Time for a change?

Hi,

I have been with BE for 11 months, I am on their Value package with unlimited calls etc so it is costing me around £38 a month.

I was looking at Sky as the equivalent package is only £22 a month. I was wondering on peoples experiences, I mainly game online iRacing and LoTRO.

My line stats:

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1.308 / 12.081

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,0 / 19,3

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 8,7 / 36,0

SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6,1 / 5,8


Any thoughts would be great!

Cheers!!

Might as well go for it.

Sky LLU is brilliant. You might loose a tiny bit of speed as SKY go for stability over speed. The bonus is that Sky broadband connections do not drop out or disconnect (generally). I could go literally months and months without a single drop out.

Sky's DLM runs for the 1st 10 days and literally aims to get you a broadband connection that will never ever drop. That's its number 1 aim. It starts slow usually at 4Mbps and works it way up - ensuring at each increase in speed that your line is 100% stable.

You should have no problems on Sky for what you need.

Signed up with Sky for 12 months last week. Activation is on the 18th December. House re-cabled with extensions removed to hopefully get the full benefit from broadband with no speed cap(Currently on BE value).

Did the re-cabling improve your line stats?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Did the re-cabling improve your line stats?

Slight increase in downstream, but I am limited to 12mb anyway. Seem to be getting far fewer FEC/CRC/HEC errors. Also removed intermittent crackle on the line.

Now waiting to see if the iPlate helps any further.


Uptime: 0 days, 2:27:55

DSL Type: ITU-T G.992.5

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1.278 / 12.287

Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]: 84,83 / 363,77

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,0 / 19,3

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 21,1 / 36,0

SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6,6 / 5,7

System Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / ----

Chipset Vendor ID (Local/Remote): BDCM / BDCM

Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 9 / 0

Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 1 / 0

Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0

Loss of Link (Remote): -

Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 82 / 0

FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 31.658

CRC Errors (Up/Down): 27 / 112

HEC Errors (Up/Down): 12 / 2.745

If you have no extensions an iPlate does nothing to help, and looks ugly. Occasionally it can degrade a connection.

Re connection speed, at most another 1.3Mbps. Almost certainly less than that.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 07-Dec-12 17:27:37)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

If you have no extensions an iPlate does nothing to help, and looks ugly. Occasionally it can degrade a connection.

Re connection speed, at most another 1.3Mbps. Almost certainly less than that.

Yeah it is more for reducing stuff hanging out the wall tbh

I have a Solwise faceplate that looks okay on the BT NTE5 master socket. Has connection for your ADSL and a phone. Yes its worth it just to keep it all neat rather than having micro filters hanging around.

Edited by deleted (Fri 07-Dec-12 17:47:52)

In reply to a post by Skilty:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

If you have no extensions an iPlate does nothing to help, and looks ugly. Occasionally it can degrade a connection.

Re connection speed, at most another 1.3Mbps. Almost certainly less than that.

Yeah it is more for reducing stuff hanging out the wall tbh

You don't mean an iPlate then! (Component 2 in the pic). That just adds bulk but you still need a dangly filter with it.

You mean a filtered faceplate, good ones available from ADSL Nation, Solwise and Clarity, - a different beastie altogether.

Yeah it's an ADSL Nation XTE2005 faceplate, I was being lazy and said iPlate