BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Nathan said:
that ll be bad if that happens for me, really want fibre :( I may try and ring BT tmw, see if I get through to anyone in the know. They must have dates on when they contract the work out for the outstanding cabs
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I get about 14 Mbit right now so am not too despondent. The only positive i can take out of it is that it gives sky and O2/Be to sort themselves out regarding FTTC.

The FTTP-on-demand sounds like a winner but will have to wait till my cab is sorted!
 
Had a second BT guy out in as many weeks as I'm still struggling with mine, he confirmed that at the socket he was getting 40/10 so it's falling down after that either with the router or the ISP's throughput

Problem is given what most people in this thread are getting I wont be happy now till I start getting over 30mbps consistently especially seeing as the cab is literally a stone's throw from my house
 
Been on Infinity 2 months now, speedtest results in signature.

I've read a lot on the BT Infinity forum and a lot of users are expecting the 80/20 upgrade to be free as virgin doubled their speeds at no extra cost.

I myself wouldn't mind paying a one of upgrade fee if it was reasonable, but if it's £5-£15 more a month I will happily stay on 40/10.
 
Spenty said:
Been on Infinity 2 months now, speedtest results in signature.

I've read a lot on the BT Infinity forum and a lot of users are expecting the 80/20 upgrade to be free as virgin doubled their speeds at no extra cost.

I myself wouldn't mind paying a one of upgrade fee if it was reasonable, but if it's £5-£15 more a month I will happily stay on 40/10.
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Yeah I agree, a one off fee isn't to bad but an extra £5-£15 it begins to become to expensive. Pretty sure Virgin Media are now migrating all that were on the 50mb/100mb to 120mb now? BT should follow suit :)
 
Tom84 said:
Had a second BT guy out in as many weeks as I'm still struggling with mine, he confirmed that at the socket he was getting 40/10 so it's falling down after that either with the router or the ISP's throughput
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Connect your computer directly to the modem.

Do you get full speed during off-peak hours?
 
One spreadsheet says I'm getting FTTP and served by 1 cabinet, and one that came out after that says I'm served by 3 cabinets and not getting FTTP or FTTC, does that mean BT have trolled me or is it some sort of mistake?
 
Seeing as FTTx will cost a bit more, I'd rather stay at the same price and have FTTx deliver the speed I pay for instead of the "up to" speed.
 
aidan444 said:
One spreadsheet says I'm getting FTTP and served by 1 cabinet, and one that came out after that says I'm served by 3 cabinets and not getting FTTP or FTTC, does that mean BT have trolled me or is it some sort of mistake?
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Its possible that your area is served by 3 cabinets, particularly if its a built up area. One of these cabinets could be getting FTTP and you could be in that cabinet.

The spreadsheets should not be taken as gospel. The postcode for my parents' house is listed as done and with 100% of lines getting FTTC, however they can't get it, even though neighbours down the road served by the same cabinet can get it.
 
I have been given this information on the BT Infinity forum by a member on how to bypass the p2p throttling BT induce at certain times using uTorrent. Initial testing by other users say it does work. Here it is:

Options > Preferences

"Connection"
> Click "Randomize port each start", ensure all four boxes here are ticked.

"Bandwidth"
> Tick "Alternate upload rate when not downloading".
> Maximum Upload Rate should be ~ 1/2 of your actual upstream bandwidth. I.e. if you have a 1Mbit upstream you would have a theoretical maximum throughput of 128Kbyte/sec, so in here you would enter 64 (It's in KB, not Kb)
> Altername upload rate when not downloading should be ~ 2/3 of your actual upstream bandwidth, so again assuming 1Mbit upstream, you'd enter 85
> "Global Rate Limit Option" - ensure none of these three boxes are ticked
> "Number of Connections" - Global: 256. Per Torrent: 64. Upload slots: 8. Tick "Use additional if under 90%"

"BitTorrent"
> "Basic BitTorrent Features" - ensure all boxes are ticked except "Enable Bandwidth Management" and "Limit local peer bandwidth"
> "Protocol Encryption" - Outgoing: Forced. Allow incoming legacy connections: Ticked.

"Advanced"
> "bt.transp_disposition" - increase to 255 and click "Set"
> "net.max_halfopen" - ensure this is set to 100
 
Spenty said:
I have been given this information on the BT Infinity forum by a member on how to bypass the p2p throttling BT induce at certain times using uTorrent. Initial testing by other users say it does work.

etc...
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I imagine they will try to close this off pretty quickly. If people start abusing this at peak times to download mass amounts of data it could cripple the network.
 
AMMUT said:
I imagine they will try to close this off pretty quickly. If people start abusing this at peak times to download mass amounts of data it could cripple the network.
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The forum doesn't have a great deal of users. And he only got time to PM a few users these details before the thread got locked.
 
Spenty said:
The forum doesn't have a great deal of users. And he only got time to PM a few users these details before the thread got locked.
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And it gets posted here on a public forum for all to see. This stuff gets spread out even when only a few people know about it.
 
Interesting, will try it somepoint later, however I haven't been throttled on p2p for the past few weeks at peak times, I guess there's not too much congestion on my exchange?
 
I avoided Infinity because I am always sceptical of packages listed as "unlimited".

I opted for Plusnet instead, yes they have a peak time usage cap of 120GB a month, but this is adequate for my needs, and it is truly unlimited from midnight-8am.

If you have a Pro package, there is zero traffic management. So I get full line speed 24/7 via any protocol.

Not a perfect line, because i am about 600m away from the cabinet, and I believe there is some aluminium involved :s

But so far so good.

 
reddev85 said:
I avoided Infinity because I am always sceptical of packages listed as "unlimited".

I opted for Plusnet instead, yes they have a peak time usage cap of 120GB a month, but this is adequate for my needs, and it is truly unlimited from midnight-8am.

If you have a Pro package, there is zero traffic management. So I get full line speed 24/7 via any protocol.

Not a perfect line, because i am about 600m away from the cabinet, and I believe there is some aluminium involved :s

But so far so good.

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You're mixing things up. "Unlimited" in this context means no usage limit, which Infinity Option 2 does not have, unlike Plusnet Pro. It's the traffic management, or shaping, that's the problem.

EDIT: Actually, I may have misunderstood that. Does usage between midnight and eight not contribute to your data usage?
 
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