BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Lord-Jaffa · 4 Jul 2012 at 19:45

Just ordered mine, 17th July date! Was tempted by the BT vision (on demand junk handy for the little one) but ill probably hold on that till they release a HD version, if ever.

Trifid · 4 Jul 2012 at 20:24

Engineer had connected the ring wire, removed that and the phone is working properly again.

Still the same speed though. Oh well...

Orcvader · 4 Jul 2012 at 20:49

kmufc77 said:
Ah well, its not the end of the world if i have to use wireless, i know the wireless wont be half as bad on the Home hub as it is on the superhub

I take it using the second socket in the bedroom would give me a reduced speed as its not the master socket?

I'm actually impressed with the wireless, I'm finding the signal a fair stronger than the O2 wireless box IV.

As for the socket, they usually fit an ADSL filter faceplate on the main socket. This means the filter is part of the master socket, meaning the router must be connected to this one. All other extension sockets will be purely for phones. However, this means you won't need a filter for every phone in the house as well

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Tuvoc · 4 Jul 2012 at 20:49

I'm looking for the extra upload speed. Still, even 9Mb is better than Virgin's 6Mb (assuming I ever get doubled from the existing 3Mb !!)

kmufc77 · 4 Jul 2012 at 21:33

Regarding upload speed, will this improve watching youtube and streams etc as on VM the buffering is awful?

Or is the purely just download for watching things that buffer etc?.

Soz if this is silly question

Gammawolf · 4 Jul 2012 at 23:44

kmufc77 said:
Regarding upload speed, will this improve watching youtube and streams etc as on VM the buffering is awful?

Or is the purely just download for watching things that buffer etc?.

Soz if this is silly question

Pretty much download only.

Orcvader · 5 Jul 2012 at 02:11

So... after a few weeks of Infinity...

Day of install:

After it stabilizes:

And now suddenly, IP profile has been set from Fast to Interleaving, doubling my ping:

iMacMart · 5 Jul 2012 at 08:09

Doubling your ping to 14 :eek:

I'm in a Village and get 6mb, I'd die for those sorts of speeds

cp88 · 5 Jul 2012 at 09:14

I miss my stable 37meg and sub 15ms, so much better than my current unstable 20-50meg and 40ms lowest..

FU DLM.

Orcvader · 5 Jul 2012 at 13:26

Anyone else have no internet connection? Checked the BT site and broadband down in multiple areas. Thank god I have my mobile...

EDIT: Internet is back up. They also randomly decided to put me back on the Fast profile too:

Seems Fast/Interleaving does affect my download speeds...

Stusteel · 5 Jul 2012 at 14:00

Orcvader said:
Anyone else have no internet connection?

BT broadband packs up again - second big outage in a fortnight

This relevant to your loss of connection?

sas.wlv · 5 Jul 2012 at 14:15

Where can you check if you're on fast or interleaving?

Orcvader · 5 Jul 2012 at 14:46

sas.wlv said:
Where can you check if you're on fast or interleaving?

You need to flash the white modem with it's original firmwire over the BT firmwire (which unlocks it and allows you to have control over it's settings): http://huaweihg612hacking.wordpress.com/

Once you do this, you can get all kinds of infomation such as sync speed, profile speed, etc.

FreeStream · 5 Jul 2012 at 18:04

What is the current install time-lag in the Bristol area/generally?

Moving into a new property next week and I'd like to know how long I'd be without net!

thewanted · 5 Jul 2012 at 18:30

Had my Infinity installed today, however my upload speed seems to be maxing out at 8mbit when the Engineer said that his machine reported that the line is good for 20mbit.

Any ideas how to improve it? I believe that waiting 10 days for the line to "train" doesn't apply to FTTC.

Nightglow · 5 Jul 2012 at 18:57

thewanted said:
I believe that waiting 10 days for the line to "train" doesn't apply to FTTC.

Not sure, but mine took 10 days to settle down, kept resyncing several times a day.

thewanted · 5 Jul 2012 at 19:01

Nightglow said:
Not sure, but mine took 10 days to settle down, kept resyncing several times a day.

Ah cool, thanks. I'll try to be patient

The service is already a LOT better than my Virgin Media 50mbit ever was.

Tuvoc · 5 Jul 2012 at 20:35

thewanted said:
Had my Infinity installed today, however my upload speed seems to be maxing out at 8mbit when the Engineer said that his machine reported that the line is good for 20mbit.
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Virgin aren't so bad after all it seems. BT promising speeds it isn't delivering, and what are these big BT outages ? Hopefully just teething problems in both cases.

dfarrall · 6 Jul 2012 at 20:31

Does everyone get peroids, usually short, were they just cant connect to certain sites? usually its almost any site, but sometimes will just fail randomly, and if you retry it works.
Only thing i can think it would be is the DNS, as other internet activities continue as normal.

Edit: So frustrating, some sites working others not at all.

KIA · 6 Jul 2012 at 22:32

Tried different DNS?
Tried performing a traceroute to the problematic sites?