BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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They have a 'new speed test beta' for connections faster than 24Mbps.
I am due installation tomorrow (11th) is there anything in particular I should ask the engineer to do/check for optimisation?
Computer is upstairs using extended socket and master socket is 15m away downstairs so is used for the phone only as its not practical to have an ethernet cable running throughout the house lol
Computer is upstairs using extended socket and master socket is 15m away downstairs so is used for the phone only as its not practical to have an ethernet cable running throughout the house lol
For FTTC? Then, no, existing wiring.
I don't know what that means, but it's for BT Infinity 2 @ 76mb/19mb jobbie
Hoping they won't have to cause the drive is brand new lol
BT Infinity, they won't touch your driveway.
BT standard phone line is copper wiring to your local cabinet and then copper back to the exchange.
With Infinity, it uses the new cabinets which are connected to the exchange via fibre, this allows them to give a high speed connection to people without having to dig up your road, as the degredation of the signal over (upto) 1km via the copper from the cabinet to your house is marginal.
BT standard phone line is copper wiring to your local cabinet and then copper back to the exchange.
With Infinity, it uses the new cabinets which are connected to the exchange via fibre, this allows them to give a high speed connection to people without having to dig up your road, as the degredation of the signal over (upto) 1km via the copper from the cabinet to your house is marginal.
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Hello all,
Had my BT Infinity installation today, probably about six hours ago. Currently getting 6mbit down and 7mbit up, I assume that this will sort itself out?!
Had my BT Infinity installation today, probably about six hours ago. Currently getting 6mbit down and 7mbit up, I assume that this will sort itself out?!
Well my install went live at midnight last night. As I suggested the estimate was wrong.
My speed tests are coming back at 72/16, not the 41/7 that was estimated.
No idea on the HH3, but if the x20e has an Ethernet WAN port and you can configure that for PPPoE then it should be fine. I use a SonicWall appliance on my home FTTC.
I see Openreach is apparently on a roll with fibre, covered an area comprising some ten million premises (40% of the UK) & are ahead of the schedule for their summer 2012 target.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/...er-fibre-services-pass-ten-million-homes.html
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/...er-fibre-services-pass-ten-million-homes.html
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I'm in Bath luckily I have Infinity , but certain parts of the city haven't been done due to lack of conduit space, & other issues like shallow conduits being squashed, there also other areas only a few miles from the city still delayed.
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So I ordered Infinity last month a few days after my cabinet was enabled, but they said they'll call us back when they get a free engineer appointment within a weeks time. A week later... nothing. So after 2 weeks past I called them back, they said the order has gone through but still no engineer appointment, and will try get it sorted within a few days. Well here I am, still waiting a month after, with no word from BT. Are they usually this slow sorting out an engineer for Infinity? Last year it was only a 3 days or so wait for one to come when they was fixing my ADSL line.
Perhaps if you could tell us your connection speed might help.
"6mbit down" is good for upto 40 meg connection.
6 Megabit down is good for an up to 40 Megabit connection? No it's not.
But yes some more details are required, like using wired or wireless? Speed tests or real-world download speeds?