BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Tomsk · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:51

Bennah said:
Changed over to Infinity from BeThere around 3 weeks ago. Can't fault the service so far.

Which exchange are you on?

I'm on the Sale exchange.
I'm also with Be and considering switching to a Bt Infinity package.

Topitoff · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:14

Infinity installed today
Went from this:

To this:

John24 · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:29

Bennah said:
Recently speeds have dropped using Transmission though at any time of the day. Could be some settings though.

Are you sure it's not insufficient seeders? I get full download speed outside 5pm-midnight using uTorrent.

Make sure your ports are open.

John24 · 18 Mar 2011 at 19:30

Topitoff said:
Infinity installed today
Went from this:

To this:

That's the slowest connection I've seen someone moving to FTTC from. You must be loving it.

House · 20 Mar 2011 at 21:24

I got a nice suprise yesterday, my date had been 31 Dec 2010 it moved to 31 March 2011, then to 31 Sept 2011.

Now it says 23 March 2011, now that sounds like a real date to me, Tomorrow morning im getting a MAC code from Sky and come the 23rd ill be good to go.

Topitoff · 20 Mar 2011 at 23:15

House said:
Tomorrow morning im getting a MAC code from Sky and come the 23rd ill be good to go.

I got my MAC code on 15th Feb. it then took 10 working days for the line to change to BT. Only once I'd got the BT line would they take the order for Infinity, that again was about 10 working days so it was the 18th of March by the time it was installed.

House · 20 Mar 2011 at 23:26

my line has always been BT, sky are just my ISP so that shouldnt be a problem.

If BT insist on be getting there ADSl before I can get infinity then ill go with someone else.

KIA · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:14

House said:
my line has always been BT, sky are just my ISP so that shouldnt be a problem.

Do you have Sky Broadband Connect?

House · 21 Mar 2011 at 18:20

Nope unlimited, back from when if first came out. Line rental to BT Internet to sky. Gits juts put it up £5 as well cause I won't take their line. I'm paying double their advertised rate at £15 a month

scorza · 21 Mar 2011 at 18:47

Got my MAC code from Sky today and just signed up for BT Infinity - went for the 40Gb usage package for £18 a month (£7.50 for first 3 - why? :mad:

). D-Day is 6th April :cool:

Nazca · 21 Mar 2011 at 18:58

Tomorrow morning, the BT engineer comes. Can't wait!

What do they do by the way. Plug in the Home hub and ring BT to activate?

House · 21 Mar 2011 at 19:16

Modem and Hub are separate bits of kit, they also swap out the face plate on your master socket

Guitarman0 · 21 Mar 2011 at 20:26

Mine is due for the 23rd of March. I do hope it does come then

Snograt · 21 Mar 2011 at 22:36

Nazca said:
Tomorrow morning, the BT engineer comes. Can't wait!

What do they do by the way. Plug in the Home hub and ring BT to activate?

They first visit the green cabinet at the end of the road, then they attach the new faceplate, hook the modem up to it, then hook that up to the HH3.

10 minute job.

Gammawolf · 21 Mar 2011 at 22:45

I was so trigger happy i ordered the second after midnight the day they allowed it for my area, the result was the job order got sent to a different guy who had no clue what to do at the cabinet

. Sad day as i thought i would have to wait another week but luckily they managed to send a guy over a few hours later, was done in 10mins and receiving near max thru put

rymz · 22 Mar 2011 at 02:34

Gotta wait another 6 months to get Infinity (Addiscombe, Croydon) - Been with Orange ever since they were Freeserve >.<

KIA · 22 Mar 2011 at 09:08

3 months here. I have already spotted a couple of small FTTC cabs in our village.

Nazca · 22 Mar 2011 at 10:08

Yay, finally connected to fibre. Was on 3.5Mb
now.

Although I should be on about 38.5 Mb says the engineer. Hope it speeds up!

KIA · 22 Mar 2011 at 15:26

Nazca said:
Yay, finally connected to fibre. Was on 3.5Mb
now.

Although I should be on about 38.5 Mb says the engineer. Hope it speeds up!

You're connected to copper.

Official BT speedtest will give you the IP profile for downstream.

John24 · 22 Mar 2011 at 17:59

fluff said:
You're connected to copper.

Indeed, for the first few hundered feet to the cabinet, then it's fibre.

I'd be interested in your IP Profile Nazca: http://speedtester.bt.com/

"Faster than 96% of GB" love it.