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[kitz]

I wouldn't be surprised if the first Bob Pullen knew about the trial was when it was raised on the Plusnet forum.

If anyone would know, then it would likely be Bob.   It's been part of his remit for the past few years to be aware of what's going on and even have a say in such things.   
Bob moved away from general CS support, up and beyond years ago, although perhaps you wouldn't think so as he still sticks his nose into the forums as I think he still has to be very aware of what's going on there too.     Officially speaking, I believe he's no longer 'Plusnet' and has more recently moved over to the dark side... yet still overseeing parts of what PN do.   

[ktz392837]

I outlined their usual methods of trials above.  This is trialling 100k ECI lines via ISP opt in.

I am sure I posted this with a reply yesterday evening perhaps I didn't click submit!

[ktz392837]

Has anyone heard back from any ISPs saying they are definitely putting their customers on the trial? 

Can't wait to see if come Thursday if anyone here gets on the trial. 

OR can reset my line off interleave and give me Ginp on Thursday morning it is due to be removed around that time anyway

[skyeci]

My ISP Zen told me at this time that they were not taking part sadly for me..

[j0hn]

Has anyone heard back from any ISPs saying they are definitely putting their customers on the trial? 

Can't wait to see if come Thursday if anyone here gets on the trial. 

OR can reset my line off interleave and give me Ginp on Thursday morning it is due to be removed around that time anyway

Did I miss something? What's happening Thursday?

[ktz392837]

Did I miss something? What's happening Thursday?

Hopefully a new trial of Ginp on ECI cabinets will start.  Full announcement in OP.

[j0hn]

Ah.
I took any date with a pinch of salt and browsed right past it.

I'd be surprised to see examples of Retx on day 1 of the trial.
Would be nice to see OpenReach beat my low expectations of them on this though,
Previous ECI Retx trials leave me a little sceptical 

[ktz392837]

Completely agree but I can dream that the outcome will be more positive this time

OR could have completely given up but they haven't they deserve some credit for this.

[mrk26]

EE didn't confirmed, but they asked for my details, so we will see on (from) Thursday if something change.

[adslmax]

Plusnet told forum as they start this next week to move this forward for some of ECI customers to take trial of G.INP not every customers.

[Alex Atkin UK]

bobpullen

I've relayed everybody's interest and hope for there to be some movement next week 🙂

[adslmax]

bobpullen

Too late to the party I'm afraid Sad

I'll keep you in mind for any further activity though.

Seem I was correct as not everyones taking part of this. Very limit one.

[kitz]

No its not a very limited one -  As mentioned in the other thread the trial is for 100k lines via ISP opt in.

Read Bobs post carefully

ISP's aren't offering 10-30 lines each, you're reading between the lines. What we won't be doing though, is running this as an open trial. There isn't a team, nor the capacity to faciliate it, and I don't think it's a good fit for this type of activity anyway.

I simply noted the interest and pulled a favour, because in low numbers, I think some open discussion here could be of benefit

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I think I can possibly take a good stab at what Bob did, based on the fact that the submitted lines didn't appear to go in until very last minute. 
ISP opt ins have to be in well before the start of the trial date so it gives the ISP time to vet the OR selected list and make adjustments.

Bob is far from stupid and will realise that certain PN customers do have access to full stats so are more likely to notice changes than say Sky customers.   He is aware that much of the problems with G.INP Mk1 was spotted by users of this forum, MDWS and feed back also on the PN community site.  Bob was heavily involved in reporting the G.INP Mk1 fiasco to Openreach..  who were totally blind and oblivious to it until he raised it...  so hopefully those on the trial will report any findings in the thread as he requested.

[Chrysalis]

I have had no further updates from AAISP which doesnt bode well.

[kitz]

Thats sad 

The more people on the trial who have access to decent stats the better IMHO.     I doubt the average [say Sky] user using an SP provided modem would notice what's going on.    Probably those who benefit the most will be those with error correction and interleaving who should see more of an immediate benefit.   I don't have error protection atm, but it would be nice if I no longer had to worry about my daily spike landing me with interleaving.
I'd also be interested to see how much of a difference g.inp does make to my daily dose of SHINE..   as in reality g.inp isn't very good protection against SHINE type noise.    Also my line stats have changed quite a bit since G.INP Mk1 when I used to easily get 80Mbps, but I didn't see much difference to the max headline rate.   I'm now hit by crosstalk and my days of 80Mbps are long gone...  so whilst I'm not expecting much of a speed improvement, I am hoping this opens the gateway to 'x'dB.