Copied over from the Gaming forum.....I doubt that these two forums have the same viewers so I felt it best to post in both. Admins, please slap me down if you disagree

On my new ISP (Plusnet) I have the option of turning interleaving off myself, but it can't then be set back on again.

I've always had interleaving off until about 2 months ago when BT applied it automatically. In a support call to my old ISP Eclipse, I was told that interleaving is only applied when the exchange equipment picks up line issues and it is applied automatically.

Obviously this is having the standard effect on my ping; it's increased from about 15-20 to about 40-60. No big shakes, but I still wonder how much of a difference turning it off will make. Sure, my ping will go down....but could I then start suffering bad loss issues?

Has anyone else turned off their interleaving and wished they hadn't? What effect did it have on non gaming applications? I imagine that streaming could be quite badly affected.

Incidentally, I can't see why there should be an issue which requires interleaving to solve anyway. I live about 1/8th of a mile from my exchange anyway, I can practially see it from my house!

Our ISP (also plus.net) turned interleaving on for us ages ago when we were having trouble. No mention of the fact that it might be automatic.

After they said they had changed it and I restarted the modem the modem did report that interleaving was on. Didn't bother checking ping times or anything - we don't do gaming so it's not particularly important.

However, since then we've had the whole line between our house and the exchange replaced and it's still on. There's obviously no reason for it to be on, and I haven't asked for it to be turned off but I get the impression that ISPs like it turned by default.