Hi,
I moved from Sky Fibre Unlimited Pro to Plusnet 80/20 last month. I used to get download speeds of around 66 Mbps with Sky but they tended to be around 54 Mbps when I first joined Plusnet. I changed the modem from the ECI supplied by OR to the HG612 which gave me a 2 Mbps boost. After complaining a few times to Plusnet they said it's within tolerances.
According to the BT Broadband availability checker I get the following:
FTTC Range A (Clean): 66.9 - 80 Mbps
FTC Range B (Impacted): 56.9 - 80 Mbps
I telneted into the HG612 modem and got the following:
# xdslcmd info --stats
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 20674 Kbps, Downstream rate = 70652 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 19999 Kbps, Downstream rate = 61451 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL2 Profile: Profile 17a
TPS-TC: PTM Mode(0x0)
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 6.2 6.5
Attn(dB): 16.0 0.0
Pwr(dBm): 13.4 6.9
VDSL2 framing
Bearer 0
MSGc: 18 26
B: 51 237
M: 1 1
T: 64 42
R: 12 16
S: 0.0269 0.3781
L: 19016 5374
D: 1203 1
I: 64 127
N: 64 254
Counters
Bearer 0
OHF: 686735 299114
OHFErr: 0 2
RS: 175657514 3967314
RSCorr: 828 40
RSUnCorr: 0 0
Bearer 0
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 140347782 0
Data Cells: 87454 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
ES: 0 2
SES: 0 0
UAS: 23 23
AS: 1188
Bearer 0
INP: 3.00 0.00
INPRein: 0.00 0.00
delay: 8 0
PER: 1.72 3.98
OR: 110.98 64.22
AgR: 61561.52 20063.54
Bitswap: 966/966 35/36
Total time = 20 min 11 sec
FEC: 828 40
CRC: 0 2
ES: 0 2
SES: 0 0
UAS: 23 23
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 5 min 11 sec
FEC: 45 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 783 40
CRC: 0 2
ES: 0 2
SES: 0 0
UAS: 23 23
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 20 min 11 sec
FEC: 828 40
CRC: 0 2
ES: 0 2
SES: 0 0
UAS: 23 23
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Since Link time = 19 min 47 sec
FEC: 828 40
CRC: 0 2
ES: 0 2
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
The max downstream is 70652 Kbps but the bearer is much lower at 61451 Kbps. Even with that, I would imagine a speedtest would be closer to 60 Mbps than 55 Mbps assuming overheads.
Any thoughts as to why I'm getting almost 10Mbps lower than I did with Sky? It's really puzzling me.