipment is excellent.
In fairness OpenReach were on site further up the estate and made the repair the same day to get everyone back connected.
Other than that its been perfect.
I did change from BT to TalkTalk when the lines were released for wider competition and did wonder if TalkTalk would be inferior/more problematic, but they've been just as good as BT, and their Eero equipment is excellent.
21TonyK said:
I'm with plusnet on a copper connection (no fibre round here).
Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
Have a look at creating a Broadcast Quality Monitor which will give you some idea of what your line is doing:Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitorin...
21TonyK said:
I'm with plusnet on a copper connection (no fibre round here).
Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
Also on PlusNet, having switched from TalkTalk a few months ago. Moving to PlusNet has doubled our speed, although we could have done that with TT had we stayed. . . Today has been up and down like the preverbial. Had BT out a few months ago who were adamant the connection to the house was pretty much as good as it could be with similar up to the master socket.
Since about 6pm solid as a rock again.
Bit of a PITA but more important as I and 21Jnr will be working from home more often and for him his stuff is all online.
If you'd asked me last week, I'd have said our connection was rock solid with never a problem. However, I saw OpenReach fiddling with the cabinet over the weekend, and sure enough our connection is now up and down like a w
e's knickers. I feel a call to PlusNet support coming on and OpenReach needing another fiddle with the cabinet.
We were on plus.net for a number of years and while reliability was good, upload speed was pants. 30/1.5 ish. I can't actually remember an outage in maybe 10 years apart from some degradation that ended up with me changing a line filter after a call with a tech person.
We are now luckily on fibre - 200/200 - with Vodafone. And we have had two 1x hour outages in the last 2 years but the speed is literally 200 times better than copper
We are now luckily on fibre - 200/200 - with Vodafone. And we have had two 1x hour outages in the last 2 years but the speed is literally 200 times better than copper
21TonyK - another one with Plusnet - I would say they are pretty good at managing any issues/chasing BT/Openreach if issue is on their side.
Have you checked what's available in your area ?
SamKnows DSL Checker
That will show your exchange/rough distance/what FTTC Cabinet you are connected to etc.
When I 1st got ADSL they used our telephone/Land Line - but having had ISDN for work / before DSL was as common (ISDN didn't run over shared telephone cables so had necessitated a new dedicated cable being laid from the Cabinet to our house) asked they move over to using that - and stability/speeds have been great ever since.
Edited to correct ADSL to ISDN change
Have you checked what's available in your area ?
SamKnows DSL Checker
That will show your exchange/rough distance/what FTTC Cabinet you are connected to etc.
When I 1st got ADSL they used our telephone/Land Line - but having had ISDN for work / before DSL was as common (ISDN didn't run over shared telephone cables so had necessitated a new dedicated cable being laid from the Cabinet to our house) asked they move over to using that - and stability/speeds have been great ever since.
Edited to correct ADSL to ISDN change
Edited by seyre1972 on Monday 8th August 17:48
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