In reply to a post by chrisparr:

We can offer Max Premium for £7.83 per month on a residential connection, it's not something that's pushed on our website but it is still available.

Market 1?

Ok. Extra has some rate limiting at peak on P2P/Usenet and External FTP. Our current Unlimited product doesn't.

http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/archi...


(edited "traffic shaping" to "rate limiting" as it is more accurate)

Edited by deleted (Fri 14-Jun-13 16:10:47)

Max Premium isn't charged by market area, it's a flat additional fee on to the bill.

Ah - I read it as that was the cost! Not an additional cost . I thought it was cheap, hence the question.

Welp, am now connected with Vivaciti! A relatively painless process but had some troubles signing up - sorted by Enta.

Bought a second hand ST585v6 modem for 99p and flashed it 6.2T version of the firmware. Been connected over an hour and here are my stats:

Link Information
Uptime: 0 days, 1:35:20
Modulation: G.992.1 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 832 / 8,128
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]: 34.62 / 335.43
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 10.0 / 19.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 7.0 / 15.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 15.0 / 13.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / IFTN
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 0
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 4
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 2

I know it doesn't matter in this case as I am syncing at maximum possible speed but why is my SNR margin so high?

Can't wait till November now for my exchange to be upgraded to 21CN! I should get decent speeds, right?

Edited by deleted (Fri 12-Jul-13 17:20:38)

In reply to a post by CaptainJack:

Welp, am now connected with Vivaciti!
Bought a second hand ST585v6 modem for 99p and flashed it 6.2T version of the firmware.

Out of curiosity, as I am considering leaving O2, which package with Vivaciti are you on, as your on ADSL1, and what made you choose them? Aquiss are also on my list. Vivaciti have a package with O2 Wholesale LLU for £18, same as Aquiss, when I spoke to both of them they reckoned my line wouldn't even be touched in exch. as it would be the O2/BE gear I'm already on, just a software disconnect to be put thru Entas' backhaul.

On 20CN ADSL which that is, once you sync at the 8128kbp maximum the noise margin rises to what it would need to be to bring it down to 8128Mbps if it wasn't capped. Perfectly normal .

On 21CN (WBC is a better term) you should get around 20Mbps with that attenuation. I haven't done the arithmetic but have a feeling your SNRM should be even higher than it is. In which case you may have poor wiring at home.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 12-Jul-13 17:59:19)

Yeah, I usually plug it into master socket but since this is the maximum I can get, I won't bother here. It's plugged into the main socket but there are extensions running from it - probably with a ring wire as well!

Will have a closer gander when I get WBC.

I am on Office 45, which gives me a higher upload speed and shorter "peak periods"

I looked at Aquiss and it looked pretty much the same as Vivacity but was around £4 more expensive - so I went with Vivaciti.

In reply to a post by CaptainJack:

I am on Office 45, which gives me a higher upload speed and shorter "peak periods"

I looked at Aquiss and it looked pretty much the same as Vivacity but was around £4 more expensive - so I went with Vivaciti.

Ah right, I'm looking at the 'up to 12 mb' on O2

Another question, where did you get that firmware for the 585v6 from? Thats what I have as a spare, flashed it with BE firmware back 2007 to work on O2 as backup, but since did factory reset and no longer works on O2 and lost the BE ISO. Many thanks

dave