Just had sky fibre installed
 

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/62.png

According to the openreach tech if i go for the pro he said i would get about 76mb down and 20mb up,

and he also said there's only 2 people on fibre on the whole estate!!!!

Youtube buffering days are offically over, pages load instantly,
browsing is lag free....

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Welcome to the other side, the grass is definitely greener!! :D

Have you got the SR101 hub? or the sagem router?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

got the SR101 hub

Rang sky this morning and asked to be upgraded to pro

they said it would take up to 24hrs

getting 38mb down with homeplugs as well so don't know how fast i will get with homeplugs when i get upgraded to pro???

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/on-net...81472-pdt.html These ones..

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

You betcha!!

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I think you might be disappointed with the sr1010hub. :(

If you have a decent router put it in the sr101's DMZ until someone cracks extracting the sr101's username/password.

It's what I am doing and it works a treat.

There's a walkthrough on skyuser.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

200mb homeplugs you should get the full 80mb

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Someone has managed to sniff the username and password from the SR101 using wireshark, ill post the PDF here in a min ;)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

here it is

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

What's "buffering"? Or "lag"? I am not familiar with these phenomena. :p:

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

got the pro this morning get 65mb down and 18mb up with homeplugs,
on my rig, cant tell on the other computer in the house cause its an old P4 and won't do much more than 42mb cabled!!!

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Thx, I am aware and actually have this information, :)

Unfortunately the proposer of this does not have access to a SR-101 and so cannot test it. It would appear, to date, no one else has tested it and so it remains a theory.

Due to disability and the lay-out of my kit it would be quite a physical effort for me to test it.

As piggy-backing in the SR-101's DMZ is managing to do all I need I would prefer for someone else to test and if successful write a step by step guide.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

In the thread I got that PDF from, there was one guy who tested it and confirmed it worked

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I thought someone on this forum had already got it to work?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Nope

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Damn, they used a DMZ.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I must have missed that bit, got a link?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

im tired, maybe it didnt exist. I will take a look though, tomorrow. I hate using the sky user forum, its not very user friendly, still havent been able to find the login button

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Don't worry about a link I have a pretty good idea where it will be if it exists.

Yeah, it is an acquired taste :)
As for the log-In button: Select Forums from the main screen and then look at the extreme top right.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

ahhhh, i have been opening a thread clicking reply to log in until now :D

Ill look for that link now, if it exists

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

:D Needs must as the devil drives.......

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

It has just been confirmed that the wireshark sniffing method works :) Check out post #35 onward.
Wonders if it will work with Tomato?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Hello, the login button is top right of the screen, let me know if you have any issues logging in so we can resolve them.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Its fine I found it now, bit of an odd place to put it though

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I could have sworn the most popular sites in the world put their login buttons at the top right corner...

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

They do, as it fits the rest of the layout, everything is all over the place on sky user

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Seems a fair amount of large companies are adopting that god awful Lithium forum software.

I can't remember which forum thread I was reading, but it supposedly costs thousands of pounds a month to have.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=92656

post 5

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

What are the speeds like? I did a check on speed to be nosy, and according to SKY whilst I can get 35 MB/s from Virgin, they can only give me a maximum speed of 29 MB/s. Just wondering if people's actual speeds are better than what they were told was their maximum.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I was told my maximum sync would be 68Mb/s but actually sync at the full 80Mb/s

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Sounds good, BT reckoned even on Inifnity I would only get 24 MB/s so looks like Virgin have a long term BB customer in me then. Thanks for replying.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

When did you check, they have increased speeds since the initial rollout, try the post code checker again

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=29017

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Are you referring to Sky help and support forum or SkyUser forum ?

They are both sources of good info but unfortunately on SkyUser there are too many sub-forums which should be reduced but the guys there don't listen to me :bigcry:

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Im talking about skyuser. The sub forums are fine, but the theme and layout of the whole site is awful

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I'd happily pay extra for Sky Fibre. I love my Sky BB's cheap price and unlimited usage, but hate being limited to 7-8Mbps because of my crappy phoneline.

I don't think FTTC would be doable, though, due to living in a rented flat with a ridiculously stupid BT master socket location. The master is in the hall, right by the front door. No way we could have a modem & router there. I don't think we could have the modem there and locate the router in the lounge, either, as running Ethernet from the hall is not practical plus even just having one thing (modem) in the hall wouldn't really work. I've read that some people can get their master moved, but I don't know how that works and I doubt we could have that due to a) renting and b) crappy extension wiring.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

You could always mount the router on the wall, probably the modem too

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Hello

The login box is on the top right of the screen on our website. If it appears anywhere else then it has to be a local issue to yourself.

Possibly the resolution or browser you are using?

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Thats your opinion, but as per my previous post, you are probably using an outdated browser, or you have a low resolution.

If using Internet Explorer, try toggling compatibility mode on or off.

Thanks for the compliments on the theme. ;)

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If you are the same bubblegun that I speak to by PM - I don't ever recall being asked to reduce them by yourself.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I doubt that we'd be allowed. It would also mean that everything would have to use WiFi, unless I ran cabling to the lounge, which as mentioned isn't really doable either.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

The modem is supposedly to be always mounted on the wall, though the engineers who did my install explained why and left it up to me to do whatever.

Installation includes a free up-to-20m data extension kit which is basically an ethernet cable that plugs into the master socket and lets you site the modem that far away.

Where is the current ADSL router and what's stopping you putting a FTTC router in exactly the same place?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

The ADSL router is in the TV corner in the lounge, plugged into a phone extension socket.

Can't have a fibre modem there, as they need to be plugged into the master.

Can't have a fibre router there, and the fibre modem in the hallway, as running cabling from the hall to the lounge is not really doable. Length isn't an issue, but the route of the cabling is. One door to go around, another to go through.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Latest version of Chrome, FireFox, IE, the sire layout doesnt change

Also, my resolution is 1920x1080, hardly low

Don't use IE, its only there for testing any websites I build

Don't mean to be harsh, im just explaining that's one of the reasons why I don't use the forum unless necessary, you're not alone, I don't like using thinkbroadband forum either

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

No they don't... They wouldn't offer extension kits as standard if that were the case.

But you already have the existing phone extension cabling, you could probably re-use that.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I thought that the extension kits were for the router, not the modem?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

So you cannot see the Log in or Sign up text top right on the forums?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

i think hes talking about the socket extensions

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I can now someone has pointed it out, as I said above

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Said extension kits...

[Although I was sure that the extension kit was for the router and not the modem?]

Either way, though, running cabling from the hall to the lounge is not really doable, and if it was possible to use the phone socket extensions (which I thought you were specifically *not* supposed to use as everything I've seen says master only) mine would be unlikely to be any good for fibre.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Hes either talking about:

using the current extension socket
using 20m rj11
or running ethernet where the current extension socket cable runs

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Nope, it's for the modem.

For the router anyone can use any old Cat4+ ethernet cable.

and
The data extension kit is basically a plug-in phone extension with RJ11 plugs, pretty much the exact same as you already have (perhaps a bit higher quality though). You might lose 10-20% of your speed (depending on length and quality of the extension) but it'll probably still be a lot faster than non-Fibre-assisted DSL.

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Actually, all three
1) He's already doing this and I see no reason why he can't continue
2) (Correction to myself, it's actually 30m) This is supplied optionally during installation
3) This is what I do.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I'm just a genius, you see :p:

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Ah. Cheers for that. I was sure it was an extension for router not the modem :)

Still not really doable though as mentioned before. Even if the PTB didn't have a problem with cabling being tacked around the front door and off to the lounge, to get *in* the lounge would require drilling through the lounge doorway somewhere.


Re. extension sockets, though... Everything I've seen (including BT's official info on the BT site) says that you *must* use the master, not an extension.

I have, however, seen posts elsewhere by people saying the OR engineer was able to change an extension socket to be the master somehow. Perhaps that would be a better option.

The master is in the hall, and there are three extension sockets (one in the bedroom and two in the lounge).

It's a while since I opened any of them up, but IIRC they're daisy chained like this: Master > Bedroom extension > Lounge extension 1 > Lounge extension 2.

I can't remember what the cabling is like, though. Given other things I'd wouldn't be surprised if it was cheap and nasty. I may have to open up the master and extension and have a look.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Well I am getting fibre from Sky on 3rd December. Only problem is my socket is downstairs and I need the router upstairs.

Well the engineer do this for me?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Like I said, the data extension kit is just a plug-in extension. You already have an extension so you already have basically that in place and ready to use. If it's working for ADSL it'll work for VDSL. FTTC works in the same way as the ADSL you already have, it's just faster. If it had to be plugged into the master, an extension wouldn't be possible on either.

That said the recommendation is probably because you need an *unfiltered* extension or at least a filter on the extension before any phones are connected, which would probably make it look like a master socket. Not an ideal solution but again, it'd work.

The best way to tell what the effects of the extension are is probably to plug your ADSL modem into the master temporarily and measure the difference.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Wish they'd hurry up and enable BT fibre in this area (Worthing Swandean exchange)

The date kept being pushed back, it still says September 2012 on their map, but the fibre checker says the earliest I can get it, is December 31st, 2012

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Exchange and area are two different things. An exchange may serve a hundred cabinets, and many will go live before others.

That said if the checker is saying 31-12-2012 then it means they're fairly confident yours will go live this quarter. Dates do not appear on the checker until they're pretty confident they can be met, and often not until after the cab is already in place.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

So can anyone help me with my post?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Have you read the rest of this thread? all the answers are there

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Option 1: Ask for the modem to be put upstairs as part of the install

Option 2: Get an ethernet cable.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Two days to go. Cant wait :D

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I hate all you fibre users :P

My mum lives about 15 minutes walk from here and she can get fibre, grr
hehe

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Ohhhhh mah gerdddddd!

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Woohoo! :P

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

:woot:

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Decided to go with Sky, installation is on the 14th.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

who would u say offers best deal for just broadband looking to switch from virgin to save money. cannot do it till after christmas at the earliest bt haven't done my cab by me yet but exchange has been done for months

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Lets hope it all goes according to plan.

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Only you can decide, based on your personal requirements, what is the best deal.

However if saving a little money is your only concern then BT might be your best bet but bear in mind that you have to take a telephone service with your fibre BB service.

BT are a little cheaper than sky with their free install and half price for 6 month offers but offer more expensive telecom service, are renowned for adding stuff on to your bill that you never wanted, insist on 18month rolling contracts and actively protocol manage their network, support is offshored and on a par with VM.

Sky offer a free install for existing customers and cheaper telephone options. The BB is completely unmetered and unmanaged. The service is very reliable but from my limited experience the support has been UK based and very good. Contract is 12 months. I pay Sky £30pm for Fibre Pro (80/20) and was paying VM £30pm for 30/3 service. Offhand I can't remeber what sky talk costs except for me, with my usage, it offered a saving over my, at the time, BT line and the costly calling plan they insisted on foisting on me.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Indeed, although I still have Virgin till the 25th, so fingers crossed it works first time, heh

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Still not in my area yet sadly :(

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

i looked at sky website at i could get just broadband for £10 pcm but then add line rental takes it to 25 quid mark, i'm not interested in getting a call package as getting a quality one of virgin but i am only one in my house using 100mb which i don't need but sky is quite appealing but had it in the past and got into trouble with it, plusnet is quite appealing aswell

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I hate the fact they force you to have their phone line, but I guess, it's a smallish price to pay for truly unlimited broadband.

Sky seems to be the only real unlimited provider these days, but you do pay a bit more for that luxury.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

thinking about it not rely bothered if it unlimited really aslong as i can do the same stuff i can do now

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

:D I love it

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/69.png

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

vs 2000 on cable :p

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Off to Skys adsl until my cab is sorted. Those pings of yours are awesome.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Superb pings!

Looking forward to being able to play games again once sky is installed. Wasted 6 months of a subscription due to VM jitter making it unplayable.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

I was offered on the wall, I said no incase it made harder to change the modem for a hacked one but I sort of wish I said yes now.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Hmm, had the new sky router delivered today, Sky always seems to get "most" things right, at least.

With Virgin it was a nightmare, so it's a nice relief to not only get updated at every stage, but to get texts saying when things are being delivered etc.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Totally agree, sms texts off Sky telling me delivery of router to when Bt turning up (which they don`t have to as my line is active now and the ADSL is too :D )

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yes I have to agree. Although I doubted my sky router would show up in time for the install.

I was surprised to find Parcelforce delivering it at 07.00am on a Saturday morning in time for a Monday install. I didn't think that Parcel Force worked on Saturdays.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yea I had a text this morning, from Royalmail, at 7:02 saying your item (tracking number here) from Unipart on behalf of sky is due for delivery today and sure enough, it arrived today.
Then had a text a few hours later saying it had been delivered (..well duh :P)
hehe

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

They do indeed. One of the biggest electronics retailers in the country use them for their Saturday deliveries, often with an 8pm order cutoff. So you could order at 8pm Friday and have Parcel Farce at your door at 8am the next morning.

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It's useful sometimes, I've once sat in all day from 11 til 5 without realising the idiots had already delivered my package to the neighbours at 10am. And they didn't bother updating the tracking info until after 7... That was with ******-link mind you

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

yeah royal mail in my opinion are the best courier service in uk. Ironically the one people consider bloated and not ran properly.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Interesting, I noticed the new sky hub was an adsl router, so out of curiousity, I swapped it for the old one I've been using for Sky Unlimited and it worked.

Connection isn't AS good though, I get 18.5mb, whereas on the old one, I was getting 19.5ish.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

The BT Home Hub 3 is the same - built-in ADSL router/modem combo with an ethernet WAN port for the fibre modem.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yea, I guess I was just surprised it worked, I always assumed they each had a unique password/username?
Either that, or they're sent out pre programmed with the customers username/password for adsl/fibre.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Interested to know if they are pre-programmed. My Sky router has turned up and wondering if I should plug it in and do some packet sniffing.

Hoping the official router is good enough for my needs but have another router with ddwrt as a backup.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

If you have the time and the inclination then finding out your sky username/password is a handy thing to know whether or not you intend to make use of it at this point in time.

The only way to find out is to try it.

Bare in mind it only sports 10/100 ports (one of which you lose on fibre) and is only an N150 device. On the plus side, out of the box, the device is generally stable and wireless was rock solid for me.

After trying it for a week my conclusion is that as a connection sharing device it is adequate but for networking it is leaves a lot to be desired. The addition of a gigabit switch or two would help out no end in this department as would substituting a more capable device.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yeah, although if its not pre-programmed i'll be sniffing for hot air :D

Gigabit switch makes sense, might grab one anyway. The heaviest network use I have is streaming video and 100 has been good enough so far, even if im downloading on the pc too. Just the wireless laptop I figured might not be up to it.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Rest assured it is in there somewhere.

All sky routers need to send their unique username/password to enable the connection. I believe the username/password then has to be sent at regular intervals to keep the connection alive.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Gotta say even with 3 heavy users in the house never had a speed or capacity problem on my FTTC service. 80Mb is plenty for anything time critical and unlike VM there's enough upstream (line and core) capacity to actually make use of that performance.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Un-boxed the hub and plugged it in today. Already had wireshark installed on one of my linux partitions so got the username password within seconds :)

Couple more days and the openreach engineer will be here, can't wait.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

good you confirmed that method works Qtx as was curious :)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Just a heads up. Any sky modem will work on an active line so if your unable to pull a username/password from the current modem then just buy an old one off an Auction site and retrieve it from that :)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Just don't pay too much in case sky has blocked the username/pass for some reason. :erm:

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:tu:

That's you sorted then :)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Cheers for the info all.

Finally plugged in 10 minutes ago. Tests show I can get up to 93Mbps speeds so an upgrade to 80 is easily possible.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/35.png

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Finally a jitter free connection :tu:

Can see what you mean about pages just loading so much faster now Chrysalis. Pretty sure the difference is down to how both isp's handle the multiple connections a browser opens to the same webserver for a single page.

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No matter how many times I run the pingtest, I always get the same results, 13ms and 0ms jitter. Lets see what changes peak times bring with it.

Will the DSM/DLM over the next few days change the latency or will it just affect the speed?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Nice ping too Qtx, what router did you get ,,,,,,

Scrap that I see you have the new hub, let us know what you think of it,,, I might purchase one if I can't get my linky unit to work on MER.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

How do you find out what the line can handle?

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yeah its the new SR101 hub. Will probably only use the wireless side for the phone and laptop, everything else will be connected by RJ45. Annoying that this hub only has 3 ports spare after you plug the fibre modem in and I have 4 devices hard wired usually. So will have to get a gigabit switch if I stay using it otherwise will use the other router.

The routers interface is clear and easy to use but nothing there past the basics a router normally gives.

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The openreach engineer has a device which he uses to run lots of tests once he has installed the fibre, so he can tell from that the theoretical maximum that can be expected. No way to be 100% sure until he does that and tells you.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

keep the modem turned on dont disconnect it for any reason.

Then I expect DLM wont change anything, because you have a huge buffer with 90 meg attainable on a 40meg sync. DLM kicks in when the line is struggling not when it has one hand behind its back.

Router on the other hand is fine tho, I have disconnected ppp many times and it has no affect on DLM, DLM only cares about the sync stability not ppp. So you can swap router, play with router settings etc.

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here is a screenshot of the modem unlocked showing attainable speed, last night I had 110meg and now its 90meg today. Possibly due to crosstalk from a new install on same copper bundle.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/36.png

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Yeah I was going to move the modem to another socket but figured best to leave it a few days. Sky want £10 more a month to upgrade it to the 80 but decided against it. 10Mbps was enough for my needs before so 40 plenty.

Interesting to see the unlocked modem and those stats. Got a feeling I won't bother fiddling that much myself if it all just works.

The only thing I did on the router was to turn off WPS and connect my wireless devices to put their MACS's onto the allowed list and block anything else. Might turn off SSID broadcast and see if my devices have any issues with disconnections.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

You lucky lot with your spare SNRM. Mine is right on the edge and I swing from 70Mb sync interleved to full sync not interleved every month or two, atm it's the former. :( Still, it's not slow so can't really complain.

Are you aware of the graphing scripts?

You can log stats 24/7..
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and create a snapshot as and when, HLOG and QLN only update on connection but the rest are dynamic, this would show where your attainable went if you have a before and after. If it's not done a full reboot you might still be able to graab a before for the HLOG and QLN...
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Also the FEC and CRC errors are reversed in the GUI of the HG612, it's a known bug, on your line interleving is off so it's impossible to have a FEC count because there is no error correction happening ;)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Bet its annoying seeing someone who can get 80 decide to stick at 40 lol. Are you a long way from the cabinet?

Just done my first evening ping test, peak time on a friday....

http://www.pingtest.net/result/73912551.png

Loving the consistency!

Noticed one line of packet loss on tbb graph, not sure if it was a problem, an effect of the DLM or I did something while tidying up the cables around that time.

Once I have a full 24 hours of tbb graph i'll post both my VM and Sky one together ;)

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Seen the difference first hand now, exactly as you said :)

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

yes I know the FEC and cRC are backwards in the GUI.

I didnt do any graphs before the attainable dissapeared and I am not about to start resyncing to see if it comes back, I will only do that sort of thing if my actual sync drops below 79999.

It seems the reason BT estimate so low is crosstalk is brutal on VDSL2, potentially with 20 or so lines active in a bundle it can lose 40% or so of speed. However its estimated within 18 months or so vectoring will be rolled out which should cancel out much of the affects of crosstalk.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/17.jpg

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

Amazing what they manage to squeeze out of copper, even at short distances.

Might as well post a section like you. Nothing has been connected to my VM modem all day....you can guess which graph is which

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/32.png https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/33.png

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

yeah I am amazed also, 40 year old copper doing these sort of speeds.

Re: Just had sky fibre installed
 

In my experience, exactly the same.

It usually changes latency before speed.

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That's colloquially called a JDSU. Your modem will also give you the exact same information.

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You'd be surprised. I've seen people with 140 meg attainable on a 80 meg sync still get interleaving switched on.

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Quite the opposite, best not leave it a few days. DLM ignores any restarts during the first few days because it knows people are likely to be tweaking/moving/restarting the equipment more than usual.

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Mine's gotten fairly similar after 10 months of increasing crosstalk, though I managed to get it to resync during a power cut when pretty much every electronic device in a mile (except the cabinet and my modem, both of which have backup power) was off so zero interference or crosstalk. So far it's stayed up for 2 weeks at full sync despite the SNRM dropping to 3dB. Still, stable at 80Mb sync aint bad for someone who was predicted 53Mb. But the 110Mb attainable without crosstalk gives me hope for 200Mb when 30a + vectoring come out.

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Define "long". Attainable rates of ~80-100 are typical at around 300-400m line length assuming little interference, though in my case I'm 90m from the cab and have a line that behaves like a 400m because VM is so crap that takeup on FTTC is huge.

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VM's cable is 20 year old copper and can do 5-10Gbps...