BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

tm1210 · 17 Apr 2012 at 08:43

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Nick1881 · 17 Apr 2012 at 09:13

Is BT speed estimate accurate? I think the cabinet is just round the corner from me, within 500 feet, my estimated ADSL speed was only 5.5 - 7 mb but I could easily get 8-10mb. I think my copper is pretty good.

Edit - I'm not sure if there is one around the corner, on Google street view I can see one 0.6 miles away, can't remember if they added one round the corner, I'll check later.

jamjar · 17 Apr 2012 at 10:03

Nick1881 said:
Is BT speed estimate accurate? I think the cabinet is just round the corner from me, within 500 feet, my estimated ADSL speed was only 5.5 - 7 mb but I could easily get 8-10mb. I think my copper is pretty good.

Edit - I'm not sure if there is one around the corner, on Google street view I can see one 0.6 miles away, can't remember if they added one round the corner, I'll check later.

I think the B.T speed estimate they give you is a lot lower ,so they can be safe that way

my brother who worked for B.T told me not to read to much into what results you get from speed checkers ,its all about the quality of the line and age etc ,plus the Cab distance, but also how the cable runs from the cab to your home too

dfarrall · 17 Apr 2012 at 10:13

rodders said:
I had this, I phoned them and told them that I was in a new build and had NOTHING in my house, they were like, oh, ill make sure he comes to the house. It never changed online, but he turned up luckily.

Interesting, well it's not a new build so thats ok, but ill definatly be hanging around to see if he shows up.

Phonesis · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:01

So it seems like this Infinity roll out is something of a Cabinet lottery for those of us who live in an area where the Exchange has been upgraded? I've read that for BT to be able to class an Exchange as FTTC enabled only 10 cabinets needs to be set up for it. Is there a way to check when a particular cabinet is due to get the upgrade?

The Exchange for the place I'm moving to in July is being upgraded to FTTC in June and, according to SamKnows, only governs around 7000 residential properties. I'm hoping the equates to fewer cabinets in the area and therefore a better chance of the update being available for me soon.

krooton · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:28

I'm in a flat, with a cable running from the box in the communal hallway to my master socket indoors (builders messed up the internal cabling when building the flat, so had the BT guy drill this one and staple it along my skirting board).

If I upgrade, will that cable be able to support the speeds? Do they literally just change the master socket?

Nick1881 · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:42

jamjar said:
I think the B.T speed estimate they give you is a lot lower ,so they can be safe that way my brother who worked for B.T told me not to read to much into what results you get from speed checkers ,its all about the quality of the line and age etc ,plus the Cab distance, but also how the cable runs from the cab to your home too

Thanks, I'd rather have better and more consistent latency, VM seems to be all over the place now. So any improvement over my current 50mb will be great. I'll miss out on the 120mb upgrade but they will only half my speed with their traffic shaping anyway so I'm not bothered.

Rofflay · 17 Apr 2012 at 14:02

So it seems like this Infinity roll out is something of a Cabinet lottery for those of us who live in an area where the Exchange has been upgraded? I've read that for BT to be able to class an Exchange as FTTC enabled only 10 cabinets needs to be set up for it. Is there a way to check when a particular cabinet is due to get the upgrade?

My exchange covers roughly 2500 people yet BT only upgraded 4 cabinet's two of which are outside of town serving thier own village so now there is no fixed number.Most of the town are still stuck on 8MB where as i now have 80/20.

I doubt anyone is keeping tabs on it and i bet BT are doing the bare minimum and then classing exchanges as live and can present a nice coverage % graph to the goverment who are paying for 30% cost of the fibre where i live.I got lucky as the NI govt setup a site showing which cabinets would get upgraded but i doubt you are so lucky.You will most likely just have to wait and pray they come to your cabinet.

Hutchy · 17 Apr 2012 at 14:18

Only BT could introduce a service which "doubles your speed" but actually makes it less than what you had the day before!

jamjar · 17 Apr 2012 at 14:42

Hutchy said:
Only BT could introduce a service which "doubles your speed" but actually makes it less than what you had the day before!

yeah true ..but hasn,t it got to level out after so many days or what i hear on here

muon · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:58

I still can't believe how fast this is. Unnecessarily fast me thinks. WNDR4500 is also a brilliant router.

I have also found that since the initial switch, the sync speed has now increased (76.8Mb/s to 80Mb/s). Anyone else find that happen to them?

ecksmen · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:58

Well, my story is rather pathetic. I've spent the day in waiting for BT install, I gave them a call on Friday and they said yes the visit is planned and going ahead as I hadn't received anything - no email, or welcome pack etc...

Today, the install day and no one has turned up. If they'd of phoned or something I wouldn't have minded so much but I've taken the day off work.

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Apr 2012 at 17:22

Hutchy said:
Only BT could introduce a service which "doubles your speed" but actually makes it less than what you had the day before!

You have rebooted the router havn't you?

Nick1881 · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:13

I checked and there is a fibre cabinet just round the corner from me, it's about 300 feet.

Hopefully the equipment will turn up soon.

I haven't had a BT phone line for a while and when I redecorated I removed the face plate and pulled the wire back through the wall so it's just looped outside, will this cause any problems?

craptakular · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:21

Yay South Woodham Ferrers has been activated for Infinity. I have upgraded my account to get it!!!

Apparently I can get 57mb download. My engineer is coming on the 27th April. What do they actually need to do? It didn't say. I already have the Homehub3...

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:24

Oxy said:
Yay South Woodham Ferrers has been activated for Infinity. I have upgraded my account to get it!!!

Apparently I can get 57mb download. My engineer is coming on the 27th April. What do they actually need to do? It didn't say. I already have the Homehub3...

Don't tell them that you already have a home hub 3. You will be getting a new one delivered anyway.

All the engineer does is activates the line, fits any boxes needed to the wall and ensure it's working.

bremen1874 · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:33

mrbell1984 said:
Don't tell them that you already have a home hub 3. You will be getting a new one delivered anyway.

Q. What's worse than owning a Home Hub 3?
A. Owning two of them.

Has anyone seen any information about 80/20 upgrades from the smaller ISPs?

craptakular · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:34

mrbell1984 said:
Don't tell them that you already have a home hub 3. You will be getting a new one delivered anyway.

All the engineer does is activates the line, fits any boxes needed to the wall and ensure it's working.

Fits a box to the wall??

I'm renting a flat... won't they be mad? Is this a box outside the flat? I'm on the ground floor...

TheOtherOption · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:42

Well having re-booted both the router and HH3 we're still not getting more than we did before although speedtest now thinks we're in Aberdeen

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Apr 2012 at 18:47

bremen1874 said:
Q. What's worse than owning a Home Hub 3?
A. Owning two of them.

Has anyone seen any information about 80/20 upgrades from the smaller ISPs?

lmao, they not that bad for small users.

Oxy said:
Fits a box to the wall??

I'm renting a flat... won't they be mad? Is this a box outside the flat? I'm on the ground floor...

I don't know, I rented and had lines installed before. They won't even notice if you make it discreet.