Hi. Looking for some expert advice / opinion from you all
I'm wondering whether I am on the wrong tariff and overpaying as a result.
I'm currently on FTTC BT Superfast Fibre 1 Unlimited (what used to be BT Infinity 1 Unlimited). I'm some way from the cabinet (circa 1km) so speed is around 30mbps - ive posted my HG612 stats below. The HG612 is a new addition - after the wifi on my BT smarthub (HH6) started playing up, I swapped to an unlocked HG612 and an Asus router. The change actually increased the connection speed by about 10% but unless I'm mistaken I reckon I'm about as fast as the line will provide now. The HG612 has been up for about 8 days now.
So the question is, can I safely move to a cheaper (BT) broadband tariff without losing whatever speed I now have? BT now do an Unlimited version of their "Fibre Essentials" package which I think is a 36Mbps maximum speed. As I'm getting less than that, it seems that I'm wasting money being on the higher 50/10 package. Of course, when I speak with BT they just try to get me to "upgrade" to their 66Mbps 'Plus' deal, which will I guess be even more of a waste of money for me! No mention of the Essentials package at all.
One other question - Do these stats show that I have Interleaving on the line now? I'm pretty sure that the HH6 was "Fastpath" (altho at a lower 28Mbps speed). Will this interleaving ever change to Fastpath, or does the higher connection speed I now get also mean that Interleaving is here to stay?
EDIT: Forgot to explain - if you reckon the speed might increase beyond the 36Mbps maximum that that Essentials package provides, that'd obviously be a reason to stay on the package I have currently. But that's another 20% faster than what I have today. So probably unlikely I imagine.
Many thanks for any help you can post.
xdslcmd info --stats
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 6998 Kbps, Downstream rate = 30436 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 6998 Kbps, Downstream rate = 30978 Kbps
Bearer: 1, Upstream rate = 0 Kbps, Downstream rate = 0 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): 6.3 6.1
Attn(dB): 25.8 0.0
Pwr(dBm): 12.9 5.3
VDSL2 framing
Bearer 0
MSGc: -6 26
B: 227 207
M: 1 1
T: 0 41
R: 12 4
S: 0.2341 0.9438
L: 8202 1797
D: 4 1
I: 240 106
N: 240 212
Q: 4 0
V: 0 0
RxQueue: 72 0
TxQueue: 18 0
G.INP Framing: 18 0
G.INP lookback: 18 0
RRC bits: 0 24
Bearer 1
MSGc: 90 -6
B: 0 0
M: 2 0
T: 2 0
R: 16 0
S: 10.6667 0.0000
L: 24 0
D: 1 0
I: 32 0
N: 32 0
Q: 0 0
V: 0 0
RxQueue: 0 0
TxQueue: 0 0
G.INP Framing: 0 0
G.INP lookback: 0 0
RRC bits: 0 0
Counters
Bearer 0
OHF: 0 1070309
OHFErr: 1 1177
RS: 712690728 1223660
RSCorr: 77620969 1857
RSUnCorr: 0 0
Bearer 1
OHF: 49735221 0
OHFErr: 0 0
RS: 298410957 0
RSCorr: 4745 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0
Retransmit Counters
rtx_tx: 1169336716 0
rtx_c: 1600112 0
rtx_uc: 4 0
G.INP Counters
LEFTRS: 1 0
minEFTR: 30974 0
errFreeBits: 376947775 0
Bearer 0
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 324539567 0
Data Cells: 634360013 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
Bearer 1
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 0 0
Data Cells: 0 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
ES: 1 871
SES: 0 0
UAS: 25 25
AS: 798883
Bearer 0
INP: 49.00 0.00
INPRein: 1.00 0.00
delay: 0 0
PER: 0.00 9.71
OR: 0.01 26.35
AgR: 31046.32 7024.93
Bearer 1
INP: 2.50 0.00
INPRein: 2.50 0.00
delay: 0 0
PER: 16.06 0.01
OR: 47.81 0.01
AgR: 47.81 0.01
Bitswap: 459837/459864 11363/11426
Total time = 1 days 5 hours 55 min 8 sec
FEC: 77620969 1857
CRC: 1 1177
ES: 1 871
SES: 0 0
UAS: 25 25
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 10 min 8 sec
FEC: 42062 0
CRC: 0 1
ES: 0 1
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 61802 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 5 hours 55 min 8 sec
FEC: 1289045 154
CRC: 0 86
ES: 0 57
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
FEC: 4389785 303
CRC: 0 186
ES: 0 144
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Since Link time = 9 days 5 hours 54 min 41 sec
FEC: 77620969 1857
CRC: 1 1177
ES: 1 871
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
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