Any takers for BT Total Broadband yet?

[benjo plz.]

I am hoping to use my existing Voyager 2500V as a Wi-fi repeater but I have a feeling it won't work!

2901s work as repeaters, so the 2500v should. There is the possibility of oem firmware to allow extra options.

 

[tolien]

well my netgear router says its connected at 7.2, I know for a fact that the exchange can only cope with 6mb.

Your exchange will be able to cope with 8Mbps. Your router will be reporting what you're actually doing.

I only recieve 4.5mb despite my neighbour recieving 6mb which is the max for the exchange.

Drivel.

Basically its the router saying your connected to the asdl max (what they want U to see up 2 8mb) but realistically you get what bt wholesale say U can have due to line quality.

Not true. What you're probably thinking about is the difference between what your modem syncs at, and what IP throughput you get (the latter being what a speedtest is going to show).

router statistics lie hehe

They might not be completely accurate, but there's no outright lie.

 

[benjo plz.]

however with the hub that speed is increased to 7.1, so there maybe some trickery inside the hub that increases the speed.

Like a better modem?

 

[tipsy]

This is honest and is stated by a family friend is BT engineer (brother in laws father)

Due to line quality I will not be able to recieve 8 mb (& ways the lines are routed) adsl also most lines in this area are the old poles... the lines in my surrounding area are being replaced so maybe I will get a new one. My old address where I used to live up till november last year has a max of 6.5mb connection (as of 2day) & thats approx 100m from the exchange & on the same postcode...

LINK

http://www.bt.com/broadband/bb_info...BV_EngineID=ccceaddifiefifkcflgcefkdffndfli.0

postcode NE425HF


if I put my phone No my address it shows 4.5mb max although postcode shows 6mb


I'm not arguing with what was said but disagree slightly, so I wonder if U could hopefully answer this question

 

[Lummux]

I know for a fact that the exchange can only cope with 6mb.

Nope that’s wrong, the exchange can handle up to 8meg as that is the ADSL spec.
The speed you sync at is to do with your line length and quality. Therefore if you live in the exchange then you will get 8 meg and the further you live away the further the speed will decrease.

 

[Datamonkey]

well what a tuck up,

im only able to post as im back at work now.

moved into my lasses house, the net connection was supposed to be active on the 28th, on the 28th i get up all excited lol as you do, plug in the router an nowt.

Call BT they say it will be active on the 30th, hmm ok, 30th i gets up like a kid (im 28 btw lol), runs downstairs turns on the modem, nowt wtf.

Call them up, get told the 4th.

Repeat above.

Get up on the 4th trudge (given up on running now) turn the modem on, nowt.

Pick up the phone to call bt no dial tone!! wtf!!!

My lass calls bt as the account is in her name, they report back that there is a line fault and they cant investigate it as we have a case open re the broad band at present!! cue lots of words i have never heard her use before lol.

She then finally gets through a lad in a uk call center who helps us out, he forwards all calls free of charge to her mobile and kicks some arse his end, Were now informed that all will be running by tuesday 11th july.

I dont think i will be running downstairs tomorrow.

My home hub is supposed to be arriving today also, believe it when i have the package in my hand.


One of the reasons i went bt was to try to avoid problems like this lol, imagine if i had gone through another provider who uses bt lines anyways?? It would have been a case of calling the isp. then being told to call bt, they would have said it was an isp thing!! could have gone on for ever.

Meh

will update you guys if i do ever get it working.

sorry for the long post.

 

[benjo plz.]

My home hub is supposed to be arriving today also, believe it when i have the package in my hand.


One of the reasons i went bt was to try to avoid problems like this lol, imagine if i had gone through another provider who uses bt lines anyways?? It would have been a case of calling the isp. then being told to call bt, they would have said it was an isp thing!! could have gone on for ever.

From whats said in this thread, you won't be getting a phone with it, if you do get it.

Yeh, call centres are like ping pong to be honest. And they're probably in Ping Pong too .

 

[tolien]

I'm not arguing with what was said but disagree slightly, so I wonder if U could hopefully answer this question

What question?

 

[tipsy]

its sorted just forget about it exchange is enabled for 8mb, I sync at 8mb (actually 7.1) but due to line quality I get 4.5mb, ah well all done and dusted & bt R checking the line again for speed regrading um!!! dont know Y this time.

 

[tolien]

No.

"Exchange is capable of 8Mbps", you sync at 4.5Mbps.

 

[doran1801]

i have just recieved my total broadband router this morning (without the phone!) At 1st immpressions it looks pretty crap. I cannot figure out how to set it up so ic an use it along side my linksys adls wag354g, i rang bt tech support but from what i could understand, which was very little i cannot do this.
I still think i can use the bt one as the modem and the linksys as a router somehow. I just don't know how so this is where you come in.

Anyone?

 

[Datamonkey]

well an update on my fun situation,

my lass has picked up the home hub, no phone.

BT also have an engineer who will be out between now and 4pm, believe it when i see it.

Totall shambles, just glad i havent got another isp involed. 3 parties involved (me, bt and isp) would be a total mix. At least i can get on the phone and blame one party and not have it shunted between the isp and bt.

 

[tolien]

The best you could do would be hooking one of the switch ports on the BT box (if it has any) to one on the Linksys, and disable DHCP et al on it.
Basically you'd get left with a wireless AP and a switch.

Totall shambles, just glad i havent got another isp involed. 3 parties involved (me, bt and isp) would be a total mix. At least i can get on the phone and blame one party and not have it shunted between the isp and bt.

You do. BT Retail and BT Wholesale/Openreach are distinct, and interact in the same way as any other ISP and BT Wholesale/Openreach do.
The sooner everyone understands the degree of separation between the different chunks of BT, the sooner "I've got a BT line, so I'm in any way better with BT Broadband" dies as the heap of crap that it is.

 

[Datamonkey]

^^

realised this as soon as i posted lol.

BT Broadband is the shambles, it was a guy on the BT Phone line side of things in the uk who finally got the ball rolling as to resolving our issue

 

[benjo plz.]

my lass has picked up the home hub, no phone.

(without the phone!)

The no phone bit has already been established (earlier in the thread), it is to be expected .

BTW, Tolien, have you switched to max yet?

 

[Datamonkey]

^^ yes fella, but their supposed to be sending out replacements so i would have expected this to have shipped with the hub

 

[tolien]

BTW, Tolien, have you switched to max yet?

Nope.

 

[benjo plz.]

^^ yes fella, but their supposed to be sending out replacements so i would have expected this to have shipped with the hub

This is BT we are talking about

 

[Datamonkey]

lol dont remind me, i have been waiting since june 26th to have broad band sorted at my new place.

I mean for the whole weekend we havent even had a phone line lol.

I had half expected to find some string and 2 cans in the box, with some instructions on how to make a ghetto phone system.

 

[BenST]

G.711 codec uses around 10kbytes/sec , or so I have measured. Hardly anything on most broadband lines.