by SamKnows, includes a latency figure ... http://www.broadbandperformance.co.uk/ As was promoted by BBC Watchdog during their usually flawed investigations, but seems a clear tool nonetheless and is free of adverts and other nonsense. -- Adrian C

I've just moved to phonecoop FTTC broadband. I've just done a whois on the fixed IP address I get is it appears to be owned by TalkTalk. I've done the same for things like IP address at other end of PPPoE connection and first router in traceroutes and stuff and it's all TalkTalk. Anybody know which which bits of the talktalk infastructure they are using? I suspose it's some sort of wholesale...

My son and I both felt recently that "the internet seemed a bit slow". I finally took a harder look at things just now and we seem to be getting rather more packet loss than seems reasonable, typical is this sort of ping response:- chris$ ping cheddar.halon.org.uk PING cheddar.halon.org.uk (217.10.144.130) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from cheddar.halon.org.uk (217.10.144.130):...

On Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:58:23 UTC, Vir Campestris wrote: On 28/12/2017 17:58, R. Mark Clayton wrote: On Thursday, 28 December 2017 11:46:33 UTC, Vir Campestris wrote: On 27/12/2017 13:19, R. Mark Clayton wrote: So what would a residential subscriber use FTTH/P for that they can't get / do with FTTC at 50 - 100Mbps? Do tell. Live at the wrong end of a long thin...

Is this company the one run by the school brat? From a friend: "I've just spent the past few hours setting up a VPN server to find I can't do it because Hyperoptic has an IP per 8 houses meaning effectively a dual NAT. This is madness!"

Remotely operated cabinets needed if Internet is a Right -------------------------------------------------------- BT (British Telecum) have been told to fsck off in no uncertain terms when it comes to promising internet for everyone when it can't even deliver fibre services at $14 per 1gbit fibre modem and connect it up to the UK fibre infrastructure, and instead they spend 20x the money...

In article , (7) wrote: 800,000 homes already fitted with this ultra cheap fibre technology by B4RN, A cooperative Hyperoptic,

No copper infrastructure in UK so why is BT (British Telecum) Openroach installing 10mbit copper? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no physical infrastructure in UK for copper 10mbit services. But BT (British Telecum) shiite investors, Pusnet, Openroach, Ski, Offcum et al, all valued share holders in BT shiite for investor...

I received a call from an Indian gentleman claiming to be from "BT" and saying that there had been a problem at the exchange which caused some damage to the line supplying my internet service. He said they needed to work on it and asked me to turn off my router. Obviously nonsense since I have FTTC so the "line supplying my internet service" only goes as far as the cabinet up the road, but I...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42367202 "The UK's digital divide has narrowed but more than one million homes and offices still struggle to get good broadband, says an Ofcom report." Tell me about it :-(

BT (British Telecum) have the thickiest investors ------------------------------------------------- Japan has 97% full fibre. UK has 3% full fibre with symmetric 1 gbit - about 800,000 homes. A lot of it is rural. Something BT and Openroach don't know how to cable up with fibre. All of this fibre installed by other companies like B4RN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067 And they got a better speed over 2m than I get via copper over 6 miles.

Hi, I'm moving to FTTC and my new ISP has sent me a Technicolor TG588v v2 router. I'm a bit disappointed with it, and was wondering what people might recommend as a reasonably priced alternative. My old ADSL2 router, while pretty cheap (EdiMAX AR-7084A) and more configurable, i.e. was more flexible at port forwarding rules, and you had controls to restrict from where you could admin the...

We've had Plusnet FTTC for over a year now and whilst things seem to stream okay, general web browsing has always progressed in fits and starts. It never seemed much (if any) better than when we had an ADSL connection. I read elsewhere about using Google's DNS servers so I thought I'd have a go at changing mine. Unfortunately my Technicolour router's DNS settings seem uneditable but from...

As I posted in an earlier post, out ADSL connection had been experiencing outages every few hours and sometimes very low speeds, so I've been in touch with Plusnet for nearly a month now trying to find the cause. They said there was a rather high noise level on the line. Calling out OpenReach to check the line might find that there was a physical cause, but if it was in our own house wiring...

On 10/12/17 23:06, Paul Cummins wrote: The results are usually better than 0.01db loss. Not possible... you cannot measure luminosity loss in dB. Of course you can. You can measure anything that is a dimensionless ratio in dB and dB are the preferred unit in this case. However, according to http://www.thefoa.org/tech/lossbudg.htm a more realistic splice loss is 0.3 dB, which is 30...

Just had e-mail notification of BT's new year price increase for broadband/line rental and call packages. £2 per month increase on broadband/line rental to £21.99/month. Stiil not a bad deal tho'.

On Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:06:48 UTC, Paul Cummins wrote: In article , (7) wrote: The results are usually better than 0.01db loss. Not possible... you cannot measure luminosity loss in dB. Well I suppose you could measure it in magnitude, but dB seems sensible to me.

On the BBC News website, the hotel seems to want BT or other broadband users to subsidise his hotel. I don't see any mention of other broadband suppliers rushing to connect them for a lower price, it is always BT that gets blamed. Perhaps Mr. 7 can connect them via fibre.

I've been offered an interesting deal to move to fibre from ADSL - essentially it's cheaper than I'm paying now. I currently have a TP-link archer router, which I'd like to keep. I realise the router part is incompatible with VDSL, but can I piggyback the TP-link onto the plusnet VDSL router and keep using it?