Activated on Zen yesterday. Very pleased so far

Had a nice chap from Kelly communications ring my home phone and say he's at my cabinet doing the necessary work and he'll be round in ten minutes to install the new face plate and modem.

Sure enough he turned up and got to work on my master socket. He had no issues using a high quality RJ11 cable and a power jack extension I already had, and once it was up and running showed me I'm getting the full 80/20 speed

My wireless g devices have no chance, but wired devices are getting 75/19 so I can't argue with that. Just got to run some Cat5 to a switch upstairs so I can take full advantage in the rest of the house.

I did notice I've got an ECI modem and what looks like a Huawei cabinet (only discovered about the differences after the engineer was gone!) . Might buy a cheap Huawei modem in the future and fiddle around but everything seems fine so far.

Cheers

75/19 that more than plusnet at 72/17. Can you try this evening to see what the peak hour speed are like.

I have not seen any reports about the ECI modem and performance issues when connected to a Huawei Dslam @ the cab I have seen reports re the Huawei Modem not performing as good as the eci if connected to a the ECI Dslam though, as well as reports of the Huawei Modem not giving the full throughput on the upstream (out of the box) due to some Qos setting, unless this got changed via a firmware upgrade ?
But if you want to see the line stats or log them, then the Huawei Modem is the way to go on that front as i'm sure you will probably already know

Here's one I did just now. Seems to be a drop off but that could just be overloaded servers or some other factors rather than ISP congestion. One attempt at a particular server got 5Mbps!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3381937721.png

I'll keep an eye on it.

Hmmm that's very interesting as it appear Zen are affected too the same as BT, Plusnet with network issues during peak hours,

If the op isn't able to be routed over zen's own network from one of their POP's then they will see the same congestion as any other 21cn customer using those BT links ,as use the isp has their own network like sky and tt do then they all use the same bt wholesale links to the ISP's handover points/data centres

Did another test this morning and was getting 54/18.5, but the TBB tester gave me this

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

I don't think I'll pay too much attention to speedtest sites from now on because with fast fibre it must be difficult for servers to sustain those sorts of transfer rates, so results are hit and miss.

That points to an issue with the firefox container plugin rather than a capacity issue on our server which has 10 Gbps of capacity to it and we control the network so know if any bottle necks exist.

I was implying your speed test gave a decent result that time...

Probably right on the firefox thing though, as the x6 seems low.

Does http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/ispa give a good HTTPx6 result. Does not use flash or java