With ours I laid some conduit from where the cable emerges from underground across the front of the house under some chippings. The engineer was able to then drill through the wall to mount the ONT in a better place. They might be able to simply run the fibre cable/clip it to the wall to run it to where is best for you?
BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
- Thread starter michellez
- Start date
With ours I laid some conduit from where the cable emerges from underground across the front of the house under some chippings. The engineer was able to then drill through the wall to mount the ONT in a better place. They might be able to simply run the fibre cable/clip it to the wall to run it to where is best for you?
Lovely FTTP. The blip at 2am is my lab and Mac backups uploading to the cloud.
Most excellent pings:
Code:
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=5.887 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=5.540 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=5.420 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=5.727 msOver the moon with the connection, it's made work much easier and I can do more with it. Just wish I had quicker upload but it's much, much better than anything I've ever had before.
FTTC is getting long in the tooth now. I had around 10-13 Mbps and I tried uploading my backups to the cloud however the upload never actually finished in 24 hours so by the time it came to do the deltas it just ended up in a constant loop.
FTTC is getting long in the tooth now. I had around 10-13 Mbps and I tried uploading my backups to the cloud however the upload never actually finished in 24 hours so by the time it came to do the deltas it just ended up in a constant loop.
It is, it's been nearly 10 years since we got it, thats a huge amount of time for no increase whatsoever, in fact it's gone down in speed since the original install as the cabinet filled up.
I keep my offsite daily backups to a minimum for that reason. It's very frustrating!
I had a 4 and 5 TB external USB drive that I kept at my mother in laws.
Best thing BT ever did in my area. Rural Wales.
We had some of the worst internet in the UK ( under 1 meg )
Then they came up with the fiber to the node and spread fiber all over the place like a spider web.
It is FTTP and they even dug up my drive to install it.
We bought the cheapest infinity package but they kept upgrading us for free or £1.
Now its about 100 - 130 meg or something like than and is a life changer going from under 1 to that i can tell you.
I still find it expensive but its better value than the rubbish we had before
We had some of the worst internet in the UK ( under 1 meg )
Then they came up with the fiber to the node and spread fiber all over the place like a spider web.
It is FTTP and they even dug up my drive to install it.
We bought the cheapest infinity package but they kept upgrading us for free or £1.
Now its about 100 - 130 meg or something like than and is a life changer going from under 1 to that i can tell you.
I still find it expensive but its better value than the rubbish we had before
The WIFI just went down in the house earlier after a bit of investigation discovered the BT Smart Hub 2 got a firmware upgrade and it reset the box to factory default. v0.27.06.04290-BT is the version its on now. Rather bloody annoying as I've got loads of devices on the wifi so had to change the password back to the one I use so they could all connect again. Weird thing is though my speed has now gone up from 56Mbps to 66Mbps. Upload still the same 18Mbps.
I dont think we will get FTTP anytime soon. I've had FTTC since it came out must be what ten years now. Virgin have only recently dug up all the pavements (and are still doing it in Leeds/Wakefield) so I cant see BT coming along and doing the same again. Funny thing is I own a shared driveway about 15-20 metres long so when Virgin's DodgeIt and BodgeIt installers came round they didnt put the cabling in on the pavement to my house or the neighbours they missed us out. They didnt even bother to ask us at all. So when the Virgin reps came round they went to every house but ours. I did get a couple of times a phone call saying "Virgin is now in your area would you be interested in Faster Broadband" till they entered my address and found out we weren't installed. The daft thing is we live opposite "The Green" which is a grassy park area in the middle of of our estate owned by the council they could have so easily dug a channel upto to opposite our house if they had wanted to. Sod em.
I dont think we will get FTTP anytime soon. I've had FTTC since it came out must be what ten years now. Virgin have only recently dug up all the pavements (and are still doing it in Leeds/Wakefield) so I cant see BT coming along and doing the same again. Funny thing is I own a shared driveway about 15-20 metres long so when Virgin's DodgeIt and BodgeIt installers came round they didnt put the cabling in on the pavement to my house or the neighbours they missed us out. They didnt even bother to ask us at all. So when the Virgin reps came round they went to every house but ours. I did get a couple of times a phone call saying "Virgin is now in your area would you be interested in Faster Broadband" till they entered my address and found out we weren't installed. The daft thing is we live opposite "The Green" which is a grassy park area in the middle of of our estate owned by the council they could have so easily dug a channel upto to opposite our house if they had wanted to. Sod em.
Guessing you must be very close to London? I am in Kent and my pings (with Zen) are a little bit higher than yours.
I know they had to use a subtended head end in our install though so guessing thats added some latency.
Code:
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=7.324 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=7.659 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=7.445 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=7.565 msLike yours though, super stable and would never go back to VDSL! Red blip was a pfsense update
Last edited:
I'm in Gloucester and I'm surprised by the latency.
Code:
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 _gateway (192.168.1.254) 0.841 ms 0.292 ms 0.260 ms
2 vt1.cor2.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk (51.148.72.24) 4.076 ms 7.991 ms 4.238 ms
3 lag-9.p2.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.208) 4.738 ms
lag-8.p1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.188) 4.688 ms 4.665 ms
4 lag-1.br1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.181) 4.366 ms 4.288 ms
lag-2.br1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.195) 4.243 ms
5 linx-lon1.as13335.net (195.66.225.179) 20.569 ms 23.274 ms 5.991 ms
6 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 5.290 ms 4.745 ms 5.331 msI get some sub 5 ms pings, it's very good. Not that I'd ever notice but I was on nearly 20 in the previous house.
Now with Jurassic Fibre on their top 950Mbps package. Getting a steady 800Mbps download, so will contact them to see why its not hitting 950Mbps. I am the only one on my street with it, and only a few houses in the entire town have it. Latency is slightly better than FTTC but not wildly.
Annoyingly, they use CGNAT, so I can't port forward or setup OpenVPN into my network, and they don't tell you this when you sign up and nothing is on their site about it. I can get around this by buying a business account which will give me a non NAT'd IP which is static. Its an extra £4 a month, but I am locked in for 24 months...
Annoyingly, they use CGNAT, so I can't port forward or setup OpenVPN into my network, and they don't tell you this when you sign up and nothing is on their site about it. I can get around this by buying a business account which will give me a non NAT'd IP which is static. Its an extra £4 a month, but I am locked in for 24 months...
I take the exact same route! It has to be down to the remote OLT, there was not enough spare fibre in the ground (has to cross water) so rather than the usual method of feeding the fibre back to the handover exchange they are using a remote OLT in the local smaller exchange building.
Not like it really matters, going from 40/10 to 900/100 was like going from ISDN to 2mbit adsl back in the day
Code:
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 vt1.cor2.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk (51.148.72.24) 5.864 ms 6.799 ms 6.628 ms
2 lag-8.p1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.188) 7.006 ms 6.927 ms
lag-9.p2.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.208) 7.021 ms
3 lag-2.br1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.195) 7.137 ms
lag-1.br1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk (51.148.73.181) 6.867 ms 7.002 ms
4 linx-lon1.as13335.net (195.66.225.179) 10.861 ms * *
5 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 7.062 ms 7.121 ms 7.090 ms
Wow, looks a lot nicer than my FTTC connection:Like yours though, super stable and would never go back to VDSL! Red blip was a pfsense update
Wow, looks a lot nicer than my FTTC connection:
That still looks better than most virgin media connections I've seen.
Yep, never going with them. My parents had them and their traffic shaping policies back then were awful, as was gaming due to wild pings.
Same. I can get them at my house but I’m sticking with FTTP for many reasons.
Hi,
so on this wholesale checker ,
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/telephoneHome
it's saying FTTP downstream 330 Mpbs is available for me.
No one is selling me anywhere near that number though,I think 108 is the best on offer from TalkTalk.
There has been a ton of work going on in my area this year so how long will I have to wait before any upgrades come on to the market?
Cheers.
so on this wholesale checker ,
https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/telephoneHome
it's saying FTTP downstream 330 Mpbs is available for me.
No one is selling me anywhere near that number though,I think 108 is the best on offer from TalkTalk.
There has been a ton of work going on in my area this year so how long will I have to wait before any upgrades come on to the market?
Cheers.
Is it showing FTTPoD? If so, that's where you pay Openreach via a supplier to install FTTP to your house and it's extremely expensive. If TalkTalk are offering 108 Mbps then it sounds as if you have a G.Fast capable cabinet so feel free to choose any ISP that supports G.Fast.