Yeah, 6ms to BBC.co.uk in my case. I kind've mentioned that already though. Not that anyone noticed/cared. Might save some money too though I guess the OP is a little more than a little jaded with previous copper line broadband provision.

Perhaps if he'd post his router stats then people who make suggestions might get a better picture of the actual physical problem with his line quality and then know when to shut up with the suggestions that don't involve fibre?

They're doing well to have multiple fingers up there aren't they?

Sky's poor exchange equipment? Were you on LLU? If not you would of been using BTs equipment. Sky has nothing wrong with their equipment in the exchange, I've seen it myself and it is the same as any other LLU.

We can help advise, as can others, but at least we don't work for an ISP/Reseller.

Tsk. It doesn't worry me either way, but people shouldn't be so blinkered.

I know exactly what the problem is. I am 6km from the exchange!

So fast path isn't really an option.

My point is BT's behaviour is unjustifiable. That's why I joined these forums. And I learnt that they should never have promised me a better connection and l would have stayed on Sky's cheaper LLU product.

As I said Sky were fantastically helpful. They just coudnt do the impossible.

BT pretended they could.

Having come from UKOnline (now closed) to be, there was talk/rumours on the UKO forum here about sky getting rid of staff who swapped peoples lines to fastpath or if it was swapped to fastpath it was soon swapped back to interleaved, blatantly obvious sky don't want people on it.

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

I know exactly what the problem is. I am 6km from the exchange!

So fast path isn't really an option.

My point is BT's behaviour is unjustifiable. That's why I joined these forums. And I learnt that they should never have promised me a better connection and l would have stayed on Sky's cheaper LLU product.

As I said Sky were fantastically helpful. They just coudnt do the impossible.

BT pretended they could.

Fast path is an option no matter how long the line is. All interleaving does is protect you from noise.

What you should have done is to ask Sky to put you on a gaming profile.

Fast path is an option no matter how long the line is. All interleaving does is protect you from noise.

What you should have done is to ask Sky to put you on a gaming profile.

Long lines are bound to be noisy. Interleaving has error correction and redundancy to counter that. This inevitably slows down the line.

Fast path has neither. Interleaving is there to help long noisy lines that cannot sustain fast path.

Sky did put me on a gaming profile to no avail. BT tried fast path a d the obvious delays became even more ridiculous. One minute 65ms, 1000ms the next.
Had to swap back to interleaved.

Its just what long lines can do. Thats the whole point of FTTC.