In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Kinda interesting that the download shows it is performing well but what IP Profile/cap is actually set on the PlusNet side, since it looks to be higher than 40 Meg.

Nothing confirmed yet (that I've seen) but Kelly did hint at something earlier in this thread:
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4338951-4...

(actually, the pn profile might be slightly above 40Mb.. I need Dave to confirm but he's away today)

My parents new router had come yesterday from Plusnet as it was Technicolor 582n wireless router with a red label to warns "DO NOT USE IT UNTIL BT ENGINEER HAS INSTALLED FIBRE".

Parents FTTC installation next week 10th July for 40/20 FTTC.

The problem is their telephone master socket cannot be removed as it very very difficult to take it off because it was well over 45 years old. With all painted all over screw and side panel.

Edited by adslmax (Fri 04-Jul-14 13:45:15)

If its damaged then Openreach might charge for a whole new master socket, or if lucky just replace it totally. Depends on mood, current rules and how people interact with the engineer.

Well if Openreach want to charged my parents for the whole new mastersocket, they will cancel the order because they both are on pension. As the old socket was already there when my parents moved in their house in early 1970. Why should my parents pay charges for the whole mastersocket?

I did check the mastersocket as it label "Telecom" and the master socket was good condition, no damage at all. It's just some previous owner stupid painted all over it with the screw as well. And side panel, if removed, the whole wallspaper could be ripped easy.

Edited by adslmax (Fri 04-Jul-14 14:17:44)

If it is a 1970's socket then nothing to worry about, they'll just fit a modern NTE5 for free then.

Note if its marked telecom then it is post 1984 at least, since was all GPO before then.

What with the offers, router and everything else this is something of a loss leader for everyone in terms of the effort expended, almost reads like the script from a Hollywood mini series.

My parents say that BT Engineer been round to their house in 1990's when fitted 2nd phone line upstair (where I use to live there and have my own computer with my own line) so, I think it should be ok for openreach to exchange master socket downstair in the hallway.

Edited by adslmax (Fri 04-Jul-14 14:43:21)

But if your machine is capable of displaying only half the 4K resolution then what is the point of using the bandwidth?

What "side panel"?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

What "side panel"?

Possibly where the extension exits, painted and/or wall papered over? Also perhaps the wall paper etc. may be damaged if the faceplate is removed once the painted over screws are located - hopefully they are slot head since philips head can be more difficult to unscrew if filled with paint

Edited by 4M2 (Fri 04-Jul-14 16:30:55)

Because the artifacts from the compression are less noticeable.

A stream does not include values for every pixel on the screen, if it did for HD it would need 1.6 Gbps to transmit. Compression tries to reduce the amount of data sent by grouping together similar pixel values.

If you don't follow watch a film in SD and when things like there is smoke/explosions/glitter bombs you will see the lack of definition. If they upped the bit rate of a SD feed to be the same as a HD feed even without increasing the resolution most people would be fooled into saying they are looking at a HD picture.