Interleaving now configurable

Saw no mention of this anywhere, sorry if its duplicate.

My Account > Connection settings > Interleaving

Warning! Turning interleaving off may reduce the stability of your broadband connection. We recommend leaving it turned on. If you turn interleaving off, there is no option to turn it back on again.

Ok so maybe its not that configurable!

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If you turn interleaving off, there is no option to turn it back on again.

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Rubbish

Perhaps the OP meant there was no option in the User Portal to turn it back on again. This is certainly what I assumed he meant.

Maybe I should have used quote marks.

"Warning! Turning interleaving off may reduce the stability of your broadband connection. We recommend leaving it turned on. If you turn interleaving off, there is no option to turn it back on again. "

Certainly a worthless tool IMO, BTW what does OP stand for?

Yeah, you could be right.... though one could always argue that there's an option to raise a ticket.

Sorry, ...ask a question

Original Poster.

Ian

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what does OP stand for?

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Opening Post(er), Original Post(er)... it varies

Basically, the first person to raise the point to which you are responding, so it's possible for an OP to be partway through a thread if the subject changes.

That's unusual though, usually it means the first post (or poster) in the thread.

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My Account > Connection settings > Interleaving

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Are you on LLU? I had a look at my connection settings and interleaving is not an option, although I am interleaved according to my router.

I am a little suspicious when things like this are mentioned because if you are not on LLU then maybe I am!! and if I am I feel a war coming on!!

Im on plus.net ipstream MAX

It is not configurable, if interleaving has not been switched on you do not get the option to turn it on/off on your connection settings.

It only appears if you have had it turned on by BT, hence the warning about reducing your stabillty if you decided to turn it off again, and there will be no option to turn it back on if you turn it off.

Edited by cajef (Thu 24-Aug-06 19:23:06)

Its just semantics though, it can be turned on and off, its just in this case pussnet would rather put a line through it because they've got enough issues on they're plate to deal with already.

Edited by buggerlugz (Thu 24-Aug-06 21:27:24)

Never miss an opportunity to jump in and have a knock at Plusnet do you, amazing as you have never been a customer of them.

I was explaining to the OP how the connection setting in the Portal works, whether it is right or wrong or could be implemented differently was no concern of this thread.

Really we should be given a tool thats sets:-

Interneave On/Off/Auto
Target SNR 6/8/10/12/14 DB

I don't want to change something I cant undo!

Never miss an opportunity to jump in and have a knock at anyone who's not been a customer of Pussnet, do you?

Jump on the same bandwagon as Marco why don't you?

It would make more sense, and reading some of the posts on PUG and on the forums a lot of people, especially gamers would like that.

There was an announcement by James Bailey on the forums about the switch on the customer connection settings, link below.

>>linky<<

Personally I could not give a toss about your opinions.

But once again a customer comes on asking about something and you jump on the bandwagon, one of the main reasons why we have lost people that are willing to help others on this forum.

I don't troll the Zen forum, so why do you troll here?

Oh and by the way I do not have the faintest idea as to who your friend Marco is, neither do I want to know or care.

Edited by cajef (Fri 25-Aug-06 10:14:28)

I'm on LLU and I cannot see the option.

I am also supposed to be on plus.net ipstream MAX, but I cant see the option. Maybe it will be like many other things, it will appear eventually!

I'm also on PlusNet IP Stream Max (but not Interleaved), and don't see the tool to turn interleaving off.

AIUI, the Portal tool only appears when Interleaving has been turned on (BICBW), so that would explain why it is not offered to me, but in your case as you say you are interleaved, surely it should be available to you.

Perhaps the reason you are not seeing the tool is due to the fact that Interleaving has been manually set to "On" by BT, rather than the "Auto" setting actually detecting problems and then setting to "On"? ie perhaps the Interleaving setting on your your line is no longer set to "Auto". Just a thought.

I've seen the link from the post from billford in this thread, but aside from that, I've read elsewhere that the BT system turns Interleaving on if it detects 10 reconnections in a period of less than an hour, so that might be a way of turning Interleaving back on.

Rob

Well, for once I'm impressed. Plusnet must be the first ISP to give you the opportunity to turn Interleave off via their portal. Well Done Plusnet, I never thought I'd be typing that on Plusnet forum.

I received this from one of Plusnet staff today:-

Interleaving is switched on automatically (within minutes) when someone raises an intermittent fault report via our support system... If you think about it, if you need to turn interleaving on, it is because you have some sort of fault (even if that is classed as "My line occasionally drops").

So there is effectively options to turn it on and off (Auto is broken), but I think this costs us a fiver a time, so thats why you can't just keep turning it on / off with a switch.

Could be this is the reason why ISP's do not provide this option, and would also explain why Plusnet are not willing to have people switching interleaving themselves, it would be an expensive option if this is the case and it was being switched on/off at random.

I got interleaving switched off for free on an IP Stream connection. Maybe my ISP paid

Edited by wingco1 (Fri 25-Aug-06 22:49:06)