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I do use gas and was certainly the biggest contributor to the savings when I first switched over. Even during the colder months the tracker price was far below the price cap tariff prices.  Perhaps if the wholesale prices keep coming down the difference between them will narrow but unless the prices shoot up the tracker should otherwise always be cheaper than a fixed tariff as they bake in a chunky cost of insuring/hedging your tariff against price rises which gets added into your unit cost, which they don’t have to do with the tracker as we’d just have to pay it or switch tariff.

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This site has historical prices for the tariff for comparison

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Has to be done.  The tracker tariff in my eyes is amazing, the fairest way to get energy.  In some respects I don’t mind paying more for it if the wholesale costs shoot up (after all why should they pay for my energy when we have to pay what we use for other things, like fuel). on the basis that I benefit immediately as the wholesale costs come down, which this tariff provides.  It seems criminal that today i’m paying 18p/kwh for elec and others on ‘price cap’ tariffs are paying, what, double that?

 

Even then there’s room for improvement as the wholesale price of elec is affected majorly by the wholesale cost of gas.  Given most days well over 50% of our elec comes from renewables these days they are looking to decouple those prices but I don’t think we’ll see that for years as it involves a whole market shakeup.  When that happens elec costs should drop a lot more.

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No the tracker is the one price for the whole day.  They do have other ones like intelligent octopus or octopus go which offer cheaper rates at night, but I think you might need to have an ev to take those up.

They do have another tariff Agile octopus that changes every half hour based on wholesale prices, that one can actually dip below zero so you get paid to use energy at various points. It does vary a lot more than the tracker does though.

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UK Sentinel wrote:

Good point, just had a quick look, Octopus Tracker product/service is available from the 1st July so worth another look as I believe wholesale prices are still going in the right direction. From what I can recall, only Loyal Octopus 12M Fixed or Flexible Octopus tariffs was available for us to select at the time. Was your tracker via the beta for Octopus?

 

I think it was the beta, i’ve been on it since around feb time. There was one day recently, saturday i think, there elec was down to 8p/kwh.  Went back up to about 18 the following day but even so, massive savings.

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Have you considered their tracker tariff?  That’s saved me a fortune this year

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Nice one thanks for checking, hopefully they can patch it soon

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Nice one. I had a look through the CVEs on the asus advisory site and some of them appeared to be resolved in prior updates and some not (the 2023 ones in particular).  Would be good to know hopefully that the dsl router isn’t abandoned for updates, it seems to miss a fair few compared to it’s sister device the RT.

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I can recommend Nord VPN, been with them for ages, found them always reliable and well priced.

Their ‘hack’ was a lot of hot air really, a config file on a single server in Finland was exposed (not user data), and they quickly went to lengths to make sure that the same thing wouldn’t happen again. Between a mix of how they use shared datacentres and also how they deploy their vpn servers.  I looked into it quite extensively at the time and was quite satisfied it wasn’t a problem and they acted very swiftly to avoid a recurrence.

I’m sure others are good services but I find Nord good so far.  I like to have a few countries profiles set up in my asus router to cater for devices that can’t use a vpn app (such as TVs etc) I can flip on to cater for those as necessary.

 

You can get referrals for additional free time from them too.

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Still 1 on the downstream, although i’m told that might change over the next few nights as even though they didn’t do a dlm reset they said to expect dlm to kick in after it’s monitored a much better line.

I have noticed that G.INP is now enabled on the upstream which it never used to be either.  Although this was enabled this morning after my line dropped (before their works) and remained on after they moved me to a different cable this afternoon, so it may end up turning off again.  I’d like to see it stay on though given the benefits, but it was always off until today.

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Interesting development.  Openreach came back and moved my physical line from one of the two cables which run from the junction box to the cab which was heavily subscribed, to the other which was far less used and far less noisy.

 

At this point my line came back up and synched far higher than it ever has before 72mbps down and 17.5 mbps up, as opposed to 65ish mbps which was my prior all time high, and 47mbps which was my current synch today, & never went above 8mbps up before. and other random issues I had were gone. Also, the synch is now far closer between the asus and the Sky router.

 

The takeaway I have from this is that the Asus is far worse now at dealing with noisy lines than the cheapo Sky router is, given the disparity between the synch speed when I was on the noisier cable.  I would hope there is something Asus can do to improve their noise handling on the router as there is clearly some improvements they could make.

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So DLM has done it’s thing and it’s settled roughly back to where it had before.

The behaviour of the ASUS router is the same though in that it syncs a fair bit lower than the Sky one. The main difference is that the asus one gives an INP-REIN value of 1.  I can’t confirm at the moment what that value is for the Sky router currently as the UI doesn’t show it and need to speak with them.

The sync values as of today for the ASUS router is 51mbps and the Sky router is 62mbps.  Strange.

 

 

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They could reduce it. But they’re including the costs of not only bailing out the failed energy companies, but also the people who couldn’t or wouldn’t pay their bills. Ofgem decided it was in the energy companies best interest to have everyone pay non-payers bills than have them chase people who owed in the normal ways. They also changed the way they calculate the standing charge to give the companies more margin – it’s scandalous how anti consumer it all is.

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It’s a shame though that standing charges are going up still, and they’re already sky high.

Octopus tracker is the way to go, the unit prices are almost back to normal on that (for now). If anyone needs an octopus referral for some free bill credit, let me know.

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Are there any guidelines for how many FEC/CRC/ES/SES errors are ‘ok’ and don’t bother the DLM process?

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