Entanet are to reduce their off-peak hours to bring them in line with their adsl2+ off peak hours with effect from 2nd Jan 2009.
This will affect users of UKFSN, ADSL24, Vivacity and other resellers.
Current off peak hours are
Mon -Thurs 22:00-08:00.
weekend off peak from Fri 22:00 until Mon 08:00
New off peak hours will be 00:00 to 08:00 7 days a week.
This is a copy of an email sent to Enta Partners
The purpose of this email is to inform you of an important change to Entanet’s existing ADSL products.
Starting Midnight, Friday 2nd January 2009, the off-peak period for all Entanet’s ADSL products will operate between 00:00hrs and 08:00hrs, 7 days a week. Peak hours will therefore operate between 08:00hrs and 00:00hrs, 7 days a week. The new peak and off-peak operating times are being implemented to bring the ADSL products in line with Entanet’s ADSL2+ products.
Where your customers are billed by Entanet we will advise them of this change by email on Friday 19th December 2008. Where you bill your customers directly, we recommend you advise them of this change as per your own terms and conditions, noting the date from which the change will apply.
Whilst the above probably wont affect their lower users, it could impact on those who currently rely on the weekend off peak to say within the hard cap.
Quite frankly the move isnt too surprising, over the past few months its not been unusual to see some of their centrals to go down to the minimum ALT figures, during weekends and off-peak hours.
Over the past few months observers of Enta, will have also noticed that other changes have been happening too.
~ The Alt reduced from 2Mbps to 1Mbps.
~ Slower speeds reported during the peak times
~ Enta changing their set-up so try overcome the central pipe allocation.
Theres also been concerns raised over the fact that long promised new centrals (7+8) havent appeared as yet.
I havent been tracking the time scales but originally central 7 was supposed to have been scheduled for February 2007
The following is a quote from their Chief Technical Officer about 14 months ago.
Anyway I just asked BT to turn up the next 155Mb segment on Friday, so that should make the problem go away for a while longer.
That leaves us with 6 * 155Mb segments to last until central 7 gets here around the beginning of February and at about 1 every 3-4 weeks we should be OK. We will also have the first few exchanges of the 21cn roll out by then.
In all fairness to Enta, there have been delays and problems with 21CN that were outside their control, but the majority of these should now be resolved.
