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Implementation time gigabit broadband

minibob
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I upgraded about 6 months ago from 300mb to 500mb next morning the speed picked up straight away with no problems. I thought I would take advantage of the sale ending Thursday and upgrade again to gigabit. I got a text message 8am Friday morning saying the new package was live. My speed download and upload its exactly the same as before. Tested it all day Friday all day Saturday and yesterday morning no change. I rang the team and they said it will take ten days of testing to get new speed as they have to stabilise the line, but I don’t understand how you can stabilise a line of you aren’t actually sending through the new connection speed. I have a horrible feeling something hasn’t been done to change my connection speed and I’m being told after calling tech support running a Speedtest.net makes my line show as unstable which makes zero sense it also shouldn’t take 10 days for the new speed when it says it’ll be available after midnight. 

My connection hasn’t moved from the 460-500 download and 50mb upload I’ve been running at as months so there’s def zero change between packages 

Any idea of what I need to ask for to get someone to actually check it’s been done properly? 

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XRaySpeX
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EE Community Star

Routers are not pre-logged for any prearticular speed. They will handle what they can handle!

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To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone

ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP
minibob
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New router arrived still not achieving over 500mb. Rang tech support their speed test not giving over 500 either. Open reach 2nd level engineer engaged, line to ONT 947mb speed. Engineer now booked again for Monday under the thought of replacing ONT. So it continues, worrying I’ll be outside my 14 day cooling off period soon and not great to be paying for a service I’m not getting the benefit of as my speed was the same at 500mb package! 

XRaySpeX
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@minibob wrote:

under the thought of replacing ONT. 


LOL! Can't be ONT! You just showed it is capable of 1000 Meg. It's so obviously the router.

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To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone

ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP
minibob
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A bit of an update to my case as things are still on going. Two engineer visits two routers. Still not fixed. It’s then moved to another support team (cube team possibly?) they think that the VLAN server is either one, faulty so not giving me correct bandwidth or two, maxed on capacity so either need move to a new one or create a new one to allow me full speeds. This was Friday and I’m due an update tomorrow, over the weekend nothings changed so it continues. Over two weeks still 400mb max dl speed. 

Leanne_T
EE Community Support Team

Thanks for keeping us updated @minibob

I hope this is resolved soon for you. 

Leanne.