BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

ChrisD. · 22 Jul 2012 at 09:10

Does this thread not give good enough information?

kmufc77 · 22 Jul 2012 at 14:11

can someone recommend a router for BT Infinity please, budget is £40 - £50

The Halk · 22 Jul 2012 at 14:17

MilanoChris said:
Does this thread not give good enough information?

Apparently not. He's too lazy or stupid to type a sentence properly so he'll likely be too lazy or stupid to do his own research.

ChrisD. · 22 Jul 2012 at 14:22

kmufc77 said:
can someone recommend a router for BT Infinity please, budget is £40 - £50

Increase your budget slightly and buy the Asus RT-N56U.

The Halk said:
Apparently not. He's too lazy or stupid to type a sentence properly so he'll likely be too lazy or stupid to do his own research.

Hear, hear.

kmufc77 · 22 Jul 2012 at 14:23

i cant chris, thats all i have, i need to get rid of the HH3 ASAP

40-50 is all i have

Alex_6n2 · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:14

Is anyone else running slow today?

My connection has been flawless since the day I got it (Apart from when the whole BT network went down). But now my connection has slowed to a crawl...

.Griff. · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:22

Alex_6n2 said:
Is anyone else running slow today?

My connection has been flawless since the day I got it (Apart from when the whole BT network went down). But now my connection has slowed to a crawl...

Seems to be affecting south Wales and the Midlands so far.

My connection is next to useless at the moment.

ChrisD. · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:45

kmufc77 said:
i cant chris, thats all i have, i need to get rid of the HH3 ASAP

40-50 is all i have

In which case I'd suggest a second hand DIR 655.

The Halk · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:47

Ang on a second... why a router for BT Infinity? My Home Hub 3 comes next week, is it so terrible that a midrange router improves it?

DirtyJester · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:51

The Halk said:
Ang on a second... why a router for BT Infinity? My Home Hub 3 comes next week, is it so terrible that a midrange router improves it?

They aint that bad for free mate. I've had nothing that reboot won't sort mine out (and that's not that often either).

ChrisD. · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:54

The Halk said:
Ang on a second... why a router for BT Infinity? My Home Hub 3 comes next week, is it so terrible that a midrange router improves it?

I've never used it for various reasons, but only 1 Gbit port puts me off mostly.

Danthus · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:54

Alex_6n2 said:
Is anyone else running slow today?

My connection has been flawless since the day I got it (Apart from when the whole BT network went down). But now my connection has slowed to a crawl...

.Griff. said:
Seems to be affecting south Wales and the Midlands so far.

My connection is next to useless at the moment.

My connection has been awful since about 1pm, I am in Cheshire.

The Halk · 22 Jul 2012 at 15:59

MilanoChris said:
I've never used it for various reasons, but only 1 Gbit port puts me off mostly.

Ah, my Sky router has none. I just have a gigabit switch attached to it.

PaulM · 22 Jul 2012 at 16:02

Alex_6n2 said:
Is anyone else running slow today?

My connection has been flawless since the day I got it (Apart from when the whole BT network went down). But now my connection has slowed to a crawl...

Yeah, since about 1:30pm mine has been running really slow (Cornwall). First problem in the last 5-6 months.

BT confirms the South West is having problems: http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status

Alex_6n2 · 22 Jul 2012 at 16:19

Yea apparently one of the centres in South Wales has lost power

Cleeecooo · 22 Jul 2012 at 17:45

I've just received my second BT homehub 3 (I had one before I upgraded to infinity), am I allowed to sell it? If I do, will it work with anyone's Internet?

bob055 · 22 Jul 2012 at 18:02

Having Issues here in west mids, Really Slow/limited connection

DirtyJester · 22 Jul 2012 at 18:05

bob055 said:
Having Issues here in west mids, Really Slow/limited connection

None here ... as yet

BrianB · 22 Jul 2012 at 18:06

I believe it only works with BT broadband, I tried to use it before my home move but it wouldn't accept the login. I think it's possible to use it as a wifi repeater but it has awful wifi power anyway.

At the moment I just have an Edimax AP plugged into my BT Hub 3, works wonders, puts wireless speed up to 135mbps instead of the terrible 56mb the BT Hub does.

What's the best router for replacing the BTHub? Just out of interest. I've had 1 connection drop which lasted about a minute. Speed is 80/20, from 7/0.9 very happy.

.Griff. · 22 Jul 2012 at 18:10

bob055 said:
Having Issues here in west mids, Really Slow/limited connection

08001114567

That's the BT Infinity number which now has a recorded message confirming a "major fault". People from the south west, Wales, West Midlands, Derbyshire and as we head into the evening people from the Manchester area all reporting problems since lunchtime.

EDIT -

BT have updated their status page again. It now includes the areas I mentioned before.

Sun 22/07/2012 at 15:18 Ongoing Broadband problem in the Manchester, Birmingham, South Wales & South West UK
More details

Estimated time to resolve: 19:30

Dialling codes affected: 02380, 02392, 01934, 01736, 01637, 01202, 014252, 01237, 01872, 01579, 01761, 01225, 01579, 0161, 0121, 01308, 01726,

We're really sorry but we've got a problem at the moment in the Manchester, Birmingham, South Wales & South West UK areas. This may be cauisng an intermittent broadband connection. , We're trying to fix the problem as quickly as we can.