BRAS Profile .... Entanet

Hi

I'm on Entanet with UKFSN and my profile had been stable for months at
6500kbps, and I was able to download at line speeds.

In the past few days I had noticed a speed drop so I did a BT speed check, I
found that my profile had been changed down to 3000kbps.

Not sure why this is but I would like to get it back up to speed.

I have contacted UKFSN but I have not got a reply.

Any ideas how to change my profile?

Thanx

Uncle Nobby wrote:
> I'm on Entanet with UKFSN and my profile had been stable for months at
> 6500kbps, and I was able to download at line speeds.
>
> In the past few days I had noticed a speed drop so I did a BT speed
> check, I found that my profile had been changed down to 3000kbps.
>
> Not sure why this is but I would like to get it back up to speed.
>
> I have contacted UKFSN but I have not got a reply.
>
> Any ideas how to change my profile?

What is your sync rate? The profile is set by BT based on the stable
sync rate. Nothing enta/UKFSN specific, but related to the
quality/length of your telephone line, your internal wiring and filters.

Your router should be able to tell you your sync rate. You can see the
best potential sync rate by connecting the router directly to the test
socket within your master socket.

"Paul Cupis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Uncle Nobby wrote:
>> I'm on Entanet with UKFSN and my profile had been stable for months at
>> 6500kbps, and I was able to download at line speeds.
>>
>> In the past few days I had noticed a speed drop so I did a BT speed
>> check, I found that my profile had been changed down to 3000kbps.
>>
>> Not sure why this is but I would like to get it back up to speed.
>>
>> I have contacted UKFSN but I have not got a reply.
>>
>> Any ideas how to change my profile?
>
> What is your sync rate? The profile is set by BT based on the stable sync
> rate. Nothing enta/UKFSN specific, but related to the quality/length of
> your telephone line, your internal wiring and filters.
>
> Your router should be able to tell you your sync rate. You can see the
> best potential sync rate by connecting the router directly to the test
> socket within your master socket.

The router says

Data rate down 7936
Up 448

My profile has been 6500 for years, it is only recently that it has dropped.

Uncle Nobby wrote:
>
> "Paul Cupis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:faq49q$2pg0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Uncle Nobby wrote:
>>> I'm on Entanet with UKFSN and my profile had been stable for months
>>> at 6500kbps, and I was able to download at line speeds.
>>>
>>> In the past few days I had noticed a speed drop so I did a BT speed
>>> check, I found that my profile had been changed down to 3000kbps.
>>>
>>> Not sure why this is but I would like to get it back up to speed.
>>>
>>> I have contacted UKFSN but I have not got a reply.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to change my profile?
>>
>> What is your sync rate? The profile is set by BT based on the stable
>> sync rate. Nothing enta/UKFSN specific, but related to the
>> quality/length of your telephone line, your internal wiring and filters.
>>
>> Your router should be able to tell you your sync rate. You can see the
>> best potential sync rate by connecting the router directly to the test
>> socket within your master socket.
>
> The router says
>
> Data rate down 7936
> Up 448
>
> My profile has been 6500 for years, it is only recently that it has
> dropped.

You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.

On 26-Aug-2007, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
> you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.

How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

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>
> On 26-Aug-2007, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
>> you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.
>
> How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

When I had an intermittent noisy line, my BRAS profile kept changing between
<1Mb-6Mb approx every few days, but when it had been fixed it stayed low
<1Mb for a couple of days then moved up in a couple of steps over a day or
two to my now rock steady 6Mb and has stayed there now for the last year.

On Sunday 26 August 2007 8:25 am, in MID
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((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:

>
> On 26-Aug-2007, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
>> you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.
>
> How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

I believe the official line is "up to 3 days".
--
Ian...

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> On 26-Aug-2007, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
>> you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.
>
> How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

I have just had maintenance on my line at the exchange and my profile
dropped to 4500 on the 23rd by the morning of the 25th it was still 4500 by
afternoon it was back to its 7150 value. Sync was 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 8128
kbps(DOWN-STREAM and values via BT speedtester page.

Gio

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
> > you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.
>
> How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

It should settle within a week.

Graham

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:25:14 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>
>On 26-Aug-2007, Paul Cupis <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> You must have had a low sync event to reduce your profile to 3000. If
>> you maintain the higher sync rate, your profile will increase in time.
>
>How long does "in time" usually take, a day, week, or several months?

BT recently (7th August) changed the way the sync rate will be
changed.

I've copied the following BT information from an ISP's web site ...


BT’s briefing to ISPs stated :-
“The current Max logic rules mean higher sync rates are required to be
sustained for 3 days to invoke an upwards BRAS profile move,
irrespective of the degree of line rate change.

Adaptive Max Logic will look at the percentage of the line rate
increase to determine the period before an upward BRAS profile change
is implemented. A small percentage increase in line rate may mean a
wait of up to 5 days to change the BRAS profile, but where a larger
percentage change occurs, the BRAS profile could change within a very
short time (4-6 hours). These timescales are indicative and may vary
depending upon the load on our systems.

This way any lines that have dropped to an artificially low line rate
for any reason ( e.g..thunderstorm) and revert to a higher line rate
soon after may only need to wait a short time for the higher BRAS
profile to be invoked.”

--
Ian

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