My FTTC Diary

Thought id post this just incase anyone is at all interested
On o2 at the min, get just over 3mbit
See my BQM - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/4afcb8fc275...
After much debate to choose ADSL24 or Aquiss, i went with Aquiss, ordered on 26/2/2011, and BT cancled my order 2 days later, shortly aquiss were in touch adbvising that the new date would be 18th of this month.
THe rest tba....

Got connected today, the Openreach engineer showed me his tool which synched at 40000kb/10000kb exactly, nothing less
Changed over the faceplate, connected the modem to my router, and hey presto works fine
Had a few issues with speed since first connected but seems to be sorting itself out now, very happy with the speed, which is better than the 3mbit i was getting

In reply to a post by eddie1150:

Got connected today, the Openreach engineer showed me his tool which synched at 40000kb/10000kb exactly, nothing less
Changed over the faceplate, connected the modem to my router, and hey presto works fine
Had a few issues with speed since first connected but seems to be sorting itself out now, very happy with the speed, which is better than the 3mbit i was getting

His tool showed me 40000/10000 too The BT speedtest site says I can get 38717/10000 maximum and if I grab something from apple.com (For example) it comes in at 4.3MB/sec and Usenet speeds are obscene!

Indeed
Usenet is dragging down 4.35MB/s at the moment
It was the engineers 4th install on my cab, and the first he had done where it wasnt provuided by BT, which is why when he rang me he was confused that i hadnt received a "black box", in which case he brought a home hub out of the van and was going to install it for me! Until i advised him im not with BT haha!

ive also choose aquiss how long did you have to wait to get install date from them

Ordered 26th Feb.. Installed 2 weeks later, but the date was given 2 days after! (and only because i orederd on a sat)

Yeah I was the first none BT one the guy had done back in December...he wasn't really sure what to do, I just told him not to worry and it would all be OK

Theres something definitely wrong with mine,
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1201858786.png
Those are the speeds im getting at the min via HTTP, however via usenet i get the 4.35MB/s
Its strange

I don't worry about speed tests too much, the TBB one has always showed me way slower than I know I can actually download at, grab an iOS update from apple.com and see what that comes in at (Or something from MS).

You are still in the 10 day "training" period too don't forget.

Hi eddie,
Have look at what node you are on, and have a look http://noc.enta.net/21cn-interconnect-status/ to see the node status.
When you run a speedtest.net test, also try different servers, try the Aquiss speedtest straight after to compare speeds.
Make sure you also perform one using the offcial Bt speedtester. This can only be done once an hour though, and this will enable Aquiss to report any fault which falls below the allowed limits to BT.