BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

lozzd said:
Heh, you wish.

The technical trial doesn't finish until the end of March, at which point people on the trial pay up or go back to 40mbit. In effect: there's no way BT retail to launch it to their customers at large any time before then, since it's still in a trial period.

The engineer who told you 80/20 "would be available soon" was more than likely giving out the slightly delayed information that *technically* 80/20 is available "soon"... or, already is, to a wide audience, as of a few weeks ago.
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I was referring to the first day of spring. Not the 80/20 start date :rolleyes:
 
.Griff. said:
He's entirely correct. All this "better functionality" is simply BT lies and smokescreens to cover the fact the early modems are failing at an alarming rate.
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Perhaps BT should have got Draytek or someone else to come up with something, nothing too fancy, just more reliable, & not locked down..
 
Well, one day on and my speeds are about the same. Thankfully DLM hasn't felt the need to tinker with my line. 47meg is as good as it gets for me it seems.

 
Nightglow said:
Perhaps BT should have got Draytek or someone else to come up with something, nothing too fancy, just more reliable, & not locked down..
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The point of locking down is to stop your average Joe changing the odd setting, breaking things and then generating more calls to a helpdesk.
 
MagicUK said:
:mad:

How do you find out this information? My cab has been whirling away since December and still can't order.
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Mines near enough the same, my cab was installed in November last year. However, I still cant order as the BT Wholesale checker states "Your cabinet is planned to have WBC FTTC by 31st March 2012" :confused::(
 
Nice, BT guys fiddling with a box down the end of the road, stopped and asked them and they've basically just finished hooking up fibre so its all done but they have no idea when I'll be able to order as cabinet being done and actually being enabled/orderable is very different.

It's finally done though and can't be too far away.

Anyone know the Bethere/Sky rumours on fibre? I had hoped to go with Bt several months ago(as our exchange was done SO long ago now), go with BT for 18 months then hope to go back to Be or, whoever is doing cheaper/non Bt service by then.

Though Sky might end up noticeably cheaper for fibre if you have their whole package, Be I'm not sure will end up any cheaper than Bt anyway.

Hmm, lastly, anyone know the situation with BT and moving, if you sign up to an 18 month contract for 40mb and move, do they expect you to pay out the contract, or transfer to the new place, will they let you off if you move somewhere that doesn't have 40mb available? THere's a fairly good chance we'll move within the next year now.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Nice, BT guys fiddling with a box down the end of the road, stopped and asked them and they've basically just finished hooking up fibre so its all done but they have no idea when I'll be able to order as cabinet being done and actually being enabled/orderable is very different.

It's finally done though and can't be too far away.

Anyone know the Bethere/Sky rumours on fibre? I had hoped to go with Bt several months ago(as our exchange was done SO long ago now), go with BT for 18 months then hope to go back to Be or, whoever is doing cheaper/non Bt service by then.

Though Sky might end up noticeably cheaper for fibre if you have their whole package, Be I'm not sure will end up any cheaper than Bt anyway.

Hmm, lastly, anyone know the situation with BT and moving, if you sign up to an 18 month contract for 40mb and move, do they expect you to pay out the contract, or transfer to the new place, will they let you off if you move somewhere that doesn't have 40mb available? THere's a fairly good chance we'll move within the next year now.
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I wouldnt risk it if you are moving, I`d stick with ADSL especially if you can cancel within 30 days.
 
OMG!!!!! After 11 months of utter tird 1.3MB/s cutting out 7 times every evening, BT have come over to install a new router. Land lord didnt tell anyone & i was working from home so at first was quite p*ssed.

So 20 minues later & BOOM 4.5MB/s. Not bad for BT i must say. Guessing its next gen fibre or something.

Going from a 50mb/s cable 50% off deal (65mb/s at night) to the moving house for a new job to the BT line was soul crushing.


....now im moving house in a month. I swear its some kind of sick joke.
 
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