BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

finite said:
Where did you find that info, was it here?

http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/fibre/checker.php

I had my doubts about my brothers house being on a cabinet, but it confirms there is one on there although it isn't on the initial rollout plan of FTTC for the area.
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I googled about regarding this, and used your link and others to correlate. It seems that my house, like many built in the 80s, are directly connected to the exchange. Your link states this:

Postcode: EH54***
Exchange: Livingston
Service Type:
This postcode has some Exchange Only lines
This means there is currently no cabinet to run FTTC from.
Openreach may deploy FTTC/P in the future to this area.
Probability: 100%
Speed Increase:
Phase :
Cabinet: M_F
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From what I can tell, if the Cabinet is of type M_* then you're directly connected, and you're probably screwed unless they give you FTTP, or they install a cab.

The language above makes this sound like a _maybe_, but every other source I was able to find tells me otherwise. I guess if your results look like mine, you're simply not getting it for foreseeable future. :(
 
aln said:
I googled about regarding this, and used your link and others to correlate. It seems that my house, like many built in the 80s, are directly connected to the exchange. Your link states this:



From what I can tell, if the Cabinet is of type M_* then you're directly connected, and you're probably screwed unless they give you FTTP, or they install a cab.

The language above makes this sound like a _maybe_, but every other source I was able to find tells me otherwise. I guess if your results look like mine, you're simply not getting it for foreseeable future. :(
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Ah, this information makes sense. Many of the houses around me were built in the 80's and thus this rumour of being directly connected to the exchange.

Is there any way to find out what the cabinet identifier means? Or where it might be located? Mine is "P13" according to that site.
 
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FirebarUK said:
Ah, this information makes sense. Many of the houses around me were built in the 80's and thus this rumour of being directly connected to the exchange.

Is there any way to find out what the cabinet identifier means? Mine is "P13" according to that site.
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P* means you have a cab. 13 may refer to the cab number, but I'm not sure on that one. Like I said, I pullled that from _the interwebs_ so take it with a pinch of salt, but I tend to believe it. From the link I read (which was on the bt community forums - I don't have it anymore) P and M were the only prefixes, there was no mention of what the other characters / numbers ment. :)
 
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FirebarUK said:
Ah, this information makes sense. Many of the houses around me were built in the 80's and thus this rumour of being directly connected to the exchange.

Is there any way to find out what the cabinet identifier means? Or where it might be located? Mine is "P13" according to that site.
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Take a walk and look for a green cabinet with 13 on it. The number might be very faded though I've seen some cabinets get new numbers during FTTC roll-outs.
 
aln said:
P* means you have a cab. 13 may refer to the cab number, but I'm not sure on that one. Like I said, I pullled that from _the interwebs_ so take it with a pinch of salt, but I tend to believe it. From the link I read (which was on the bt community forums - I don't have it anymore) P and M were the only prefixes, there was no mention of what the other characters / numbers ment. :)
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I wonder where the chuff it is, I can't find it anywhere :D
 
Downloading a file from Rapidshare atm and only hitting 800kB/s. Hope my ethernet cable comes soon! Considering my ethernet speeds are constantly above 70Mbps and my WiFi fluctuates from 5Mbps (no joke) to 50Mbps, would that most likely mean it's the router or something interfering with the signal such as my walls? I tested a laptop via WiFi in the same room as the router earlier and couldn't hit the same speeds as ethernet.
 
FirebarUK said:
I wonder where the chuff it is, I can't find it anywhere :D
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http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/What-Cabinet-am-I-connected-to/td-p/355399/page/13

I'm not sure where the initial source is, but I'd presume it was an unoffical leak from an OR engineer or something.

Example Anything that has {M_A}
{M_B}
{M_C} etc etc is directly connected.
Anything with {P1}
{P2}
{P3} etc etc is connected via cabinet
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http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/Information-on-Cabinet-upgrade-please/td-p/438129

Taken from the spreadsheet.
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Which spreadsheet is that? I assume it it's the pcp-to-postcode spreadsheet which was (accidentally?) leaked by openreach. Google that takes me to the actual leaked docs, which are from dec. Someone stuck a google doc you can search here. The file doesn't display properly in Calc for me, so I'm not sure if it actually says supports that opinion. Feel free to check it out though:-

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_m...k1Zi00NjY4LWE5NzUtZTE3ODZkNzgxN2Qy/edit?pli=1

I've been through the first file, and couldn't find a single M_* cab with either FTTP or FTTC. I live in hope, but I think I'm stuck with 'high speed' VM which struggles to stream from youtube. :D
 
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sharingan_sasuk said:
I was sad to leave O2 as I have been with them for a very long time and they have excellent customer service. However, being able to have 75+Mbps compared to the 7Mbps I was getting with O2 was too tempting!
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Thanks for the reply, I'm wondering what the customer service and general service is like though?

Are they OK to deal with? Are problems resolved quickly and efficiently? Is there any throttling? Are there bandwidth and data restrictions?
 
Just experienced my first halt in speed and had to reboot my HH3 router to get it up to speed again. Getting really addictive now these speed tests. I know they aren't accurate but I got 3 up on my browser to run at any time!
 
varkanoid said:
Perhaps if you could tell us your connection speed might help.

"6mbit down" is good for upto 40 meg connection.
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varkanoid said:
I think you will probably find there is a confusion between bits and bytes.
6 megabits for a 40 megabit connection is about 75k per second. Okay not good but you hardly ever see anyone say 6 megabits more likely 75k per second. Or maybe its just me brought up in the dial up modem age.
If they mean 6 megabytes per second download then it is good as 40 megabit connection divide by 8 equates to 5 megabyte per second.

Hence why I said "Perhaps if you could tell us your connection speed might help."

needs further clarification.
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What on earth are you talking about?

I'd have thought it was obvious when someone writes mbit they mean megaBITS as opposed to megaBYTES.

And did you not notice that every one of the speedtest results people post are all in Mb (which means megabit!)
 
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sharingan_sasuk said:
Downloading a file from Rapidshare atm and only hitting 800kB/s. Hope my ethernet cable comes soon! Considering my ethernet speeds are constantly above 70Mbps and my WiFi fluctuates from 5Mbps (no joke) to 50Mbps, would that most likely mean it's the router or something interfering with the signal such as my walls? I tested a laptop via WiFi in the same room as the router earlier and couldn't hit the same speeds as ethernet.
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If your laptop is wireless N you may need to increase the channel width on the router to 40mhz to get over 65mbs
 
Mines been regraded by Zen. :D

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I know my FTTC is only a day old now but I'm getting 35-50 down and 2 up. Supposed to get ~70 down and 20 up, please tell me it'll get better. I hate to have to spam my ISP to get an engineer out.
 
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