I'd expect the connection speed to be poor if it was the BAE place. And frequent disconnections associated with your problem. Plus huge error rates.

'@Zarjaz' ?? Don't go getting all Twittery on me young man !

OK, I have trawled through again, and can't see anything like an error count or uptime, but lets suppose you are right !

Lets suppose it has a 3db target snr, this would imply that the pair itself is sweet as a nut. So maybe yes. BTw 21cn equipment is a weird and finicky beast. *Maybe* it is mucking around, maybe it's an over populated VP, maybe it's the ISP's end of things........
It won't however be a jumpering issue.

The trouble with through put speed issues, if the ISP does persuade BTw to get an SFI out, you have to cross your fingers that it isn't one of the 'new breed', who test the pair as good, see that you are in sync and then [censored] off without actually listening to what the punter is complaining about.

The thing that struck me as odd about the stats, was that the upstream attenuation looked high in relation to the downstream. Also th upstream sync rate look surprisingly low for a 21cn circuit ?

Questions, questions, but no answers.

To the OP, you mention BAE, are you in Farnborough ? If so, where ?

Good point about error counts. I'd missed that, grandad .

If I remember later I'll see if the usual telnet way of getting the stats work on that router.

Also the upstream sync rate look surprisingly low for a 21cn circuit ?

Could be Plusnet. They default it to that even on ADSL2+.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

To the OP, you mention BAE, are you in Farnborough ? If so, where ?

Sounds like Portsmouth to me??

Plusnet ?? The OP mentioned 'Firefly' as an ISP.

Zarjaz - might take me a few reads to decipher that, thank you!


Nope I'm in Essex, the hill is Bushy Hill (but we call it Radar Hill for obvious reasons). Marconi used it as a testing site and then BAE took over a few years ago. I'd love to know exactly what they do up there! We often see chinooks land up there.

/me shoots self.

They may be doing the same though.

I just completely lost all net for an hour or so. No connection at all (I really wish my router told me more...I had one once that would give me more information on why it wasn't connecting). Makes me really panic with work!

Most likely nothing that affects your broadband service.