BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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(Also on the High Wycombe exchange)
BT said that it'll be enabled 30th June, though today it now says 07-April-2011.
Wireless is always going to be hit and miss at these speeds, but those fixed-line stats look greatQuite a high ping though..
The ping speed seems to be better for other speedtest locations (18ms London, 16ms Milton Keynes - both on wireless)
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It seems I've just been enabled (estimate 29Mb) 
Does BT Infinity have any limits / FUP I should be aware of? Their website mentions about FUP but no actual figures, they use to mention 300GB but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I'm currently on BE (5Mb) and downloading 200-300GB a month, not sure if it's worth leaving for BT.
3.3KM from exchange btw, hence slow speeds
Does BT Infinity have any limits / FUP I should be aware of? Their website mentions about FUP but no actual figures, they use to mention 300GB but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I'm currently on BE (5Mb) and downloading 200-300GB a month, not sure if it's worth leaving for BT.
3.3KM from exchange btw, hence slow speeds
It seems I've just been enabled (estimate 29Mb)
Does BT Infinity have any limits / FUP I should be aware of? Their website mentions about FUP but no actual figures, they use to mention 300GB but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Currently 300gig but they are in the process of scraping it (anytime soon) no way I would have ordered otherwise.
http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed-Connection-Issues/BT-TO-SCRAP-300GB-LIMIT/td-p/141261/page/9
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It seems I've just been enabled (estimate 29Mb)
Does BT Infinity have any limits / FUP I should be aware of? Their website mentions about FUP but no actual figures, they use to mention 300GB but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I'm currently on BE (5Mb) and downloading 200-300GB a month, not sure if it's worth leaving for BT.
3.3KM from exchange btw, hence slow speeds
I had an estimate of 29Mb, sync speed was actually 38Mbps
It seems I've just been enabled (estimate 29Mb)
Does BT Infinity have any limits / FUP I should be aware of? Their website mentions about FUP but no actual figures, they use to mention 300GB but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I'm currently on BE (5Mb) and downloading 200-300GB a month, not sure if it's worth leaving for BT.
3.3KM from exchange btw, hence slow speeds
I was on Be* too getting around 5Mb and switched over to BT Infinity.
There is no FUP cap anymore, as of this month.
Had mine installed yesterday - it's fantastic
Had a conversation with the BT engineer who was saying that for many Infinity customers, WiFi equipment is the bottleneck now. Sure enough, my work Windows laptop can only get 25Mbps download whereas my Mac gets 35Mbps download both over WiFi in the same place in the house. Quite a difference. I was vaguely aware that Apple put in a better WiFi solution than found on most Windows laptops. Can anyone explain further?
Had a conversation with the BT engineer who was saying that for many Infinity customers, WiFi equipment is the bottleneck now. Sure enough, my work Windows laptop can only get 25Mbps download whereas my Mac gets 35Mbps download both over WiFi in the same place in the house. Quite a difference. I was vaguely aware that Apple put in a better WiFi solution than found on most Windows laptops. Can anyone explain further?
Had mine installed yesterday - it's fantastic
Had a conversation with the BT engineer who was saying that for many Infinity customers, WiFi equipment is the bottleneck now. Sure enough, my work Windows laptop can only get 25Mbps download whereas my Mac gets 35Mbps download both over WiFi in the same place in the house. Quite a difference. I was vaguely aware that Apple put in a better WiFi solution than found on most Windows laptops. Can anyone explain further?
Does your Windows laptop have wireless-g and the Mac have wireless-n? We've got 6-7 cheapo (< £300) Windows laptops here and they all get 37.5Mbps apart from the one with wireless-g (which gets 22-25Mbps).
Woot! Same exchange here, was 30th March, then 30th June, now its suddenly live!
Also on Be with 6 down and 1 up (3db profile)
I'm only a couple of hundred meters from the cab, my estimate is this...
So, who to go with thats my next question, are BT actually any good?
Was looking at either IDNET's Home Plus Fibre or ADSL24's Fibre 30 Pro originally.
Just looked is BT an 18 month contract!?
Just had Infinity installed this morning, loving the speeds so far. I'm about 400-500 metres to the cabinet yet sync at the full 40/10.
Even better, the engineer let me look at his line checker tool which said my line is capable of 63meg down and 20meg up without the cap that BT currently have in-place. Should be good for the future.
Speedtest result:
Even better, the engineer let me look at his line checker tool which said my line is capable of 63meg down and 20meg up without the cap that BT currently have in-place. Should be good for the future.
Speedtest result:
Yup. 18 month contract via BT Retail (Infinity) or 12 month contract via BT Wholesale (FTTC Resellers).
Edit - Hi Inflict. Didn't realise it was you initially.
PS - I'm on IDNets Home SuperPro Fibre if you have any questions.
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IDNet, like all current FTTC suppliers, are at the mercy of BTW and their BRAS system which has caused a couple of problems (mainly over Christmas) but that asside they're fine.
I was with Be before and used to sync at 16mbps down, 1mbps up. Now it's 40mbps down, 10mbps (IP Profile of 38,718).
The only factor I miss is being able to have some control over my connection. With Be I could switch between Interleave and Fastpath and alter my target SNR which has it's obvious advantages.
I was with Be before and used to sync at 16mbps down, 1mbps up. Now it's 40mbps down, 10mbps (IP Profile of 38,718).
The only factor I miss is being able to have some control over my connection. With Be I could switch between Interleave and Fastpath and alter my target SNR which has it's obvious advantages.
NEW BT Anouncement for further exchanges apparently-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/bt_fibre_rollout_156_exchanges/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/bt_fibre_rollout_156_exchanges/
Quite possibly - I've never really paid much attention to this before, best broadband speed I could previously get was 3Mb so was never an issue
Ah thats a good point, do you still get Fastpath etc on VDSL?
I spoke to an engineer today and he said that talktalk will have something similar to LLU at the exchange but for FTTC. I hope BE jump on that as I can only get around 6mb at the moment
I don't want to go with BT due to the traffic management BS.
I don't want to go with BT due to the traffic management BS.