Plusnet removes the 20Mb FTTC download cap

I have been more than happy with the FTTC service that I’ve had from Plusnet on trial for the past few months now; even with the 20Mbps download cap that they placed on the service to start with.

During my activation day, Dave (from Plusnet) rang me to check that everything was up and working correctly and informed me that at their network does not see any difference between ADSL2+ and FTTC based customers, Plusnet would need to implement new profiles allow user to take advantage of the additional speed.  In the mean time, FTTC trail customers would get a theoretical cap of around 20Mbps due to being IP profiled at 21000 in their network.

Over the last week, Plusnet have appoved a configuration change that removes this limit.  While it still does not show up correctly in the members web portal (it actually shows a drop in IP connection rate), FTTC users will be able to get their maximum capable speed (up to 40Mbps) and they are already prepared for FTTP customers to come online and get their up to 100Mbps connections.

It will be interesting to see where the actual contention points in the network not lay.  Is it your home, cabinet, exchange, BT backhaul, ISP, Internet or the webserver ???

For now, the new profile lift has as good as doubled my download rate through Plusnet, I’m now seeing the full IP profile speed to BT have shown me at since I took on the trial; 38717 Kbps

Tags: adsl2+, Basingstoke, Broadband, FTTC, FTTP, Internet, Plusnet

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