I was first at 78Mb at plusnet ip profile last month but later it changed itself to 77.4Mb to match BT IP profile at 77.42Mb.

77.42Mb is abit strange from sync rate at 79999k (I agree it should be 77.44Mb)

I just had email alert of BTW Checker had changed again below:

Changed:
- FTTC Range A (Clean) 80 79.9 20 19.9 -- Available
- FTTC Range B (Impacted) 80 71.3 20 17.9 -- Available
... into:
+ FTTC Range A (Clean) 80 77 20 19.9 -- Available
+ FTTC Range B (Impacted) 80 67.3 20 17.9 -- Available

Do you get higher speeds when your plusnet ip profile was set to 78mbps than you do now , or has the throughput speed not changed since your service started ?

In reply to a post by tommy45:

Do you get higher speeds when your plusnet ip profile was set to 78mbps than you do now , or has the throughput speed not changed since your service started ?

It always at 72Mb since it first installed of service. Engineer say I should be getting around 75Mb max out of exchange IP capped at 77Mb. I believe Plusnet capped my throughput speed of 5Mb less.

Edited by adslmax (Sat 22-Mar-14 14:14:39)

I just spoken to the tech support at Plusnet and they push my PN IP Profile at 78Mb and I am now getting 2Meg extra of throughput speed on 74Meg instead of 72Meg on BTw speed throughput. Proof here below :

I hope my PN IP Profile staying at 78Mb. Strange BTw IP profile also increase from 77.42Mb to 77.44Mb now after Plusnet adjusted PN IP from 77.4Mb to 78Mb. That's rather weirdo. But BT IP does matched my sync rate correct at 79999K now.

BTw speedtest showed IP of 77.44Mb but pleased with throughput of 74Meg now.
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?action=dla...

Edited by adslmax (Sat 22-Mar-14 16:05:02)

That must be a relief

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

That must be a relief

Yes. I hate the PN IP Profile sometimes is wrong and didn't push BTw profile.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Small percentage difference and some people are never happy!

Remember that this small percentage difference can be added to another difference. I was on Entanet and used to get up to 60Mbits down. When this dropped to 35 I left them as basically I was getting the "up to" argument and being told that they were unable to do anything about it.

With Plusnet I am getting 50Mbit down, but admittedly the up speed HAS increased considerably. After several calls and an engineer visit it has been put down to a bad bit of wire somewhere between the cabinet and myself. The engineer when it was first connected told me after his test that I ought to get full speed. 450M from cabinet.

My Plusnet Profile says

Estimated line speed:
59Mb (Download speed could vary depending on line conditions. Estimates are the maximum speeds that your phone line can support. These speeds are dependent on the package you choose.) - Checked on 2013-12-31 12:55:36
Current line speed:
51.2 Mb

Should I believe the Engineer, What I know it achieved in the past (06/2012), the estimated speed or my actual connection speed.

The system we have of Openreach/BT and ISPs means that it very easy for the blame to be placed else where. The way our speeds are advertised does not help, but there has been recent comment I think from OFCOM suggesting that if they say an estimate of 59 then it should be very close to what you actually get.

Having said all that I am currently very please with my connection and service, I just know it could be better.

@ philippercival - I start to worrying now because last month BT estimated was 80/20, then changed to 79.9/19, then changed again to 77/19 and if BT kept doing this with more speed degradation in future then I will complaint to OFCOM, Watchdog because BT are misleading us with the incorrect speed advertised as I expected estimated of 79.9/19 not 77/19. I will be annoying if it come down to 57/16 on the BT Checker Availabiltiy. I hate the worse thing is signed 18 months contract with 79.9/19 then 6 months later it might be 57/16 etc. Do u think it fair? I think NOT!

It's rather seem unfair. But, likewise that BT for us.

Edited by adslmax (Sat 22-Mar-14 19:22:04)

Having read through most of this thread I'll just add my own experience of Plusnet this last 3 months having come from cable.

I have a PN linespeed of 77.4 from memory the BT profile was the same when I checked it. My cabinet is physically 300 metes away on the same side of the road but the pole is the other side so I'd guess at 350m+ line length. My SamKnows shows maximums of 73/19 but that is the daily average. There are some days where it is a bit down on that but never as far down as the maximum I saw on my 60Mbps cable. I suffered high levels of congestion on cable with some days showing a daily average down in the low 30s. Ironically there was evidence of improvement in the cable congestion in the final week befor my switch to FTC was completed.

I don't understand how the PN shaping/QoS gets implemented or if indeed it does result in a marginally slower top rate than it would have with none but I will say that I can have a heavy multithread HTTP (I don't use NNTP or P2P) download running and still browse without noticing any difference from when there is no download running.

I can't compare with BT who are more expensive and bundle services I have no interest in such as BT Sport but my connection now is far far superior to what I was getting on cable.

And again in English please?