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On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 18:22 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Kevin Lucas wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 21:01 +0100, James Kilty wrote: > >> On 21/10/11 19:01, Simon Waters wrote: > >>> Noted that: > >>> > >>> Exeter has FTTC in some areas. > >>> > >>> Sowton offers C&W LLU. Sowton previously wasn't upgraded despite the > >>> huge number of business customers because the uptake wasn't huge - I > >>> presume that someone else has cables (Virgin?) around the industrial > >>> estate - so Sowton customers with BT are still on 8Mbps maximum. After > >>> some searching, and reading about corporate takeovers and failed deals, > >>> it seems basically this means Demon Internet and a few other reseller > >>> will sell you ADSL 2+ for the exchange. > >> > >> Interesting. We have FTTC the nearest of which is in Townshend, less > >> than a mile away. Plusnet say they could give me 6Mbps - I get 3Mbps at > >> a good time with ADSL - well my router sometimes says this - I mostly > >> get a steady 2Mbps download. The exchange (Leedstown) is not set up for > >> ADSL2+ and if it was, I might get more than the FTTC would. So Demon > >> cannot upgrade me as they don't do it from fibre. The exchange was one > >> of the first in Cornwall with few users. I wonder if any have signed up > >> to the faster rates, especially in the village of Leedstown, which is > >> fairly compact and must have less than 100 houses. > >> > >> I could do with a faster line as wife and daughter stream TV and films. > >> They can't do it at the same time. > > Have you mtr installed? I think it runs in a GUI or command line? > > it gives you an idea where the lossy routers are > > if you can run it in cron say every hour and point the output to a file > > you can see what times are bad for you and where the errors are. > > examples are here > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/finding-out-a-bad-or-simply-overloaded-network-link-with-linuxunix-oses.html > > It's a good tool, but what you are you going to do with the output of it? > > Because basically, there's f-all you can do, short of switching ISPs > if/when you think there's an issue somewhere. just the point of the thread I thought! > > Gordon > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq