BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

GregI said:
If any of you want to give me the extra £12 every month (£288 total) to switch then sure.

Can take a cheque or send my paypal email whichever is preferred. ;)
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In the words of Fred Durst, take a look around. You’d be surprised to know there are more companies than BT offering internet.
 
@Gigabit Do you know where the latest firmware is? Apparently I have 2.32e installed.

Eveyone else: I'm currently paying £26.99 but I got £48 account credit after haggling so essentially £24.99 which if I was getting the proper speeds would be a good deal imo. I forgot to say that a landline is also required and BT seem to be one of the few companies still bundling phone via FTTC and FTTP. Thus staying with them is pretty convenient if I was to upgrade in the future (I'm thinking maybe a good deal on black friday). It also means very cheap access to BT Sport for Champions League.

Don't get me wrong Plusnet right now is £24.99 for 56-72mb but then they don't offer an option for phone line on FTTP (again if black friday deal). Plus I'd then have to spend £16 a month just for BT Sport.

Vodafone: I'm not sure if their FTTP packages include phone but this is the offerings: https://i.imgur.com/za4Fwby.png

The 100 package would be pretty decent price wise but again if it's not including phone and adding the cost for BT Sport. I also heard how all these companies besides direct from BT all use inferior backhauls and with everyone switching to the cheaper providers you're likely going to incur latency issues in peak times. As you have all said BT is the most expensive but in my scenario when you factor in having a stable phone line, access to BT Sport and not having latency issues I think it's the only strong choice.

I do wonder though if I should just cancel this contract I have (7 day cooloff) for better bargaining power but then if I do that will I totally lose broadband access?
 
GregI said:
The 100 package would be pretty decent price wise but again if it's not including phone and adding the cost for BT Sport. I also heard how all these companies besides direct from BT all use inferior backhauls and with everyone switching to the cheaper providers you're likely going to incur latency issues in peak times.
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What now? Where have you heard this nonsense.
 
GregI said:
@Gigabit Do you know where the latest firmware is? Apparently I have 2.32e installed.

Eveyone else: I'm currently paying £26.99 but I got £48 account credit after haggling so essentially £24.99 which if I was getting the proper speeds would be a good deal imo. I forgot to say that a landline is also required and BT seem to be one of the few companies still bundling phone via FTTC and FTTP. Thus staying with them is pretty convenient if I was to upgrade in the future (I'm thinking maybe a good deal on black friday). It also means very cheap access to BT Sport for Champions League.

Don't get me wrong Plusnet right now is £24.99 for 56-72mb but then they don't offer an option for phone line on FTTP (again if black friday deal). Plus I'd then have to spend £16 a month just for BT Sport.

Vodafone: I'm not sure if their FTTP packages include phone but this is the offerings: https://i.imgur.com/za4Fwby.png

The 100 package would be pretty decent price wise but again if it's not including phone and adding the cost for BT Sport. I also heard how all these companies besides direct from BT all use inferior backhauls and with everyone switching to the cheaper providers you're likely going to incur latency issues in peak times. As you have all said BT is the most expensive but in my scenario when you factor in having a stable phone line, access to BT Sport and not having latency issues I think it's the only strong choice.

I do wonder though if I should just cancel this contract I have (7 day cooloff) for better bargaining power but then if I do that will I totally lose broadband access?
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Go to Billion's website or forum. Which model is it?
 
GregI said:
@GigabitI do wonder though if I should just cancel this contract I have (7 day cooloff) for better bargaining power but then if I do that will I totally lose broadband access?
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You can use your cooling-off period to go back to the position you were in before - which is out of contract. I'm not sure why you would re-contract with BT for 24 months anticipating that you could then take advantage of Black Friday deals to be honest.

I'm currently out of contract with BT and paying £0 extra per month for it (coming from a Halo package), waiting for FTTP.
 
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I will never get tired of this
 
That’s a seriously impressive ping - plus download/upload speeds. What setup do you have with router etc?

My BT contract ends on the 8th October. So I’ll switch to TT Future Fibre 500 at the start of September. As long I get the order placed by 8th Sept it’ll give 30 days notice
 
BeatMaster said:
That’s a seriously impressive ping - plus download/upload speeds. What setup do you have with router etc?

My BT contract ends on the 8th October. So I’ll switch to TT Future Fibre 500 at the start of September. As long I get the order placed by 8th Sept it’ll give 30 days notice
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It's just the TalkTalk Hub connected to the ONT. This was wired in with a MacBook Pro connected by gigabit ethernet.

I've been impressed with TalkTalk all the time I've been with. Support is horrendous but the speeds are consistently good with them and never had any congestion.

Only disappointing thing is bufferbloat/large pings when uploading/downloading but hopefully a new router with proper QoS will resolve that.
 
That looks like a connection that you're using though. You won't get a nice flat green line on anything other than an idle link (or one that you're prioritising TBB pings on for some bizarre reason).
 
Caged said:
That looks like a connection that you're using though. You won't get a nice flat green line on anything other than an idle link (or one that you're prioritising TBB pings on for some bizarre reason).
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I do run a fair few services but nothing is extremely bandwidth heavy that should be causing ping spikes thst bad.

ChrisD. said:
My Aquiss connection from today which has been in heavy use:


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This is what I expected to see when I switched to fttp.

Oh well, only 9 months left on my Sky contract :rolleyes: maybe when I switch I'll be able to download via a vpn without it completely killing my connection too.
 
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