Hi, I’ve been a customer for well over a year now. I was originally getting 80/20 when I first joined. The broadband was really responsive as well. Then, a few months ago, I upgraded to gfast. I was getting about 120/30, but the speed was very erratic and the broadband was very unresponsive. Also, I would get disconnections and then it would resync under 80mb. I downgraded back to 80/20, and also went back to the original smart hub from the smart hub 2.
Since downgrading, just like with gfast, my speeds are very erratic. I sync at 80/20, but don’t always get close to this on a speed test. Usually when I download something, it will be slow for a bit, then speed up. YouTube is very frustrating, it always buffers for roughly the first 30 seconds of a video, then works just fine. Also, because the broadband is still very unresponsive, gaming isn’t amazing, and I tend to lag quite a lot. By the way, my Xbox is connect via Ethernet and speed tests and downloads are done on my laptop via Ethernet. Also, general web browsing can sometimes be quite slow. It might take 10 seconds, sometimes longer, to load a webpage. But once it starts loading, it loads it instantly.
I thought it might have just fixed itself on it’s own, but it’s been over 3 months since I downgraded back to FTTC. I previously had an MK3 prefiltered master socket, now I have the gfast master socket 5c, which I was told was needed for gfast, and would be fine to downgrade back to FTTC. I have just plugged a microfilter into the test socket, and I am still having the same issues. What can I do to get this fixed? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks a lot.
BT Smart Hub Manager
This is a list of your BT Smart Hub settings and current statistics.
BT Hub 6A
+084316+NQ71530223
SG4B1000E020
26-Mar-2020
1.0
1.115.0
0 Days, 0 Hours 27 Minutes 13 Seconds
20.00 Mbps / 80.00 Mbps
30499 / 87183
15.3 dB / 7.2 dB
16.7 dB
12.4 dB / 16.7 dB
0/38
G_993_2_ANNEX_B
Fast Path
343 MB Uploaded / 261 MB Downloaded
bthomehub@btbroadband.com
Active
BTHub6-ZQZR
Smart (Channel 1)
BTHub6-ZQZR
Smart (Channel 36)
WPA2 (Recommended)
Mode 1
On
F4:6B:EF:28:4F:E5
-
7.33.1
Hi, that was when I connected the router to the test socket. Thanks.
Is your connection still stable since you connected to the test socket?
can you post current hub stats
As far as I know, you can't disable IPv6 on the smart hub, but I did change the IPv6 address allocation mode from "stateless" to "off".
Router Stats:
BT Smart Hub Manager
This is a list of your BT Smart Hub settings and current statistics.
BT Hub 6A
+084316+NQ71530223
SG4B1000E020
26-Mar-2020
1.0
1.115.0
1 Days, 19 Hours 32 Minutes 48 Seconds
20.00 Mbps / 80.00 Mbps
30499 / 87364
15.3 dB / 7.2 dB
16.7 dB
12.5 dB / 16.7 dB
0/38
G_993_2_ANNEX_B
Fast Path
26 GB Uploaded / 16 GB Downloaded
bthomehub@btbroadband.com
Active
BTHub6-ZQZR
Smart (Channel 1)
BTHub6-ZQZR
Smart (Channel 36)
WPA2 (Recommended)
Mode 1
On
F4:6B:EF:28:4F:E5
-
7.33.1
so looks like the move to test socket is helping stability with almost 2 days uptime. if so then need to look at master faceplate and any internal wiring
yes, that's the setting to disable ipv6 allocation- interested to know if it fixes your issues..
stateless- device assigns its own ipv6 address ..hopefully unique!
stateful- dhcp (v6) assigned- currently not supported/enabled by BT on my router
off- no v6 address allocation (disabled)- I needed to restart hub to clear any existing v6 device assignments
-there was a FW update recently that got applied to my hub6, so not sure if the default settings were changed relating to ipv6 which resulted in my problems..
BTW- not advocating using ipv4 over ipv6 as really everyone should be using ipv6 where possible..trouble is, some legacy devices don't support ipv6 so believe only way is to assign static ips /disable dhcp (v4) for those that don't if enabling ipv6 for the ones that do--suspect a device that is using both ipv4 & v6 is going to cause problems somewhere, some how..maybe someone smarter than me knows how to configure things to support both concurrently but my experience has never been good if doing so
Hi, my broadband doesn’t usually disconnect anyway, it was because I started using the test socket. Usually just get 1-3 disconnects a week at most. I’m not great with electronics, what do you mean exactly by look at the master socket and wiring? Do you think the master socket 5c could be the problem? If I recall correctly, I didn’t have this problem when I had the older mk3 master socket. Thanks.
Some people have had problems with the new style master socket mainly because the faceplate was not clipped in place securely. Previous faceplate had screws holding them in place