Hey so I am a new BT Customer since the start of my services my connection has been unstable and always dropping. There have been 5 engineer visits till date, I was called by a manager who sent me a new hub now, the hub is here but the problem is still there, now over and top of that my speed has gone down considerably to 29 Mbps. I am expected to pay for a service which didn’t work at all. I was offered a complete refund for the first month, but I was still charged my connection problems haven’t been fixed what kind of service is this, you guys chat so much about your customer service and satisfaction but it’s absolutely miserable and frankly trash. No replies , no proper fixes and from the start of my services that would be 2nd of September I haven’t had a complete 24 hours of service, when talking about compensation they say we don’t provide compensation for dropped connections, which is understandable but their connection is basically non working because of the frequency of connection drops. I am frankly tired and completely given up and don’t know what to do.
Post the connection stats from the hub. Advanced settings/technical log/information.
Try a quiet line test, 17070 option 2, best with corded phone. The line should be silent between announcements. May get a dull hum with cordless phone.
as it says when you joined that is is a community forum where BT customers help other BT customers with their problems your post does not go to BT
'you Guys' on this forum are all customers just like you and only BT employees are the forum mods
Oh thank you for telling me that
Product name | BT Smart Hub 2 |
Serial number | +091298+2032014244 |
Fireware version | v0.17.01.12312-BT (Mon May 11 18:49:53 2020) |
Board version | R01 |
GUI version | 1.56 15_02_2019 |
DSL uptime | 0 days 0 Hours 22 Mins 15 Secs |
Data rate | 5.0 Mbps / 30.0 Mbps |
Maximum Data rate | 25.7 Mbps / 88.3 Mbps |
Noise margin | 22.1/22.9 |
Line attenuation | 8.3/10.9 |
Signal attenuation | 6.6/12.2 |
VLAN id | 101 |
Upstream error control | Off |
Downstream error control | Off |
Data sent / received | 13.1 MB Uploaded / 365.1 MB Downloaded |
Broadband username | bthomehub@btbroadband.com |
BT Wi-Fi | Active |
2.4 GHz wireless network name | BT-F3AKTN |
2.4 GHz wireless channel | Smart (Channel6) |
5 GHz wireless network name | BT-F3AKTN |
5 GHz wireless channel | Smart (Channel44) |
Wireless Security | WPA2 (Recommanded) |
Wireless mode | Mode 1 |
Firewall | On |
MAC address | EC:6C:9A:60:37:73 |
Software variant | - |
Boot loader | 0.1.7-BT (Thu Nov 30 09:45:22 2017) |
Without a phone you can't check for line noise.
Connect directly to the test socket with filter, if the drops continue you're just going to have to bite the bullet and ring in and insist on an Openreach engineer visit.
Oh I see, thank you. I’ll order a phone then and then see what’s up
No need to spend more than £10 on a basic wired phone, just to check for noise. Its also useful in an emergency.