BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Openreach history of upload:

ADSL up to 256Kbps
ADSLMAX up to 832Kbps
ADSL2+ up to 1.3Mbps
FTTC up to 20Mbps
G.Fast up to 50Mbps
FTTPoD up to 50Mbps
FTTP up to 110Mbps (for residential)
FTTP up to 220Mbps (for business)
 
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I'd advise against paying silly money for a Huawei modem, they are the best part of a decade old now and will have been hit with voltage fluctuations and surges on the telephone network for all the time they've been deployed. The BT Business Hubs can all be put into a bridge mode and sell for peanuts on eBay.
 
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Had a random email from BT last night saying "Sorry you're leaving". Seems someone tried to switch my broadband to another provider, as there aren't any real checks it's probably just a silly error.

Had to contact them and ask for that to be halted, still in contract with BT for best part of 2 years! Looks like they'd want £317 to quit me this early, probably around 6 months or so worth of service costs. Useful to know even if I'm not intending to actually leave at this time.
 
Make sure you have some sort of record (chat transcript, a note of what time you called and what number you called from) that you informed them you weren't cancelling. Just in case they manage to do a poor job of stopping it going through and try and charge you for it / duck out of paying you compensation for any outage that results.
 
HungryHippos said:
Had a random email from BT last night saying "Sorry you're leaving". Seems someone tried to switch my broadband to another provider, as there aren't any real checks it's probably just a silly error.

Had to contact them and ask for that to be halted, still in contract with BT for best part of 2 years! Looks like they'd want £317 to quit me this early, probably around 6 months or so worth of service costs. Useful to know even if I'm not intending to actually leave at this time.
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I've had this... twice... before - it can turn into a real mess so worth looking at Caged's advice above.

Hopefully won't for you.
 
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HungryHippos said:
Thanks fellas, I will make sure I get an email from them confirming the switch has been blocked!
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You can ask BT to block the switch over if someone else try to false order your line transfer to them. Ofcom should sort this mess out as it easy to lose broadband and line if someone mistaken order on the owner's address! VERY BAD IDEA! I wish we go back to old BTw checker as there used to say bottom screen there is an open or multi order on your line which it due to be completed by date. The new BTw checker won't show this anymore! Only viewed by the ISP only.
 
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www.ispreview.co.uk

Broadband ISP Plusnet Discounts UK FTTP Packages for Summer

Budget broadband provider Plusnet has today discounted the prices on their ultrafast and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered packages again for
www.ispreview.co.uk www.ispreview.co.uk

Seem good price for FTTP 500/75 @ £35 a month but shame my area is no FTTP available and also 24 months contract might put off people of buying it because of CPI + inflation will rise twice over next 2 years.
 
bulldog147 said:
www.ispreview.co.uk

Broadband ISP Plusnet Discounts UK FTTP Packages for Summer

Budget broadband provider Plusnet has today discounted the prices on their ultrafast and gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) powered packages again for
www.ispreview.co.uk www.ispreview.co.uk

Seem good price for FTTP 500/75 @ £35 a month but shame my area is no FTTP available and also 24 months contract might put off people of buying it because of CPI + inflation will rise twice over next 2 years.
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I'm half tempted by that, PlusNet do static IP addresses too.
 
ChrisD. said:
Valid point, VM don't do it, so it useful to have on my FTTP line. Also, not keen on 24 month contracts and 2x annual increases.

I think I'll wait until CF come, should hopefully be within a year.
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Aquiss have a 6 month half price offer on at the moment, 12 month contract and no CPI increase. Comes with Static IPv6. You have to provide your own router but wasn't a dealbreaker for me. I'm on the 330 package until the database is updated for my area.

https://www.aquiss.net/unlimited-fttp-fibre-broadband/
 
jonnymc4 said:
Aquiss have a 6 month half price offer on at the moment, 12 month contract and no CPI increase. Comes with Static IPv6. You have to provide your own router but wasn't a dealbreaker for me. I'm on the 330 package until the database is updated for my area.

https://www.aquiss.net/unlimited-fttp-fibre-broadband/
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I'm already with Aquiss. I'm looking at downgrading the speed of FTTP as I am having VM 1 Gb installed next week as part of a TV which will deal with large downloads.
 
jonnymc4 said:
Aaaaah, understood. Sorry hadn't read further up the thread!
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If it was my only ISP I would stay with Aquiss, however I figure the lower tiers of FTTP are absolutely fine for browsing, Netflix etc, and if I need to do large Linux ISO downloads, I can use the VM connection. Plus VM now match Openreach with upload and I'm in a new deployment area for them so I should get that benefit also.

With the Plusnet deal above, I could save £30 a month by going to their 145 Mbps service, albeit I would like IPv6 as well as a static IP, and as mentioned above they don't do IPv6. More than happy with Aquiss, and I've also remembered City Fibre aren't too far away so I'll likely just stay put.
 
BT will do you 40/10 for £27 which isn't fast but it will do a video call without any issues. Do you absolutely need a backup? Is tethering for a few days during a big outage of your primary service going to cause massive problems?
 
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No static with BT which I pretty much need for my job. I probably could do without a backup but I don't trust having VM as my primary line - I've only got it for the TV package I've got with them being significantly cheaper than Sky.
 
I have a static with Lit which I use for my job so I understand, but if it wasn't available I'd more than likely chuck the important stuff through the cheap 3Mbps A&A L2TP tunnel. It's just for remote access of firewalls and I can connect to a full tunnel VPN at work if I really needed to.

Edit: Uno claim their packages start at £22.99 and you get a static, their very bad website still wants to check availability using a phone number though despite there being only three months left until WLR stop-sell.

uno Communications Ltd.

Providing connectivity services to SOHO, business and enterprise all over the UK. From xDSL all the way to leased circuits, we do it all.
www.uno.uk www.uno.uk
 
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