Have done part 3 of the BTW perfomance test as well .

Test Results:

1. Best Effort Test:

Download speed : 14.09
IP profile: 14.87

2. Upstream test :

Upload speed : 0
IP profile : 20

Your service was found to be performing poorly.

Please raise a fault with your service provider, stating that the BT performance tester tool indicates poor service throughput performance after the third test.

My observations about the connection so far: Day 3 on FTTC

thumbs up:

1.download speed has been stable [sorry i hope i dont jinx it..] at 14 Mb +/- 0.5
2. wireless gives almost same speed as wired...

thumbs down:

1. speed is still less than 50% of the estimated speed at time of order [34 Mb] and less than 20% of the speed [78 Mb] which engineer said i could get based on his test from master socket.

is it really that hard to test from master socket?

I'm surprised the engineer didn't repeat the test from the data extension to make sure it worked.

Oo, there's a thought. Perhaps there's only one wire connected.

Can you try a phone in the data extension and see if it works?

Hi abhijack,

Sorry to see you're still having some issues. I've flagged your latest reply to Chris (Purvey) who will reply to your thread on our community site:

http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1108...

Adam

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

is it really that hard to test from master socket?

Well it is, as the BT modem is wall mounted by the engineer about 5 metres away from master socket.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Oo, there's a thought. Perhaps there's only one wire connected.

Can you try a phone in the data extension and see if it works?

will try that when i get home ...

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I'm surprised the engineer didn't repeat the test from the data extension to make sure it worked.

I am surprised too that he didnt think of that...

But to be fair he waited there for a while when my PC was trying to connect to the router.. The 'finishing set up' process went on forever and couldnt access the internet even after 2 cups of coffe/20 mins.

I rang the PN tech support who advised that it may take time in some cases and hence need to wait for upto 24 hours. The engineer spoke to the tech guy from PN as well. And of course the engineer couldnt wait till an unlimited time.

After 4 hours I rang customercare as it was not connecting still. The helpful guy this time suggested advanced router setup and it started working soon after that..

Had the tech support guy, I spoke to when engineer was there, given me right instructions the engineer could have seen the slow speed which is less than 20% of what he told me . I think he would have done a test from data extension kit atleast then...

In reply to a post by thatadamwalker:

Hi abhijack,

Sorry to see you're still having some issues. I've flagged your latest reply to Chris (Purvey) who will reply to your thread on our community site:

http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,1108...

Adam

Thanks Adam...I am thankful that Chris is trying hard. Hope the tech guys / engineers sort it soon.

It seems this automated Plusnet setup is too clever for it's own good. Unlucky.
My neighbour often has trouble with it.

My neighbour often has trouble with it.

I'm intrigued by this as they should really only need to use to once?

So is my neighbour. It pops up with the TR069 details which requires the router to be powered off and on. But that's a diversion.

More importantly is why it can take 24 hours to configure which the engineer is unable to wait for. Shouldn't the router be pre-configured to work right away when it's plugged in?