BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[DirtyJester]

I don't have Infinity but I have normal BT broadband, BT Home Hub 2.0 :Fibre. Now I get 35mb download and around 2mb upload however when I want to download torrent's im only getting around 3.0kb/s download! I was doing some reseach and I found you had to foward ports or something like that? How do you do this, and how do you get the best download speed for torrents? Help me please. I didn't want to create a new thread lol

You sure you're not on Infinity ? That d/load seems mighty fast.

 

[davetrace1]

You sure you're not on Infinity ? That d/load seems mighty fast.

Yes, I was quoted on their website I would receive 8mb upload speeds. I just need to know how to configure my BT Hub/internet to get the best torrent download speeds and atm I'm getting around 3.0kb/s resulting in downloads taking around 6 days (sigh)

 

[PistolPete]

ADSL2+ is up to 24Mbps. Either you are on fibre or your speedtest is messed up.

 

[davetrace1]

Yes I am on fibre, but Not BT Infinity. Here is a video of my speedtest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsUzftbp7g
Anyone know how to configure your hub so you can actually download torrents with a good speed?

 

[V_R]

No you are on Infinity, its Option one or whatever they call it? (the 2Mb upload cap one)

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25633

 

[davetrace1]

Ahh right thankyou, does anyone know how to configure the hub to download torrents fast?

 

[muon]

Ahh right thankyou, does anyone know how to configure the hub to download torrents fast?

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

 

[cp88]

You will have a 40gig cap, so you might want to be careful on how much you download.

 

[Donkeyfumbler]

Anyone noticed issues with the Home Hub 3 and some wired devices connecting at 10mbps instead of 100mbps?

A few people (including me) having this issue, as per this thread:

http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed...-only-10Mb/td-p/238589/highlight/false/page/3

Baiscally, at some point both my Xbox360 and PS3 will stop connecting at 100mbps and only connect at 10mbps until I reboot the homehub, at which point they both go back to 100mbps (usually for a few days, and then they drop down again). Seems to be no pattern as to why they drop when they do. Very annoying though, as I mainly use both to watch movies and TV streamed from a Netgear NAS.

 

[KIA]

Ahh right thankyou, does anyone know how to configure the hub to download torrents fast?

Not possible. They traffic shape torrent downstream during off-peak and upstream 24/7. You can forward the torrent client port which will make you "connectable" to other peers.

 

[cp88]

Not possible. They traffic shape torrent downstream during off-peak and upstream 24/7. You can forward the torrent client port which will make you "connectable" to other peers.

They don't shape upload 24/7, not recently at least anyway. I've been uploading at 1MB/s often lately (off peak of-course)

 

[varkanoid]

Anyone noticed issues with the Home Hub 3 and some wired devices connecting at 10mbps instead of 100mbps?

The Home Hub is pants get a proper router!

 

[davetrace1]

Not possible. They traffic shape torrent downstream during off-peak and upstream 24/7. You can forward the torrent client port which will make you "connectable" to other peers.

Really! So I will be stuck downloading torrents at around 10kb/s - 25kb/s on BT broadband when I have a 35mb download rate! Why can't you configure the hub then? BT want to 'protect' their image by limiting torrent downloading or something? I just come back from my friends house who has sky broadband, his download speed was around 3mb and wireless and he was downloading a torrent at about 300kb/s! So frustrating!

 

[.Griff.]

You're missing the point. "Configuring" the Homehub has nothing to do with BT's policy on traffic shaping.

Rightly or wrongly BT Retail are traffic shaping torrents, most probably as they don't want people saturating their network with P2P/Torrent use.

They make no secret about this so if torrents are that important to you then you should have chosen another FTTC/VDSL2 provider.

 

[Rroff]

Last time I checked - tho may have changed downstream torrent traffic was throttled to 2Mbit between 3pm and 5pm, ~100kbit from 5pm til midnight and then 2Mbit again until about 1-2am at which point its unthrottled. Upstream torrent traffic was throttled dynamically based on network load except during peak time ~5pm til midnight when I believe its also capped at ~100kbit.

Personally I don't have a problem with that generally except if a game updater is incorrectly flagged as P2P traffic and your trying to download a 300MB patch in the evening so you can relax and play after work it kinda sucks.

 

[davetrace1]

And why doesn't Netgear routers work with the BT hub! ggrrrrrr The only good thing is downloading steam demos I can download at around 4.4mb

 

[cp88]

And why doesn't Netgear routers work with the BT hub! ggrrrrrr The only good thing is downloading steam demos I can download at around 4.4mb

Newsgroups : - )

 

[area51_for_psx]

I am getting speeds on 6meg on adsl at the moment.

Have been quoted 8.5meg for Infinity with there checker. Anyone know how accurate the checker is as am thinking about going for it but not too sure if ill only get a 2meg increase.

 

[cp88]

If you are estimated 8.5mbit with Infinity they won't sell it to you, I think you can get 'Advanced Fibre Support' tho

Their estimates are poor, you'd probably get the full 40meg. If the checker says no tho, they won't even think about selling you normal Infinity. There is a fair few people that couldn't order Infinity but could get 'Advanced Fibre Support', they ended up with full sync.

Heres a decent graph, find out where your nearest green cab is.

 

[area51_for_psx]

My exchange is 2.2km away and the nearest green cab would be less than 1km away. So as the infinity checker says i can get 8.5meg I should phone and see if they will give me advanced fibre support?