Soldato
Yes.
BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
- Thread starter michellez
- Start date
Without a shadow of a doubt.
Man of Honour
That was my instinct. There's good cashback deals too....
I'm just now thinking where to put the ONT socket as ideally I'd like it installed near/into my small IT rack but I guess as long as I have a cable to it (which I do) it's not the end of the world. I'd just like to free up the study from being the point of access.
Thanks !
Ok. I'm sold!
I've not had issues with virgin but always found them overpriced.
Last edited:
Soldato
That was my instinct. There's good cashback deals too....
I'm just now thinking where to put the ONT socket as ideally I'd like it installed near/into my small IT rack but I guess as long as I have a cable to it (which I do) it's not the end of the world. I'd just like to free up the study from being the point of access.
Thanks !
Ok. I'm sold!
I've not had issues with virgin but always found them overpriced.
You do have some flexibility of where you want the ONT. Although each installer will differ. Guy who installed mine said he prefers the shortest route possible to lessen the risk of damaging the cable, said they have to go out to quite a few broken cables. Luckily though we have an Ethernet port in the hallway so it worked out well.
Got 6 months of my Sky contract left now, pretty certain I’ll be going with Aquiss when I renew as they look really good and are well priced.
Man of Honour
I'll have a look at Aquiss and check if they cover me (they should as openreach now do... literally must have been within the last month!).
I have an ethernet port by the front of the house for this reason. It'll do! Cheers.
I have an ethernet port by the front of the house for this reason. It'll do! Cheers.
Last edited:
Mine was about 2 weeks, after that installed the CBT on the pole before I could order it.Fibre just went up the pole for my house. Hope I can order fttp soon
Soldato
I can just remove the batteries from my battery back up unit on my ONT right? But I’ll still have to have the battery backup unit plugged in to pass through power to the ONT correct?
The batteries have failed after 7 years, or at least the fault light is showing. Although oddly we never had a voice service along with it, so technically the batteries were never really needed.
The batteries have failed after 7 years, or at least the fault light is showing. Although oddly we never had a voice service along with it, so technically the batteries were never really needed.
Soldato
I think I Have to keep the battery backup unit to pass power to the ONT? Or can I just move the ac in over? I.e
Seems like I can just move the ac in over from the battery backup unit directly into the ONT and do what @chrisd advises.
Last edited:
Openreach don't even install the battery backup these days so I would just ditch it.
I've been using a Billion router for my FTTC but the wireless just decided not to show up one day so I was put back on the Smart Hub 1. People have been complaining in peer to peer that I'm lagging. Pinging bbc.co.uk is seeing weird jumps: https://i.imgur.com/OzdDAgI.png
Is there anyway to limit these spikes? Never really happened on the Billion so the Hub is just not good enough to handle the amount of devices attached even when mostly idle? Around 10 or so. The problem is am I am likely moving to FTTP soon so how do I go about not using the Smart Hub 2? Is it better or also just horrible? Are you able to use an all in one modem/router or always have to daisychain off to a router from the Smart Hub 2?
Is there anyway to limit these spikes? Never really happened on the Billion so the Hub is just not good enough to handle the amount of devices attached even when mostly idle? Around 10 or so. The problem is am I am likely moving to FTTP soon so how do I go about not using the Smart Hub 2? Is it better or also just horrible? Are you able to use an all in one modem/router or always have to daisychain off to a router from the Smart Hub 2?
You are able to use any router that supports PPPoE with FTTP straight from the ONT. Details below.
[email protected]
(password can be whatever)
To be honest the Smart Hub 2 isn't too bad, I was managing 500Mbps+ on WiFi when using it and seemed rock solid <10ms to BBC. Although now I've switched to Eero 6 to get the full 910Mbps
Last edited:
You don't say if you're on Wi-Fi or not, but I suspect you are with pings like that. An occasional jump from 16ms to 31ms is not going to be noticeable in game. Whatever the cause of lag in peer to peer (unsure what that is referring to really), you haven't found it yet.