BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Every 2 days my draytek will lose connection and reconnect to the internet, meaning i get rougly 20 secs of downtown. Not normally a problem but i have had it occur during a livestream and during a mw3 clan match which was not good!

Anyway i noticed that when the draytek initially connected i was getting a SNR downstream of 116 (11.6) and an SNR upstream of say 65 (6.5). I did some reading and it seems that this upstream snr is pretty low already. Anyways, i checked over the course of 24 hours on the draytek online status page and it steadily drops until it reaches 0. Within the next few hours it will then do the disconnect and reconnect.

I am synching at 39985/9999 if that helps. At a loss here. Before i moved over to the 17a profile i was rock solid.

I am pretty sure that engineer said that my line was aluminium. Could that be affecting my upstream stability or is it the draytek router. I havent really used the OR modem/HH3 at all since getting infinity so i am not sure if its stable on that setup.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
 
Hmm, anyone have any experience with moving and keeping BT services, BT website says any service they can't provide at your new address can have the contract stopped at no cost.

I'm not sure if that means if you get 40mb infinity and you move somewhere that has 20mb infinity you'd be stuck with that. Though of course if it has 20mb and not 40mb..... that would be the max I could get so not the worst thing ever, though 20mb infinity isn't particularly cheap I don't think and Virgin might be a viable alternative(its not here, old crappy network area, tried it, awful performance :( ).

Might phone up BT tomorrow and ask if its possible orders can be done but its not "on the system" yet so won't show up on the website. Had a lot of problems with Be of late, just seems like local area is likely oversubscribed as its been getting slower and slower for a couple years, gradually at first, increasing more.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Hmm, anyone have any experience with moving and keeping BT services, BT website says any service they can't provide at your new address can have the contract stopped at no cost.

I'm not sure if that means if you get 40mb infinity and you move somewhere that has 20mb infinity you'd be stuck with that. Though of course if it has 20mb and not 40mb..... that would be the max I could get so not the worst thing ever, though 20mb infinity isn't particularly cheap I don't think and Virgin might be a viable alternative(its not here, old crappy network area, tried it, awful performance :( ).

Might phone up BT tomorrow and ask if its possible orders can be done but its not "on the system" yet so won't show up on the website. Had a lot of problems with Be of late, just seems like local area is likely oversubscribed as its been getting slower and slower for a couple years, gradually at first, increasing more.
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Let us know how you get on as I will have to do something similar this year.

Building a new house at the minute and the post code checker says I will only get ~20Mb down and ~1.3Mb up from BT at new address. I know the checker isn't that accurate but going from top to half speed won't be nice.
 
hehe, think you'll be finished before me if you're already started on the build ;)

I mean, its not a huge deal, whatever BT have in the area as fastest internet isn't going to kill us, VIrgin might be an option but, meh. The biggest issue is 40mb is £25, and 20mb is £25, I have no problem paying £25 for 40mb but if we get stuck on 20mb in the future at the same cost for the rest of 18 months its fairly rubbish as you can get Bethere significantly cheaper.
 
Well there's always the possibility of paying BT to lay the fibre direct to your house for a once off fee. They announced recently that they would be looking at doing this but no concrete details were included.

If it can be done for a reasonable cost (reasonable varies for each person), I will seriously look at doing it.
 
AMMUT said:
Well there's always the possibility of paying BT to lay the fibre direct to your house for a once off fee. They announced recently that they would be looking at doing this but no concrete details were included.

If it can be done for a reasonable cost (reasonable varies for each person), I will seriously look at doing it.
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I read somewhere recently, there was mention of BT starting this FTTP in the spring of 2013.
 
anyone having speed issues at the moment. I'm hovering around 10mbps according to speedtest.net and bt speedtest ?

(wireless admittedly)
 
all fine here

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