alternative methods of getting faster internet

I'm currently with sky and can only get 2mb and with no sign of bt upgrading cabinet for a while what other methods of getting faster speeds are open to me. Main usage is streaming and gaming so while wife is on netflix I lag like crazy gaming online.

Which exchange and cabinet?

In reply to a post by project_x_uk:

I'm currently with sky and can only get 2mb and with no sign of bt upgrading cabinet for a while what other methods of getting faster speeds are open to me. Main usage is streaming and gaming so while wife is on netflix I lag like crazy gaming online.

Move house?

Change Wife?

Damit for got to put that in. It comes under oswestry exchange but cabinet is gobowen no 44

You could get a 2nd line installed.

Do you have any line stats from your router?

Broadband Link. Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2047 kbps 605 kbps
Line Attenuation 66.5 dB 39.4 dB
Noise Margin 3.1 dB 13.13 dB

Your downstream is going as fast as it can but Sky should be able to double your upstream.

You could consider a router that has QOS which should allow you to reduce the lag - or a move to Plusnet who offer traffic management to do the same thing.

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Your downstream is going as fast as it can but Sky should be able to double your upstream.

I think Sky's line profile system locks the upstream profile to the downstream profile, so unfortunately it's quite possible the upstream speed can not be made to go faster irrespective of available upstream noise margin.

I guess Sky employed the prima-donnas from Easynet.

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I guess Sky employed the prima-donnas from Easynet.

UK Online never had these restrictive line profiles, I can only assume Easynet were tasked by Sky to provide a system with restrictive line profiles in order to minimise support costs.

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UK Online never had these restrictive line profiles, I can only assume Easynet were tasked by Sky to provide a system with restrictive line profiles in order to minimise support costs.

Same decision as forcing only the Sky router. Reduce costs of support.

Also can't use the term easynet anymore, as Sky sold the brand and some people off again but kept the network and engineers. I suspect the original easynet network has been greatly redesigned/expanded massively to support FTTC.

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Also can't use the term easynet anymore, as Sky sold the brand and some people off again but kept the network and engineers.

Yep. I was referring more to 2006 when Sky bought Easynet and tasked them to implement Sky Broadband, with differing design principles to Easynet's existing UK Online product, tailored to the mass market.

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Yep. I was referring more to 2006 when Sky bought Easynet and tasked them to implement Sky Broadband, with differing design principles to Easynet's existing UK Online product, tailored to the mass market.

Ok Yes; Easynet had a lot of business offerings. I used to work with a company that has a 2meg circuit from Easynet. Cost a kings ransom in the late 1990s.

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In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I guess Sky employed the prima-donnas from Easynet.

UK Online never had these restrictive line profiles, I can only assume Easynet were tasked by Sky to provide a system with restrictive line profiles in order to minimise support costs.

In the recent brouhaha over patents between BT and Assia, didn't Assia say that Sky used their variant of DLM - IIRC DSL Expresse?

Get your community to fund the cab

You may get slightly faster uploads asking for a manual re-profile to a 3/7 DB 4096/800 INP0/1 but there is a chance reliability will not be as good, oh and hope and pray they don't hit Stabalize on the DLM.

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Damit for got to put that in. It comes under oswestry exchange but cabinet is gobowen no 44

I am assuming this is your postcode shown below (if not PM me your postcode and I will take a look):

Exchange Name: Oswestry
Exchange Code: WNOSW

Cabinet: 26
Fibre Phase: Phase 10a 2013
Fibre Information: FTTC Available from 19th May 2013
Result Count: 20

Cabinet: 44
Fibre Phase: None
Fibre Information: None
Result Count: 1

[SY11 3JX]
� Has 20 result(s) connected to Cabinet 26 with FTTC with approximate speeds around the following:
� Range A: 54.0 -> 80.0 (downstream) 16.5 -> 20.0 (upstream)
� Range B: 35.1 -> 74.8 (downstream) 10.7 -> 20.0 (upstream)

� Has 1 result(s) connected to Cabinet 44 with ADSLx with approximate speeds around the following:
� ADSLx (Worst): Up to 1.0 (downstream rate) -- (upsrteam rate) 1.0 to 3.5 (downstream range)
� ADSLx (Best): Up to 1.0 (downstream rate) -- (upsrteam rate) 1.0 to 3.5 (downstream range)

Please note that these speeds are using BT's DSL Checker and uses the lowest and highest values for that postcode and cabinet.
� Had at least 1 issue retrieving information from the BT DSL Checker.

If so sadly it seems that your the only one on that postcode connected to PCP Cabinet 44, everyone else is using cabinet 26 (with FTTC), also seems that PCP Cabinet 44 is newish within the last few years, atm I don't know of any more people on cabinet 44 other than you, so maybe cabinet 26 was full and they put you on the newer cabinet and I don't see BTOR installing a fibre cabinet for just 1 address.

To be honest, I cannot see BTOR installing a PCP cabinet for one address, so I am sure there are others on that cabinet, but I can only go by the information that I have access to, maybe somebody else has more info on this.

Paul

I would of thought this whole new estate is on 44 if you looked at the cabinet you would think it was ancient. There is an older estate which I suspect is also on 44

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I would of thought this whole new estate is on 44 if you looked at the cabinet you would think it was ancient. There is an older estate which I suspect is also on 44

Well that cabinet wasn't in the (cough) Leaked NGA document for April 2011 (cough), so its new
See that's the issue, the place where some of us go only has the above postcode listed as being connected to that cabinet, I checked your postcode you PM'd me and that's also on cabinet 44, so like I said in the PM its out of date and needs to be updated to reflect the changes that have happened as late.

Try entering the postcode for that older estate and see.

Paul