WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two
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@stephenw10 And for my next instalment in my connection saga,...
(Hope this is of interest to someone,. and not just my waffling)
following the Kelly Communication visit,. my WAN stayed up for 5 Days,.. then that evening had a real tantrum,. dropping and re-connecting 4 or 5 times real PITA..
Escalated to BT,.. Again, ( I was not a happy bunny )... unable to book visit,.. but engineer rang the following day,.. said all looked good ( here we go again I think ),.. from his remote testing,. discussed history,.. and previous engineer visits,.. clarified what Kelly Eng had done,.. and we concluded 'not a lot'.
Said he could attend premises in 20mins,.. Yes pls.
So,.. BT eng,. checked the line for reference,.. said its performance was OK'ish, but was not at the level he would expect for a line that was only 2 hundred metres from a FTTC box... He compared my line to others on the same pole,.. ie my neighbours,.. and they were getting slightly better performance,.. which although not perfect was an indicator something might be up!! ( they were getting 90 to a 105 download, where as I was is the 80's )
He checked my copper line to the premises,.. ( this involved placing a 'gizzmo' into my socket at the premises,.. and then doing some checks at he cabinat, at the other end of the copper, and that was all good.
He then did some re-config,..
As I understand,.. a fibre comes from the exchange to the cabinet,.. hence FTTC,.. it is then somehow multiplexed across numerous copper connections,.. ( so splitting the bandwidth of the fibre to multiple copper pairs )... this switching is configured with software by changing a port ID's,... to give a different link into the fibre.
BT Engineer then allocated my premises a new port, at the cabinat.
On return to my premises further test showed speed improvements, if not amazing,. what was encouraging is the fault packet count was at zero, running over a short test period. ( previously FEC was always counting up )
My current rate speed is at 73/11Mbps... and I have been running for some 12hrs without a drop,..
So definitely early days,.. but even the BT eng. was upbeat about having fixed my problem, and for the first time I feel something concrete has been done,.. based on data and investigation,.. other than just previously ticking boxes,.. 'your performanace shows as 71/20,.. so you should be fine' ( so stop complaining
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Do I get this right : you've fiber arriving at 200 meters, and the final delivery has to come over copper (here are the crusty connections, sun electromagnetic waves, probably pppoe etc) ?
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@Gertjan Yes,.. there is a short link from the exchange via fibre to the cabinat, and the cabinat is approx. 200m away from my property,.. but still a relatively short link in copper term.
But as copper tests showed my link appeared ok,.. although engineer did say he recently encountered a customer where the copper had worn,.. but only showed up as a problem when it was windy. -
Ok, thanks.
I'm amazed : plain copper (POTS ?) wires, non twisted, not shielded, and its possible to pump 70 Mbits over them ... -
@Gertjan said in WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two:
I'm amazed : plain copper (POTS ?) wires, non twisted, not shielded, and its possible to pump 70 Mbits over them ..
Typical telephone cabling. Twisted pair. Nothing special obviously.
A typical fttc installation with a dslam and vdsl over telephone wiring.
Its just that the op isn't familiar with the terminology. -
Yeah they are twisted pairs. And 80Mbps is pretty normal for that. g.fast over those same wires and distance could see 200-300Mbps. I'm at ~300m from the cabinet and get >140Mbps. But bring on FTTP. Can't come soon enough IMO!
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@stephenw10
Just for some more info / interest,.. the BT engineer sent me some screen shots,..
This one shows the speeds of 'other' customers on the same pole as myself,.. all I know is that I am the bottom bottom one of the list,... and although still within spec., the engineer was suspicious of why my Max speed was not closer to the 90's.
which spurred him on more to pursue a little further..Following a 'lift and shift' operation at the cabinet,.. to reallocate me to a new port,.. this is the result, where the system shows my Max attn. speed now in the 94+Mbps region...
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@diyhouse All of this was something of concern, ten years ago.
Since you have ftth as an option, there is no point wasting time with xdsl.The pair you have, will be invalidated the moment some neighbor changes something. Equipment, speed etc.
Crosstalk will kick in, and you 'll be back to square one. -
Meh. I've never had much of an issue with FTTC. It pretty much 'just works' here and I don't think I have anything special.
But, yes, I will switch to FTTP the second they make it available.
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@stephenw10
Just a quick update to folks,.. well its been 7 days ( on its way to 8 ), as I type,.. with continuous internet access,..
Well lets just say the WAN has not dropped,.. and for me that is close to a record in the last 12 months.
So looking positive since my 3rd ( and lastest ) visit from a BT engineer. -
@diyhouse Until the next thunderstorm.
