In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

if its like SRA on adsl then you wont even see a redline, seamless means exactly that, no dropped packets at all.

Not the implementation I experienced. Of course that could just have been BE bad at configuring it but frankly it lived down to my expectations. I don't think anyone on the trial was very impressed.

Pipex used to use SRA on their business broadband back before it was Opal'd and it worked as advertised once I got myself a router that supported SRA.

When I was with UKOnline it worked perfectly but not all routers supported it. From memory I bought a Billion something-or-other to take advantage of it - still up in the loft somewhere I expect. SRA was pure magic - I've no idea why it wasn't more widely implemented unless your experiences are the reason.

Edited by kwikbreaks (Sat 21-Apr-12 12:33:55)

ukonline it was seamless, bare in mind the ukonline configruation had my sync speed changing often every 60 seconds, so I would notice packet loss happening every 60 seconds. Instead I could be downloading something, sync speed changes and all I see on my dumeter is a change of speed with no gap in throughput. The only times I had dropped packets was eg. when the noise burst started in the morning rush hour and the time between that and SRA reacting.

I cant comment too much on BE's SRA as their forums all closed shop but of the comments I read on here it seems they didnt configure it too well or the devices used didnt implement SRA too well. As by design it wont drop packets.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

... the ukonline configruation had my sync speed changing often every 60 seconds, so I would notice packet loss happening every 60 seconds

Should that be "... so without it I would have noticed ..."?