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Broadband Related => FTTC and FTTP Issues => Topic started by: Geekofbroadband on September 08, 2015, 05:36:10 PM

Title: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: Geekofbroadband on September 08, 2015, 05:36:10 PM: I was just looking as this page http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/DLM.htm

Is it confirmed yet that BT use the speed profile, I see it has a question mark :D
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: GigabitEthernet on September 08, 2015, 06:22:57 PM: It gets more confusing as some ISPs will change the profile during a fault, as I have discovered.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: forceware on September 08, 2015, 06:33:48 PM: I am with BT, and I know I'm on speed profile from the amount of es per day that my line will accept on fastpath without dlm action. I've had over 2000 a few times.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: kitz on September 08, 2015, 08:39:03 PM: There was a post on the BT forums a while ago that suggested BTr can change it if you ask the right person the right questions.
There was also some doubt whether anyone with TV was put on standard and others on speed and there does (or did) seem to be a mix.
The question mark is there because Im not sure.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: Chrysalis on September 08, 2015, 08:57:04 PM: I am pretty sure i was on speed with my time on BT, but that was now 2+ years ago. I didnt have their tv service.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: forceware on September 08, 2015, 10:57:50 PM: Just to clarify. I don't have their TV service iether
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: JamesK on September 10, 2018, 10:34:22 AM: A bit of a late update on this... I'm having a new install from BT later this week. I had a call from their Executive Complaints Team. I've no idea why as I hadn't complained about anything. Anyway, I asked what policy would be used for my line provisioning. He initially said that everybody was setup with the Speed (BTw Standard) policy, but said he would clarify for me.

He called me back a few minutes later to say that he'd had confirmation that BT were now deploying all new connections with the Standard (BTw Stable) policy. He has agreed to put me on onto Speed as I've requested it.

So this would explain why some people are seeing their connections on the Standard profile.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: j0hn on September 10, 2018, 02:43:31 PM: Unless a very recent change, that's also nonsense (that all new connections are on Standard).
BT use a mix of both, and always have.
If they all used to be Speed but are now Standard why have we always seen a mix of both?
It's not like Standard appearing on BT lines is new.

The vast majority are on the Speed profile.
I've never heard a good reason why some are on 1 or the other but it's not TV related either.

Even BT don't seem to be able to answer correctly but a line I helped setup at the start of August is definitely on the Speed profile. ECI cab, fastpath, 1800+ ES everyday. It was interleaved for the 1st 4 days.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: Chrysalis on September 22, 2018, 06:26:26 PM: He already answered your question, a policy for new customers may not affect older customers hence the mixed result.
Title: Re: BT NGA profile, speed or standard
Post by: GaryW on September 23, 2018, 11:26:29 AM: There's no obvious pattern. I used to be on Standard profile, but after submitting a request via the BT community forum back in May I'm now on Speed profile. I was on "Unlimited Faster Broadband" when I made the switch to VDSL in 2014 (long line) so that could have had something to do with it, but pure speculation.