Do BT Retail offer ADSL2+

[PhilipD]

Hi

That packet loss looks like it is your end, i.e with your line.

You have a very long line and are pushing it extremely hard. The longer the line the more margin you are likely to need, and the packet loss is likely caused by something happening along the route of your line, for example a car or motorcycle that isn't suppressed probably causing impulse noise.

Assuming there is no line fault, I suspect if there were you'd be getting lots of disconnections rather than packet loss, you need to use the tools at your disposal, where are interleaving and a higher SNR margin. With FastPath on a line that sort of length packet loss is to be expected and I can't see any magical cure for the physics of line length.

Regards

Phil

[jackster]

It looks like BT are just beginning to offer ADSL2+ to their customers:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...-for-free.html

[browni]

Originally Posted by BT

BT will start offering the upgrade to 20 megabits per second "within weeks" to any customer that contacts it, even those on its cheapest package, which costs £15.60 a month.

LMAO, I pay £9.79 pm for the middle O2 package.

No offence intended Jackster and thanks for the heads up on that.

[PhilipD]

Hi

I think most people would get a bigger speed difference if ISPs using the BT platform just kept with ADSL1 but didn't throttle their customers for most of the day. It doesn't need ADSL2+ to double most peoples download speeds, it just takes the removal of those throttles.

It will be upto 20Meg, throttled to 1 or 2 Meg for most of the day and evening no doubt on BT Wholesales platform. The sync speed someone gets is not what decides their download speed these days, unless of course you move to LLU like Be/O2

Regards

Phil

[jackster]

Originally Posted by browni

LMAO, I pay £9.79 pm for the middle O2 package.

No offence intended Jackster and thanks for the heads up on that.

No offence taken, I was thinking something similar about my package compared to BT's offerings