BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[Troezar]

If you do decide to go with BT sign up for the 150 service and then upgrade it to 900. Mine was installed earlier this week on the basic service, I checked the upgrade options via MyBT the next day and got the 900 service for £54.99.

Worth knowing thanks, looks like a £5/month saving. Contractors are currently putting fibre to the poles on our estate, seem to have just put extra poles in and connecting those, not see anything going into the ground yet.

 

[the-evaluator]

If your phone line comes from a pole rather than underground then it's unlikely they'll be doing much in the way of underground works.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Even though they are doing the pole work now I wouldn’t expect to actually get the service for some months yet. There is a huge back log of installs due to them not doing them during lockdown.

 

[ChrisD.]

After being stuck with FTTC for 6 and a half years, I'm excited to have placed a home move order with Zen for a house I'm hopefully moving into on the 18th June. Existing ONT at the house so there shouldn't be any issues (barring the chain of course!). Bring on Full Fibre 900!

 

[Troezar]

If your phone line comes from a pole rather than underground then it's unlikely they'll be doing much in the way of underground works.

As I walk around the estate I can see the BT manholes/access points and the connection between different streets is not all across poles and is going underground. Obviously the line coming off the pole to the house isn't underground but this mix is quite common looking at other areas of a similar age.

Even though they are doing the pole work now I wouldn’t expect to actually get the service for some months yet. There is a huge back log of installs due to them not doing them during lockdown.

That's what I gather from other peoples experiences. It's not a big issue as summer is almost here and I tend to be outside more.

 

[mikehhhhhhh]

After being stuck with FTTC for 6 and a half years, I'm excited to have placed a home move order with Zen for a house I'm hopefully moving into on the 18th June. Existing ONT at the house so there shouldn't be any issues (barring the chain of course!). Bring on Full Fibre 900!

I did something similar recently, bought a house with FTTP access after years of being stuck on unreliable VM connections.

It's genuinely made my life significantly better, particularly as a software engineer working from home!

 

[ChrisD.]

It's genuinely made my life significantly better, particularly as a software engineer working from home!

Similar here, I'm constantly uploading or downloading large amounts of data, some for customer proof of concepts, so it'll be fantastic to have a decent connection.

 

[Greg0986]

Finally! After 3 years of having around 20mb download and 1 up, as I am at the end of the line for my cabinet, Jurassic Fibre have just done the survey and will be installing my FTTP connection soon, first one in my town too

 

[MissChief]

Sigh. The FTTP rollout continues to avoid my town like bacteria in a Penicillin Petri dish. Honestly it’s becoming like a donut around my town.

 

[Caged]

I think Openreach hate Leicestershire

 

[mid_gen]

I think Openreach hate Leicestershire

I'm in one of those rural splodges south of Derby, very happy, I didn't expect to get decent speeds when I moved t'country!

Just ordered my Full Fibre 900. Installation 2nd June they reckon.

 

[GGizmo]

I can understand the PR and money bonus OR get when the work in rural areas.

But I wish they would publish more stories about the progress they are doing in the urban areas too.

 

[mid_gen]

Can I keep using my Draytek Vigor 130 with Infinity? Or do I need a dedicated fibre modem?

 

[robj20]

Can I keep using my Draytek Vigor 130 with Infinity? Or do I need a dedicated fibre modem?

Infinity, do you mean FTTP (full fiber to the home) Does it do PPPoE? If so it will be fine.

 

[mid_gen]

Infinity, do you mean FTTP (full fiber to the home) Does it do PPPoE? If so it will be fine.

FTTP. i'm not sure what the connection looks like, will it just be ethernet straight into my router?

I've had fiber in other countries and I actually had a fibre optic cable into my apartment that went into the modem. Sound like that's not the case here?

 

[andy_mk3]

FTTP. i'm not sure what the connection looks like, will it just be ethernet straight into my router?

I've had fiber in other countries and I actually had a fibre optic cable into my apartment that went into the modem. Sound like that's not the case here?

OR will fit an ONT which the fibre goes into, and gives you an ethernet WAN port which you can use the router of your choice.

 

[Joeyuk]

Noticed a few openreach engineers installing boxes on some of my neighbours homes and turns out we can now get fttp from BT. Christ the prices are big, not sure I want to spend min £40pm for it though.

 

[MissChief]

Noticed a few openreach engineers installing boxes on some of my neighbours homes and turns out we can now get fttp from BT. Christ the prices are big, not sure I want to spend min £40pm for it though.

Gotta pay to go fast. Compare the price per megabit and it’s peanuts really compared to what we used to pay. You don’t need to get the really fast packages either, the same bands as FTTC are also available.

 

[MrRockliffe]

Noticed a few openreach engineers installing boxes on some of my neighbours homes and turns out we can now get fttp from BT. Christ the prices are big, not sure I want to spend min £40pm for it though.

Worth it for the stability alone IMO.

 

[Joeyuk]

Gotta pay to go fast. Compare the price per megabit and it’s peanuts really compared to what we used to pay. You don’t need to get the really fast packages either, the same bands as FTTC are also available.

Tied into sky for another 9 months anyway so will revisit it when my contract is up.