BT Full Fibre 900 (not exactly true..?) Fault? or???

[Lithtech]

On phone now, will get back to you.

[Lithtech]

ok phones up (1st caller was rather nasty and said 3rd party routers don't work with full 900 fibre then he said he's right and i said you're wrong in the end i hung up what a nasty piece of work.

(2nd caller)

Lovely young woman, she did speed tests for me and said you are getting 945mbps and i told her not even close so she said she will get an engineer visit next week.

So Good good.

[iniltous]

If you have a laptop capable of using 1GB speed , connect it directly to the ONT with an ‘standard’ RJ45 and set up a PPPoE session and measure speed , if it’s fine ( and it may well be ) then you have proved that your FTTP is fine and whatever the issue is , isn’t down to your ISP .

 FWIW , it’s a Gb connection but marketed as 900Mb so that those getting around 960Mb , ( the speed a speed tester would show due to ‘overheads’ ) will think it’s better than promised, rather than disappointed at getting 40Mb less than 1GB , 

[Lithtech]

I've got 50m of CAt5E LAYING AROUND, so i might hook that up to the router to my PC (upstairs)

I do wonder is it because i'm using powerline adapters.

but the PS3/4/5 Are direct connected to the router and most i got was 200/ish mbps

[imjolly]

It could easily be a power line adapter problem so you need to try direct with ethernet from ONT to PC and run btspeedtester or fast.com

[mikemod]

As above I would ditch the powerline adapters, I have never seen them do any more than about 150-200Mbps

You will never see 900Mbps or close to it, unless the latest ones have dramatically improved.

[Lithtech · Accepted solution]

Yeah i'll be sorting out the 50m CAT5e tmrz from router upstairs to PC see if that works.

Power Line Adapters could be the bottle neck.

[Lithtech]

OK it was THE POWERLINE Adapters..... just found a spare 30m CAT5e and got 927MBPS 

Good good 

thx for the help guys!
Cheers!!!

[DanielS]

That's brilliant news @Lithtech.

Thanks to everyone that posted.

DanielS

[bulldog147]

Yeah wish BT should advised people not to use powerline adapter. These are nasty of bottleneck.