Stats from pingtest.net are variable on any service and not an accurate respresentation of a connections performance. However, very useful as a guide.

Here's on on the fibre connection here -

http://www.pingtest.net/result/17015070.png

Ok my line is in, and working well, does anyone have any particular servers they want me to do ping testing on.

On the games I've tested average ping is about 15-20ms which is in line with my ADSL and virgin line.

The major plus so far has been the upload hosting a game server we had a much bigger and smother game than that hosted off the other connections.

What game are you getting 12-20 in drefsab?

EVE Online, Call Of Duty and Team fortress 2. If you have a specific game/server you want me to try for you let me know

Drefsab thanks and i've seen a few people with 24 pings in quakelive at night. Let's hope as the rollout procedes that ping times start to come down!

I have been messing about with the HG612 modem and the web interface can be re-enabled.

Here the line sync stats are available among much other information.

What firmware version is being shipped with recent Openreach/Huawei HG612 VDSL2 modems?

Ours also has a white label on the box which reads "The FTTC VDSL Modem in this carton has been upgraded to version HG612V100R001C01B027SP06".

It seems that the earlier firmware was HG612V100R001C01B027SP05. That firmware still had a web interface.

Has anyone gotten a newer firmware than ....SP06 which is dated 22 Feb 2010?

Screenshots from HG612 with web interface re-enabled:

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/57/87258193.jpg
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/8618/24542010.jpg
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/1981/73932623.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9716/83462337.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5825/86742583.jpg

Edited by asbokid (Thu 23-Jun-11 02:29:15)

oh go on then, how do you re enable the web interface please

Interesting that it is on 192.168.1.1, not 192.168.11.1

Also interesting that there is a second VLAN in-use on the WAN interface. We know that VLAN 101 needs to be enabled for PPPoE to connect, but I'd not come across VLAN 301 before.

A quick Google leads me to conclude this is used by BT for remote management/diagnostics of the modem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069

Edited by DougM (Thu 23-Jun-11 10:18:31)

It's not really a practical solution since it involves some soldering. I dumped the entire 64Mbit of flash memory, poked around and re-enabled the web interface. In fact the web interface (and sshd and tftpd) are always running but these have been firewalled from the local user. Various CRCs need recalculating for the bootloader and then the firmware is re-flashed.