BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[Bigpig]

FTTP finally hit the poles on the street outside.

Seems like 500/65-80 seems the best value. My thinking is that I have some older Unifi AC Pro across the house and the PHY speeds to the APs is 600-800Mbps.

So from my readings, divide that PHY by 3 to get theoretical max speeds for download/upload, giving 200-250Mbps across the house. Why get a 900/85-100 package when the APs won't even give us access to the extra download speed? Even upgrading to the U6 or U7 might not even max out a 900 connection and would cost me like £600 for the new APs.

My upgrade went through yesterday and omada AP’s are maxing around 500-600mb

Everything important is wired. Kinda forgot about them when trying various tests on my phone and wondering if the upgrade gone through hah!

 

[Goose]

Finally managed to leave Virgin after 25 years and moved to Plusnet.



Are those spikes anything to worry about or should it be flat even during peak times?



That's my virgin graph, fwiw.

 

[McGraw]

I live near Rochdale. Saw Openreach outside my house and asked if he knew anything about timescales for full fibre and he said the poles looked set up ready (think he said the blocks were installed). I'm hoping it comes fairly soon as we're having some work done on the house and would like it in before I lose the chance to run the cable/have the kit where I want it and to remove all traces of the old wiring.

Is it worth replacing the homehub with something else? I work from home and my partner runs her small business from home too. We don't do anything fancy apart from port forwarding for sptarkov/DCS etc. but I like the idea of getting things as good as possible now we've moved and will finally be getting very fast internet

 

[Dg834man]

I'm hoping it comes fairly soon as we're having some work done on the house and would like it in before I lose the chance to run the cable/have the kit where I want it and to remove all traces of the old wiring.

Run an ethernet cable to where you expect the ont will be before you get the work done

 

[McGraw]

Run an ethernet cable to where you expect the ont will be before you get the work done

It could be one of about 4 places

 

[Dg834man]

It could be one of about 4 places

You do get some say but it needs to be near a power outlet and on the ground floor normally, it's also usually on the side where the existing service comes in fairly sure that narrows it down a bit.

 

[thewanted]

Is anyone aware of which Openreach ISPs will allow you to move from FTTC to FTTP mid-contract when it becomes available?

So far I've found that Plusnet and BT will.

 

[the-evaluator]

Is anyone aware of which Openreach ISPs will allow you to move from FTTC to FTTP mid-contract when it becomes available?

So far I've found that Plusnet and BT will.

I'd be surprised if any ISP wouldn't.

 

[Luke_Bowman]

Is anyone aware of which Openreach ISPs will allow you to move from FTTC to FTTP mid-contract when it becomes available?

So far I've found that Plusnet and BT will.

Feels like there's a big push to FTTP so I'd be very surprised if they didn't allow it.

 

[robj20]

Anyone with Brillband they seem too good to be true.
900mb for £38 no price increases, presume they are on Openreach.

 

[ChrisD.]

Anyone with Brillband they seem too good to be true.
900mb for £38 no price increases, presume they are on Openreach.

They are CF and not Openreach.

 

[robj20]

They are CF and not Openreach.

Maybe they were, we don't have Cityfiber here but Brillband are saying they can do my address.

So many options, trying to find the best price for an ISP that isn't terrible.

 

[PaulM]

Anyone ever had a problem with the BT DNS server randomly stopping working? Yesterday evening the BT Hubs default DNS servers (81.139.56.100 / 81.139.57.100) stopped resolving for me, tried resetting back to factory defaults just to test, but no luck. If I set the DNS server to a 3rd party one i.e. 8.8.8.8 it works fine but unfortunately the BT Hub doesn't seem to let you change the global setting and doing it on every device is a pita.

Phoned BT this morning who are adamant there's no issue on their end

 

[ChrisD.]

Anyone ever had a problem with the BT DNS server randomly stopping working? Yesterday evening the BT Hubs default DNS servers (81.139.56.100 / 81.139.57.100) stopped resolving for me, tried resetting back to factory defaults just to test, but no luck. If I set the DNS server to a 3rd party one i.e. 8.8.8.8 it works fine but unfortunately the BT Hub doesn't seem to let you change the global setting and doing it on every device is a pita.

Phoned BT this morning who are adamant there's no issue on their end

First thing you should do is move away from ISP provided DNS servers.

 

[Zico]

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[Rroff]

Anyone ever had a problem with the BT DNS server randomly stopping working?

Rare but not a completely unusual story over the years for BT DNS servers to be a bit glitchy at times, usually just 1-2 hours where they wouldn't resolve but intermittent DNS related issues with HTTPS, etc. I'm not really sure what is going on with it. I've so far not experienced it with my EE connection (now essentially BT) or other ISPs though.

 

[PaulM]

Thanks, usually I would have a non-BT router with Cloudflare and/or Google DNS servers configured, but I'm living in someone else's house at the moment and I didn't want to manually set all their devices to use a different DNS server. It seems to have started working again now though after being down for ~24 hours.