Well, the 'plusnet fibre router' is a very basic 'technicolor' thing. They are worth £5 on fleabay so I guess I shall not bother flogging it. I'll shove it in the loft for backup purposes...!

I don't believe it will even take DD_WRT, OpenWrt or Tomato firmware to make it more useful...

On another note, Maplin is now open in Stirling, and I was forced to purchase a weather station!!! Neat bit of kit - ideal for the geeks. Spitting out data onto the internet as we speak:

http://scratch.veletron.com/weather/

Nigel

Edited by veletron (Wed 27-Mar-13 13:35:49)

Installed nice and quick, gone from 3-4Mbit to 36Mbit down and from around 600kbit to 8.5Mbit up, so not the full rate (I am 1KM from cabinet), but a huge improvement.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2608239811.png

Nigel

In reply to a post by veletron:

Well, the 'plusnet fibre router' is a very basic 'technicolor' thing. They are worth £5 on fleabay so I guess I shall not bother flogging it. I'll shove it in the loft for backup purposes...!

I don't believe it will even take DD_WRT, OpenWrt or Tomato firmware to make it more useful...

Exactly what I did with mine, kept it for backup purposes.

On another note, Maplin is now open in Stirling, and I was forced to purchase a weather station!!! Neat bit of kit - ideal for the geeks. Spitting out data onto the internet as we speak:

http://scratch.veletron.com/weather/

Nigel

Interesting, which weather station did you get from Maplins, although I would be concerned about advertising my exact location.

Its the USB touch station. It goes not have GPS or owt - so you can specify your own lat/long. Mine points to a location a few streets away. I use the 3rd party 'cumulus' to copy the files to my net-accessible box.

Nigel

Hi

Anyone else suffering speed issues with plusnet on FTTC. My 36mbit fttc is failing to stream iplayer. did a speed test and it came out at 5.5mbit download, 8mbit upload. 5.5Mbit??!! I am thinking this is a lack of bandwidth at either plusnet or exchange contention?

Nigel

I had the same problems in the first couple of weeks, turned out to be my router. Plusnet did send Openreach out and all tested ok. Speeds are now stable, averaging 63 down and 16.5 up. I had a couple of slowdowns at night recently, go to the BT Speedtest and follow the instructions, even using the BT login it indicated very slow speeds which now seem to have rectified themselves. Plusnet were ok but the Openreach guy said Stirling and Bannockburn exchanges have plenty capacity on them so it might indicate a local issue. If the BT speedtest shows the same low speeds then Plusnet/Openreach will class that as a fault. I think anything less than 12Mb is classed as a fault, could be wrong though.

Hi

Aye, it fixed its self once I rebooted BT Modem. Back to normal now. Looks like the neighbours have discovered FTTC (Openreach van opposite this morning). Will be interesting to see how crosstalk effects the throughput. I gather its the norm to loose a wee bit. Working from home is (almost) pleasurable now!!

Nigel