BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

KIA · 22 Jan 2012 at 22:16

It depends on network load. It can be as low as 50KB/s.

SeeKified · 23 Jan 2012 at 12:54

Mine usually sits around 200KB/s during peaktime. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. To be honest, I'd rather have 40Mb all the time than 80Mb off-peak.

Borsch · 23 Jan 2012 at 19:39

"Peak time" being 4pm to Midnight? Thats pretty much the ONLY time most people use internet

200KB/s is unforgivable for cable imho, but thanks for the info- I'll remember to keep away from BT when I decide to switch (for now O2 gave me 6 months free for me to stay with their ADSL and I get permanent 550KB/s (real) - 6pm or 3am.)

Kanpai · 23 Jan 2012 at 22:39

Is YouTube running slow for anyone else or is it just me? Past few days I've noticed it's been really slow buffering videos in the evenings.

Caged · 23 Jan 2012 at 22:41

I don't get throttled at all on Infinity, steady 4.4MB/s down all the time. I think the throttling only applies to P2P, and I have nothing to do with that.

Borsch · 23 Jan 2012 at 23:24

Caged said:
I don't get throttled at all on Infinity, steady 4.4MB/s down all the time. I think the throttling only applies to P2P, and I have nothing to do with that.

When I spoke to O2 about TrafManagement, they told me about a sort of "hierarchy" - checking emails/general surfing being at the top, then youtube, then iPlayer and alike, then p2p. At peak times they *can* (whatever that means) throttle all of these apart form emails, with P2p being the worst affected, then Iplayer, then youtube... Oh, they mentioned games too, but where they fit in that scheme I do not remember.

Maybe BT does it differently,but I wouldn't bet on it.

Caged · 23 Jan 2012 at 23:34

BT state in that link posted earlier that the only thing they throttle is P2P, nothing else gets touched. From my experience that's about right. Never had a problem streaming, playing Xbox/PS3, or downloading at stupid speeds from newsgroups at peak time.

ColEx · 24 Jan 2012 at 01:27

Caged said:
I don't get throttled at all on Infinity, steady 4.4MB/s down all the time. I think the throttling only applies to P2P, and I have nothing to do with that.

Same here. Even on steam i get a steady 4.4MB/s down speed all day 24/7. And i live in a busy area to.

Tom84 · 24 Jan 2012 at 01:59

Got FTTC installed last Wednesday, not sure if there's a stabilisation period on a new install but my results were very up and down up till today when it's become a lot more stable. Max I've got is 31mbps which coming from anything between 0.5-2.00 mbps is very nice indeed

Diggsy · 24 Jan 2012 at 09:50

Just had my replacement OpenReach modem 'installed' by the 'engineer' (I installed it myself whilst he looked on

) and according to him they are indeed being replaced due to the overheating issues. It looks pretty much identical to my first one in every way.

XeNoN89 · 24 Jan 2012 at 11:28

DBT85 said:
Sorry =/ where abouts are you? I'm in Hooley so we don't have Virgin either

Coulsdon, and also no Virgin down my road

Useless for broadband here

Borsch · 24 Jan 2012 at 11:58

XeNoN89 said:
Coulsdon, and also no Virgin down my road

Useless for broadband here

Check PlusNet, they also do fibreoptic...

SeeKified · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:03

Of course, should've mentioned that they only throttle P2P - everything else is fullspeed (about 4.6MB/s for me) 24/7. And it's not end-to-end fibre, which is an important consideration.

shine · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:34

Diggsy said:
Just had my replacement OpenReach modem 'installed' by the 'engineer' (I installed it myself whilst he looked on ) and according to him they are indeed being replaced due to the overheating issues. It looks pretty much identical to my first one in every way.

Mine was installed this morning. I've had mind wall mounted since day 1 and suffered no issues so I hope this one is just as good!

Tom84 · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:46

Suffering at the moment with mine, gone right down as low as 3mbps not 5 minutes ago, now getting between 13-21mbps. I'll give it the 10 days my ISP advised, after that they'll be getting a phone call

AMMUT · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:58

Didn't see it mentioned but the BT checker is supposed to be updated this weekend to take the new 17a profile into account. So come Monday you can check to see what your speed might be on the 80/20 product through the checker.

Cooper · 24 Jan 2012 at 16:27

AMMUT said:
So come Monday you can check to see what your speed might be on the 80/20 product through the checker.

How accurate will it be though, before i had my FTTC installed it kept telling me i would get 25mbit at most, possibly as low as 15Mbit, yet here i am 2mths in and I'm still getting a rock solid 38Mbit.

Tom84 · 24 Jan 2012 at 17:29

Can someone explain the 10 day thing? Is it just an ISP copout so you don't contact them straight away or are BT genuinely learning the stability of the line during this period?

varkanoid · 24 Jan 2012 at 17:38

mark66 said:
Would be grateful if someone can comment on this, I still can't login and think the setup must be wrong....quite likely due to the problems experienced getting the order through!

also takes a while for usage to show, a month I think

varkanoid · 24 Jan 2012 at 17:41

richardirv said:
Think they are replacing them all, a high percentage of the original units are overheating/possible fire risks i have heard, they are replacing them all as fast as they can.

I've had my letter since before Christmas and not received a phone call yet. My modem has been fine as I mounted it vertically its cooler. They were possible fire risks/overheating because people put the home hub on top of the modem ! Even the BT engineers were leaving them like it.