Date : Fri, 07 May 2010 19:18:36 +0100
From : blip@... (John)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities
It's been mentioned that the 2wire business hub is a good piece of kit. Even
that though will vary with manufacturer's tolerances.
Sarian's (how interesting the spell check makes that Saurian's) seem to
stand out recently for not being very tolerant on ADSL2+ long lines/high
loss circuits.
Netgear seems a steady popular make, genuine Cisco can be fussy if you start
configuring static WAN addresses (our services allocate a static via DHCP)
or your IOS level is not up to date (good for int. faults that one). Siemens
seem to be downright awkward sometimes on ADSL2+ (a lot of these seem to be
used for cameras).
Its worth mentioning that BT customers can use speedtester.bt.com which
gives line speed and throughput (and stores the result on BT servers) - I'm
probably telling you to suck eggs, but keep your internet traffic to a
minimum and don't test over a VPN.
I can't test residential services but if you have a BT business BB service I
may be able to.
I'm not convinced the BT Wholesale residential engineering approach is
radically different to business (although I don't work for them), so if you
do have problems, persevere. Unless you are genuinely in a difficult area
(radio interference was mentioned) or it would be -very- expensive to serve
you, you should get it fixed. As someone who works on managed services we
have to be tenacious sometimes, but the vast majority of our tickets are
closed to the customers' satisfaction with 24hrs.
The really horrible faults seem to be a reasonably even mix of end user
(note includes third party) and internal issues.
Regards
John
These are my personal opinions, and I do not speak for any company or
organisation.
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Sent: 07 May 2010 17:43
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Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] [OT] ADSL capabilities
In article <9B1575892F970F4DA210169A77B5A61DB826@...
consultants.co.uk>, Andrew Hancock <andrew.hancock@...
consultants.co.uk> writes
>My line is quiet as a mouse!
>
>Even the BT Engineer was impressed!
It's probably OK then. Try the trick with the radio that others have
suggested. Switch off as much as you can in the house, especially
central heating thermostats, fridges, freezers, anything that has an
electric motor. Any improvement?
I do recommend, though, that you borrow and try another router. Some
are better at dealing with long lines than others.
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