Home Hub 3 - Slow Booting - min 10 mins to get a u...

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My Infinity setup is a rocketship. Needed a change to an 'N' class PCI wireless card in the PC, but it is smokey.....reliable 20+ MB/sec download, 7MB/sec upload. And it hasn't been installed for 10 days yet, and the engineer reckons that the service settles down properly after baout 10 days.  Yeah, right
The only blot on the electronic horizon is that my HomeHub3 takes ages to connect once it's powered on. I reckon that the minimum time form switching it on to a useable broadband connection at the PC is 10 minutes, and generally it's 15-20 minutes.  And that includes seveeral minutes of messing about with the completley useless browser pages that the HH3 puts up ..... giving rickall info except sometimes it changes the admin username.....and sets it to exaclt what it was before. Duh.
Anyway, it is a pain in the rump to go through this grief every time I start up - every time I want to do a bit of internet shopping or whatever, it's taking longer to start the BB link than to find and order the shopping. Grrrrrrrrr....
Can anyone tell me: is my HH3 DOnald Ducked, or are all of the Infinity connections as scrappy to start as mine?
Yours in Hope...

Answer 1

I was going tosay:
Turning the Active NTE on/off not the HH3 will cause IP profile change via DLM s as that is what maintains the synch rate and ithe IP profile is based on fluctuating synch rates.
Turningthe HH3 off will simply drop the PPP session and give you a new IP on restart
However that's only partially true.
DLM as writtten up in sin 498 is based on the synch rates and sets the profiles on BT openreaches ssytems hwoever sin 495 which describes the BT Wholesale side goes on to say:
Unlike other WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) access technologies, WBC FTTC accesses use the PPP (“Point-to-Point
Protocol”) session establishment to inform the BT Wholesale BRAS of the Openreach line
rate. It is therefore essential that the PPP session is re-started every time the VDSL line retrains.
To ensure this, the PPP / L2TP timeout values must be set to less than 20 seconds.
ie everytime your HH3 establishs a new PPP session the BRAs isinformed of the current synch speed. Given that (certainly judging by my event logs) the PPP is remotely reset on a daily basis then IMHO turning it off manually makes no difference.
Mind you I can never understand why someone would would turn their router off before going to bed ;o)
DISCLAIMER: although I work in the industry I do not work for BT and any opinions given are purely my own.