Yeah your graph looks nowhere near as good as mine. On jitter sensitive stuff like SSH command line it feels no different for me now vs DSL.

I dont know what the CBT's specifically look like, I took a pic just now of my pole, it has my side a rectangular blue box attached, and I think maybe smaller black one the other side.

There is also road markings outside every property which I assumed is where they putting them but nothing placed there, I suspect CF is at least a year away for me, I was told late last year minimum 9 months. There has been no local CF works near me for a while now, neither is there any planned within 3 months, they instead just been moving progressively further and further away with no activations occurring. When I was checking my archived emails earlier for something else I found the one ones from Zen alerting me CF is coming soon, dated spring 2021, it really has been taking CF an eternity to do the local rollout.

But VM is currently working really good for me now, its been far more stable than DSL (ttb was having regular outages before I cancelled and sky also did over night maintenance a lot), on VM I have had one unexplained hub reboot which thankfully only happened once, a firmware update, and the upstream channel upgrade. So pretty good.

The blue box my side on my low detail picture has no cables attached to it, but I think I can see the outline of a cable the other side, when its quieter later I will get closer to the pole and check the other side.

Are your CBTs on the ground or the poles?

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 07-Mar-23 16:38:53)

The CBT for me is on the pole, had a purple tube sticking out of the ground since August!
Its a black box at the top, opposite side of the pole to the existing OR one.

The have put a few new poles in too where the drops are too long. Some houses have had buried tobys put in too (Glenfield Road near Fosse Road and the new houses Gimson/Nevanton Road).

Also had Openreach round last week surveying for FTTP too, checking chambers and ducts, they also are putting some more poles in!

From atrocious ASDL to overload of FTTP and Cable in 5 years!

I assume Virgin will also be doing their fibre upgrades too, however the RFOG is not good for latency, mu sister is on it in Syston and her ping is 20mS minimum, double mine.
Lots of dropped packets too.
My Broadband Ping

Here is a pic of my pole but because I was at distance zooming in lowers the quality.

https://i.imgur.com/4Oy6mur.png

I think my 3.1 US channel is flapping, looked at the log to help someone on the internet, and my US channel looks like it keeps dropping and coming back, actual service seems ok including speed tests, but my TBB graph has a thick blue line since this started in the logs and base latency moving up and down as well. Hopefully will settle down.

Graph looks normal from about 4am today, it was for the full 24 hours yesterday.

My Broadband Ping

Granted could be totally unrelated.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 13-Mar-23 16:22:16)

Seems ok now, I suspect it was roadworks related, was drilling vibrating the property on those dates, so even if the problem comes back I will leave it until they stopped working outside my home before considering reporting it.

Just checked my BQM, and it looks the best it ever has!
How did you see the channel dropping?

Something changed on 16th Feb.

Graph from 15th
My Broadband Ping


Graph from 16th Feb
My Broadband Ping


Checking my SamKnows whitebox data it seems that the connection is stable and speeds are good up and down. I do see some random disconnections on the data, but not sure these are actual issues because they aren't evident on the BCQ graphs?

I do wonder how old the actual cables in the ground are now, and that the latest technology may be pushing the physical infrastructure? Roadworks shouldn't affect the connection if they aren't actually interfering with the physical cables? Unless there is a fault with the same cables!

I'm currently in discussion with Virgin due to my bundled O2 SIM now on its second price rise in 18 months, despite Virgin assuring me that my contract will not increase until 2024. Maybe its time for a change until Virgin actually upgrade to FTTP to stabilise the connections.

Am not sure its actually dropping, but basically the hub5 doesnt show the 3.1 channels normally. So the logs show when the channel is activated, the 3.1 DS channel only activates once as would expect, but my 3.1 US channel was flapping between different profiles alongside some T3 timeouts on it as well.

However it seems to have stopped yesterday. By coincidence the heavy equipment stopped been used by the workers then as well.

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 14-Mar-23 11:39:53)

So the plot thickens!
Virgin sent me an email saying I was not going to be impacted by the price increases, it seems that I am according to the guy at retentions I spoke to yesterday.
They wont budge on the O2 increases, even though I didn't actually sign up myself!

On another note, it looks like Openreach are pushing forwards with their FTTP roll out here, lots of activity with new poles and people looking into chambers, nothing for years except oversubscribed cable, now were going to have a choice of at least 2 FTTP. Who knows if VM do buy out cityfibre!

The Virgin connection does seem to be stable recently tho!

In reply to a post by Philce:

So the plot thickens!
Virgin sent me an email saying I was not going to be impacted by the price increases, it seems that I am according to the guy at retentions I spoke to yesterday.
They wont budge on the O2 increases, even though I didn't actually sign up myself!

On another note, it looks like Openreach are pushing forwards with their FTTP roll out here, lots of activity with new poles and people looking into chambers, nothing for years except oversubscribed cable, now were going to have a choice of at least 2 FTTP. Who knows if VM do buy out cityfibre!

The Virgin connection does seem to be stable recently tho!

OR officially are only planned in a few parts of Leicester, looks like you might be in that catchment area, I am not that far from it, but not in the net. I have too seen some OR work, but it might be just to support the official areas, officially my street isnt planned.

But I would prefer CF fibre anyway and thats the one coming here, as I do think the upload speeds on OR FTTP are extremely scrooge, and that would be the only thing that would perhaps move me away from VM now, as the service has been much better than I was expecting.

I agree, even for me with no OR its quite the turnaround.

Talking of VM emails, I have just had my 2nd boost your broadband email from VM, they seem to have forgotten I am already on the top tier.

Need to think who is the worst at spam VM or EE, 6 texts from EE within a month trying to get me to buy expensive devices, 5 emails from VM advertising alternative services.

No price rise for me this year as well. Never got an email for it which is funny with all the spam, but was informed by letter.

Flapping seems to have stopped on the 3.1 channel.