BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Tomsk · 17 Apr 2011 at 16:11

n3vrmind said:
My main concern with FON was that surely any traffic that passes through it could be counted against your usage, if you were on the package that had a 40gb cap or for people on the 300gb cap prior to the cap being lifted any random user could hop on there and blow the cap for you

I checked this out and apparently FON users don't count to any FUP limits. IIRC the answer was on BT's own forum.

Guitarman0 · 17 Apr 2011 at 21:13

Has anyone else found that once a day (sometimes more) their broadband would disconnect for about 30 seconds and the light on the bt home hub 3 go orange?

Saltank · 17 Apr 2011 at 21:52

I don't believe it, it's showing it's AVAILABLE now. AGAIN! This time I'm taking screenshots, so that if it switches back to unavailable, they can't say it wasn't

Broadband checker

opethdisciple · 18 Apr 2011 at 00:58

Saltank said:
I don't believe it, it's showing it's AVAILABLE now. AGAIN! This time I'm taking screenshots, so that if it switches back to unavailable, they can't say it wasn't

Broadband checker

Zen looks very expensive, and the cap is 100Gb.

Doesnt look appealing to me, why do you consider it a good deal?

£45 a month AND a £90 activation fee, I cant see why this would be appealing to any one.

Saltank · 18 Apr 2011 at 08:26

Yes it doesn't seem like good value, and I only used it because that's the checker that's easiest to get to

tehtom · 18 Apr 2011 at 11:36

Got infinity installed today

. I had to wait like 15 days for the engineer appointment but he sorted out our phone wiring, took him like 30mins. Pretty pleased so far!

Was quoted 34mb and so far this is my speed:

Hopefully all goes well, had some problems with BT in the past but they are the only company offering this kind of speed in my area. I live in a pretty rural area and it took us along time just to get normal broadband, so I'm quite surprised and pleased we can get infinity!

Balb0wa · 18 Apr 2011 at 11:38

i opted out of bt fon yesterday, its gone today

cp88 · 18 Apr 2011 at 11:53

Balb0wa said:
i opted out of bt fon yesterday, its gone today

Yup did the same, gone this morning

Rofflay · 19 Apr 2011 at 18:33

tehtom how far are you from the cab? im around 500m max i reckon 400m so i interested to know what your bt estimate was on the infinity checker too

ps gratz

tehtom · 20 Apr 2011 at 01:14

Rofflay said:
tehtom how far are you from the cab? im around 500m max i reckon 400m so i interested to know what your bt estimate was on the infinity checker too

ps gratz

I reckon I'm about 200 or 300m from the cabinet, my estimate on the speed checker was 32.5mb. I'm pretty happy with it so far.

rob_arthur · 20 Apr 2011 at 02:32

we had bt infinity installed last week. our old speedtest was as follows

and after the installation that took about 20 minutes to do we now get the following.

we were quoted at least 30mb so im really pleased with the speed and the time it takes to download files etc is amazing. not sure why the upload speed isnt to great though.

rob

cp88 · 20 Apr 2011 at 09:07

rob_arthur said:
we were quoted at least 30mb so im really pleased with the speed and the time it takes to download files etc is amazing. not sure why the upload speed isnt to great though.

rob

Are you are the unlimited package?? other package is capped to 2meg upload

For anyone wondering about the 300gig FUP, pretty sure its gone I hit 330gig yesterday morning and wasn't capped during peak hours also received no email warning

Number_25 · 20 Apr 2011 at 09:43

Im sorta stuck now lads.

How can I tell if we are able to have BT Infinity?

a lot of people are saying a lot of different things in the area, I belong to the Tonyrefail exchange (CF39)

rob_arthur · 20 Apr 2011 at 11:57

cp88 said:
Are you are the unlimited package?? other package is capped to 2meg upload

thanks for noting that, just asked the parents and yeah it is the one capped at 2mb upload but its also capped with the download usage may need to adjust the package to unlimited me thinks.

Guitarman0 · 22 Apr 2011 at 18:11

Has anyone else seen their speeds drop? On the 14th of April I was receiving 27mbps down (infinity installed on the 11th) and now my speeds have dropped to 20mbps and have been like this since the 17th.

Kanpai · 23 Apr 2011 at 10:13

Guitarman0 said:
Has anyone else seen their speeds drop? On the 14th of April I was receiving 27mbps down (infinity installed on the 11th) and now my speeds have dropped to 20mbps and have been like this since the 17th.

Not for me, had BT Infinity for about two weeks now and still get 37/38 mbps:

ci_newman · 25 Apr 2011 at 22:20

Guitarman0 said:
Has anyone else seen their speeds drop? On the 14th of April I was receiving 27mbps down (infinity installed on the 11th) and now my speeds have dropped to 20mbps and have been like this since the 17th.

Nope, my connection is still running fine too

mrmoose · 25 Apr 2011 at 22:45

Had infinity installed about a month now. Very happy with the service provided but just ran a speed test and noticed that upload was maxed out at 2Mb/s.

When I did tests in the first few weeks i was always getting >6Mb/s. I wouldn't say I was a heavy user but may of downloaded ~160gb in the first month. Would this of affected the upload speed or am I best getting on the phone to them?

Gammawolf · 25 Apr 2011 at 23:58

mrmoose said:
Had infinity installed about a month now. Very happy with the service provided but just ran a speed test and noticed that upload was maxed out at 2Mb/s.

When I did tests in the first few weeks i was always getting >6Mb/s. I wouldn't say I was a heavy user but may of downloaded ~160gb in the first month. Would this of affected the upload speed or am I best getting on the phone to them?

Get on the phone, it should be higher on package 2. Even when they used to throttle, the upload was higher then 2mbps, but they shouldnt be doing anything to your line, i did much worse on my first month and as mentioned they shouldnt care now about how much bandwidth you use.

tehtom · 26 Apr 2011 at 16:28

So I've had infinity a week and its still faster than the estimated I was quoted! Hopefully it will stay this fast.