BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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yeah it looks good but going to be high price ,and really only aimed at business people i think , households only need the 100meg service reallyFTTP
No. It's a consumer product and will have consumer pricing.
We were out of contract with BT so I have managed to snaffle Infinity Option 2 @ £17.50 per month
(line rental in advance @ £129) I was very suprised at how much they were willing to knock off to keep our business rather than bogging off to Sky!
Our estimate is for 48/10 approx - what we get in reality I don't know but anything has to be better than awful 2.5 - 3 we get on adsl
(line rental in advance @ £129) I was very suprised at how much they were willing to knock off to keep our business rather than bogging off to Sky! Our estimate is for 48/10 approx - what we get in reality I don't know but anything has to be better than awful 2.5 - 3 we get on adsl
330Mbps, how pointless...
Why don't they focus on getting 100Mbps FTTP to everyone quicker instead
couldn,t of put it any better !! seems crazy to jump from 100 to 300 ! why not get the FTTP 100meg sorted out across the UK ,,,then go for 300meg ..oh well guess thats why i,m not the B.T Chairman lol
It probably has something to do with not needing to dig up roads, and push Fibre in order to give higher speeds. I'm all for FTTP everywhere (as long as they do me first), but to think one is dependent on the other is silly.
I wouldn't mind 330, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just an attempt at killing the Virgin Media marketing machine.
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Of course they do, but having 330 download for < £100 p/m is still a good buy for shared housing such as students, and small businesses. Shame the upload is so **** though.
you never say megabit for download speed when downloading a file though do you usually say megabyte as in when you see the file transfer window it shows megabytes not megabits thats what I was implying the OP originally meant "6 megabytes down for a 40 megabit connection".
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I'm experiencing similar results too, but I have faith in this 10 day 'settling in' period. In the meantime, I'm going to directly connect my PC upstairs to the hub downstairs, via RJ45 or Powerline as I have noticed I get 75Mbps+ compared to erratic speeds via WiFi. I'm sure it's a wireless thing as the engineer tested the line and showed me his 'couple thousand pounds worth' meter which showed a full 80Mbps down/20Mbps up speed and said to ignore these useless online speed tests.
Openreach prices are as followed:-
Speed | Annual | Customer
100/15 = 154.80 = £35 pm (from bt)
330/20 = 295.32 = $?? pm
100/30 = 436.32 = £100 pm (from claranet, can't find BT's price but I read it was £80)
Apparently they're going to be offering an 80/20 FTTP (assuming they want to match the FTTC price) and 220/20 as well, probably before the end of the year.
Speed | Annual | Customer
100/15 = 154.80 = £35 pm (from bt)
330/20 = 295.32 = $?? pm
100/30 = 436.32 = £100 pm (from claranet, can't find BT's price but I read it was £80)
Apparently they're going to be offering an 80/20 FTTP (assuming they want to match the FTTC price) and 220/20 as well, probably before the end of the year.
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330Mbps, how pointless...
Why don't they focus on getting 100Mbps FTTP to everyone quicker instead
It's fibre. It doesn't matter what speed it runs at. 10mbit, 100mbit, 1000mbit 10000mbit, all the same. It only needs to be deployed once.
Apparently the company Openreach are using Kellys for the cabinets, are installing them faster than they can be commissioned.
But,at some locations things are being delayed due to lack of capacity in the ducts & damaged ducts, etc.
But,at some locations things are being delayed due to lack of capacity in the ducts & damaged ducts, etc.
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Pretty sure it still costs them money to upgrade, advertising, testing, training staff etc
Probably not a great deal.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for FTTP, especially so as it sounds like I won't ever get FTTC but correlating the two doesn't make sense.
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I now see a BTFON and a BTOpenzone-H network available via WiFi. Never noticed them there before. They are both open and unsecured. They aren't coming from my own personal router are they because that could mean anyone in the nearby area can connect to it and slow down my connection? I have a feeling it's to do with my BT Infinity installation yesterday and when I look at my WiFi scanner, it operates on the same channel and has the same signal as my HH3...
Pretty sure it still costs them money to upgrade, advertising, testing, training staff etc
300Mb/s product isn't more expensive than 100Mb/s to deploy, etc. A slower product will be available if the end-user doesn't require a super fast connection.