Thanks for spotting that RobertoS. I'm never usually that complacent, but would have been frothing if I couldn't get my ps3 going tonight!

I am now routered up and wondering if the BT engineer will ring and ask to come early. If he does, I'll dump the rich tea and crack open the peak freans.

Should I ask to see speeds and distance from cab, or is there anything else useful to know?

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Should I ask to see speeds and distance from cab, or is there anything else useful to know?

If they test using a JDSU then you'll be able to ask, when they did mine they phoned through to somewhere and got the results back as a text on the engineers mobile. It only gives the most basic of info, so I only know what my sync speed was.

I am quite near to my cab, approx 108M straight line but still under 200M following the probable cable run.

In reply to a post by TheHorseman:

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

Should I ask to see speeds and distance from cab, or is there anything else useful to know?

If they test using a JDSU then you'll be able to ask, when they did mine they phoned through to somewhere and got the results back as a text on the engineers mobile. It only gives the most basic of info, so I only know what my sync speed was.

I am quite near to my cab, approx 108M straight line but still under 200M following the probable cable run.

Same for me.

The engineer phoned through and the texted reply said 39 meg sync.

I am only 50m straight line to the cab and the engineer agreed the route would be less than 200m.

Bit of last minute panic about a router and the engineer hadn't installed any 3rd party devices, only HH3's, but said he wasn't going to leave me without sync. I could of told him that. . Bless him.

Initial speeds 6meg down then 10 up! Started to settle upwards at about 25-28meg, though still low for that distance and strangely returning 0 ms pings at the moment? I think that will change however.

[img]http://speedtest.aquiss.net/result/29277/[/img]

5 minutes after the engineer left, got a call from Martin at Aquiss to discuss the sync and speeds etc.

I'm glad I put my money where my mouth is.

Edited by mrnelster (Tue 19-Apr-11 13:23:03)

Glad to see all went ok.

I was getting speed tests around 25-29Mbps on the iMac in the computer room but a lappy plugged into the Airport Extreme gave 35Mbps. So the homeplugs were swapped for a long ethernet cable and all is now ok.

The homeplugs were connecting at 90-100Mbps in both directions but throughput seemed to max out at just under 30Mbps (200Mbps AVs too).

So what did you do about a router, or are you connected to the modem?

Picked one up from pcworld before the enginer arrived. Only jusyt in time as he was due between 1-6pm, but rang at 10-30 to come at 11 am!

Speeds picked up slightly now. Still not sure about the latency though?

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1259610235.png[/IMG]

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The homeplugs...snip.... (200Mbps AVs too).

What brand of homeplugs out of interest?

Aquiss tester.

[img]http://speedtest.aquiss.net/result/29294/[/img]

what option of aquiss did you take?

Assuming it's a business version due to the upload speed?

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In reply to a post by TheHorseman:

The homeplugs...snip.... (200Mbps AVs too).

What brand of homeplugs out of interest?

Devolo 200 AVs, though they are not the same generation, one is an earlier model than the other. They are both obsolete now I think. Both have the latest firmware too.