BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Again, I'd rather have 40/10 without traffic shaping, but I won't complain when 80/20 hits. It's good to see the UK's infrastructure starting to catch up. :)
 
My exchange (Hendon) recently went live, but my post code has lots of issues showing up and I don't even know when my cabinet (which cabinet) will be upgraded. Building across the road from me is already FTTC enabled, but they're connected to a different exchange! When this building was constructed, somebody unwisely decided that they'll connect it to a different cabinet, oh and, the cabinet will not be FTTC enabled from the get go!

Six months ago is when they built the cabinet my building is connected to, but it looks like my post code isn't showing up on any of those tables, so it might be months before they decide to upgrade...
 
Really bad ping tonight, can't even get a game of BF3 in :( Was ~25ms last night now 100ms+ with packet loss

Had a good couple of months out of Infinity, just like I did with Virgin Media... Hopefully this isn't history repeating :eek:
 
d_brennen said:
Really bad ping tonight, can't even get a game of BF3 in :( Was ~25ms last night now 100ms+ with packet loss

Had a good couple of months out of Infinity, just like I did with Virgin Media... Hopefully this isn't history repeating :eek:
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Don't think your alone matey, in work today the internet was slower than dialup and even now at home my speeds have dropped through the floor.
 
Quick question, I had a look on the spreadsheet that was posted earlier in the thread, I have my suspicions that I'm connected directly to my exchange (which is about 300m away), does this mean there is a good chance that I am (and therefore no infinity for me :()

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Meanwhile BE's boss also took the time to answer a few questions about its much delayed plans for a superfast broadband service using BT's 'up to' 40Mbps (soon to be 80Mbps) FTTC technology. Apparently the ISPs first service trial, which is taking place at the Barking (Greater London) telephone exchange, told them a lot and an upgrade plan has now been costed and submitted for approval by O2 UK.

According to the BE Usergroup, which has pasted a summary of Stenning's recent chat with customers, the new service will use a mix of BTOpenreach (cheaper VULA) and BTWholesale based FTTC to deliver its service. BE predicts that its "unlimited and unshaped" superfast package(s) will NOT cost less than the BE Pro service (i.e. £27 a month). Customers are told to "expect a reasonable but not excessive premium".
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http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/20...progress-and-starts-core-network-upgrade.html
 
HangTime said:
You'll undoutedly see diminishing returns in particular in cases where you are bottlenecked by the server. Realistically going from 40mbit to 80mbit doesn't really open any doors in terms of content either i.e. streaming etc should have been fine beforehand.

I'd say the biggest gains from changes like this will likely be people in shared households with a lot of heavy internet users (typically student households).
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It also depends what you do with it. I have a few places I can pull down 100Mb from, and the time difference was obviously something I prefer, but ultimately downgraded back to 50Mb on account of the fact I can't get speeds like that on 99% of the web. I'd pay the extra if my ISP would host their own steam servers though.
 
This is going to be the bottle neck of the future in real terms, not the speed of the broadband connection but the speed the ISP or WEB backbone can deliver it.

With everything on the web now taking up high bandwidth there is bound to be a bottleneck in the system and that's the amount of bandwidth the hosting company charge the website owner's.

End of the day this is BIG business and no hosting company is going to do high bandwidth for free.
 
Have an engineer out on Friday morning for my install. I can't wait. Going from O2 with 3.5/1 to 30/11 (maybe)

With BT business so snagged 5 public ips too.

Anyone else have a static? How are you finding the business hub?
 
I have got RJK to change the title of this thread, to save other threads being created of the same discussion.
 
People who's cabinets have been upgraded. Did anyone here notice other cabinets going up in the area before yours?

Looks like almost every cabinet in Shrewsbury has been done just before christmas except for ours, great. Its down on the list to get done but looks like the workmen have packed up and left town now...

Exchange due to go live March...
 
Nathan said:
People who's cabinets have been upgraded. Did anyone here notice other cabinets going up in the area before yours?

Looks like almost every cabinet in Shrewsbury has been done just before christmas except for ours, great. Its down on the list to get done but looks like the workmen have packed up and left town now...
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Been like this for me for over a year mate. Exchange went live over a year ago. The date goes back every three months. I have seen another cab get done recently but thats on another exchange. And there are no works planned for the next 3 months on my cab. Just wish there was somebody i could contact to find out.

It sucks because my side of the street has been neglected for virgin too, so houses 5 metres away can get both! Sort it out BT!
 
that ll be bad if that happens for me, really want fibre :( I may try and ring BT tmw, see if I get through to anyone in the know. They must have dates on when they contract the work out for the outstanding cabs
 
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