BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

No, it's FTTH.

More information including extreme closeups of all the bits and pieces HERE. You'll need to scroll and move onto the next page in the thread.

FTTC setups have no extra wiring on the poles. Why would they since it's FTTC i.e. the copper wire from the CAB to your house is shared. With FTTH you get a separate cable all the way to your property. You can see the separate cable going into the modem on the thread I linked. Note also the lack of a fancy BT socket, it's just a standard one with the new cable poking out. Messy job if you ask me!
 
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It seems that in certain parts of greater London, they are offering FTTH as a free upgrade, 100Mb, i think the idea is that it saves them sending a guy out again. It seems that they are very close to announcing the 100meg update, though it will most likely be in 2012 now.
 
Master Socket Quandry

Having Infinity installed Friday and I have been reading up about master sockets and where some people have had them moved etc.

In my case the master socket is downstairs in the dining room with 3 extensions running off it. One extension goes upstairs to a small bedroom where the PC and laptop is. Its situated on the skirting board. Then I have an extension cable running under the carpet to other side of room where the router is as that is where the plug socket is.

My current speedtest shows 5.80mbps as current situation. So I did a test and plugged router into skirting board socket (negating last extension) and it was 5.80mbps. I then went downstairs and plugged router in to master socket and get 5.80mbps. So you would reckon that the extension wiring is good.

My quandry is do I leave master socket as is in dining room and use the HH3 wifi connection or do I see if the BT Engineer will move the master socket to the skirting board extension in the small bedroom and then use ethernet instead of wifi like I do now ?
 
I'd go for moving the master socket - get the fastest speed possible. That is what I'll be asking the engineer to do when he comes to install mine. Everyone else can use the WiFi as they only use the broadband for surfing.
 
uvarvu said:
No, it's FTTH.

More information including extreme closeups of all the bits and pieces HERE. You'll need to scroll and move onto the next page in the thread.

FTTC setups have no extra wiring on the poles. Why would they since it's FTTC i.e. the copper wire from the CAB to your house is shared. With FTTH you get a separate cable all the way to your property. You can see the separate cable going into the modem on the thread I linked. Note also the lack of a fancy BT socket, it's just a standard one with the new cable poking out. Messy job if you ask me!
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Cool link.

Have a look at this too: http://www.silicon.com/technology/n...bre-broadband-gets-inside-your-home-39746548/

15 pages detailing exactly how they get the fibre from one place to another, how they wire up the DSLAMs and then finally how they wire up the end user. Pictures ahoy, so you have to click through the pages to read it all :)

cool bit from that article I linked said:
Individual fibres are fed into trays on the splitter and spliced onto a silver filter using a technique called fusion splicing.

"You have one fibre going in and then, through a miracle of modern science, that is split 32 ways so you've got 32 output legs coming out from there," said a BT engineer.

Each of the fibres is capable of feeding 32 customers but BT only uses 30 of the outputs, leaving two spare for "maintenance purposes", he adds.
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I've had an interesting time with my infinity order. I’m moving back to BT for both my landline calls and broadband from O2.

I got a phonecall from the infinity team the day after placing my order to say that they'd need to temporally cancel the infinity side of my order until the migration of my phone service is complete from O2 back to BT. They need the line to be in BT hands before they can process the infinity order further, they've set a flag to contact me on the 13th July to re-instate the infinity order.

My equipment order is still due for delivery on Friday and the infinity team were confident they'd be able to keep my original install date of next Tuesday. Guess I'll find out tomorrow!
 
At the moment I live my Infinity connection, been rock solid, no issues for a while now, most problems been ironed out, I would never go back to an adsl connection now, forget it.. just rubbish compared.
 
Would any infinity users be kind enough to ping to 46.249.40.136 via cmd prompt and tell me what pings they are getting?

Thanks in advance
 
C:\Users\>ping 46.249.40.136

Pinging 46.249.40.136 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 46.249.40.136:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 34ms

NL Speedtest


Through my VPN:

C:\Users>ping 46.249.40.136

Pinging 46.249.40.136 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=57
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=57
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=57
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 46.249.40.136:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 29ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 29ms
 
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Thank you cp88, I was getting 20ms to that server during the first 10 days of having Infinity installed and now its also hovering around the 33/35 mark
 
nayan89 said:
Would any infinity users be kind enough to ping to 46.249.40.136 via cmd prompt and tell me what pings they are getting?

Thanks in advance
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Pinging 46.249.40.136 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 46.249.40.136:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 27ms


Not too bad considering it's in the Netherlands. For reference, I get 10ms to BBC.

Has your ping in general changed since the first 10 days or just to that particular address?
 
nayan89 said:
Would any infinity users be kind enough to ping to 46.249.40.136 via cmd prompt and tell me what pings they are getting?

Thanks in advance
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\>ping 46.249.40.136

Pinging 46.249.40.136 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=51
Reply from 46.249.40.136: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 46.249.40.136:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 28ms
 
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