BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

palaw · 28 Jul 2012 at 18:48

orangeman2003 said:
u already do to a certain extent.

Im not hiding from anyone lol

Not quite sure your 'location' on your profile and out right drawing a map to your house is the same lol. Oh well, your choice

orangeman2003 · 28 Jul 2012 at 18:58

lets keep on topic yh

lol

cba to trail it off

Number_25 · 28 Jul 2012 at 23:37

Is it possible to request a connection in specifically for your house?

Fed up of being behind the rest of the world on my crappy 10mbp/s connection.

Nightglow · 29 Jul 2012 at 10:36

My patience is failing fast with BT, been having issues with FTTC lately.

Been getting 0.01Mbps upload on several occasions during the last two weeks, raise a ticket with BT, & got an email saying 'The connection is running within acceptable limits as set by our suppliers'.

Lost for words when I read that this morning, is it worth while taking the complaint further, but who to complain to.

orangeman2003 · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:06

Nightglow said:
My patience is failing fast with BT, been having issues with FTTC lately.

Been getting 0.01Mbps upload on several occasions during the last two weeks, raise a ticket with BT, & got an email saying 'The connection is running within acceptable limits as set by our suppliers'.

Lost for words when I read that this morning, is it worth while taking the complaint further, but who to complain to.

get on the phone

supervisor/managers of depts

KIA · 29 Jul 2012 at 11:35

orangeman2003 said:
Do u guys think this is slow for the distance from cab 57 to my house? Can i change cab? Is there any way i can find out if my overhead wires are copper or not? I guess most info ill have to provide when line and bt infinity is installed?.

Plot the distance http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm

Might be an aluminium line.

orangeman2003 · 29 Jul 2012 at 18:18

cheers KIA for the response and help

the longest route via road is

980 meters which by the looks of it is the route the cables take

Nightglow · 29 Jul 2012 at 20:04

Thanks KIA, very useful, figures it gave me were within a few metres of mine.

Westyfield2 · 29 Jul 2012 at 22:06

Nightglow said:
I knew of several people who hopped from the Combe down exchange to Kingsmead just to get fttc, one house had two lines, one Kingsmead & other Combe down, due to which pole they were using.

That's very interesting, will look into that! Unfortunately for wiring (but good for aesthetics) our road all has buried cables rather than poles so it might be a bit more work...

Nightglow · 29 Jul 2012 at 22:17

Westyfield2 said:
That's very interesting, will look into that! Unfortunately for wiring (but good for aesthetics) our road all has buried cables rather than poles so it might be a bit more work...

Most likely expensive.

I'm having problems with fttc here, there are two poles, the front one which I'm on gives 40Mb on a good day, the one in the rear garden would give me around 62Mb+, both served by same cabinet, but it's proving extremely difficult getting moved.

The Halk · 29 Jul 2012 at 23:05

So it turns out that it's BT's speed test "at fault", and speedtest.net and the java speedtest - which showed nothing new, now that it finally works.

If I start enough threads in an upload I can hit 19Mbit.

I can't answer why BT can't give me a decent speed even in a single thread to what should be their own internal server, but if I ever need to do a large upload for some reason then I'll just multithread it.

orangeman2003 · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:13

just got the phone line and bt broadband activated with a little issue they fixed within a few hours

the stats below were superfluous, so i have removed them

.Griff. · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:16

orangeman2003 said:
stats below if it helps

Helps what?!? Anyone else confused?

orangeman2003 · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:16

.Griff. said:
Helps what?!? Anyone else confused?

did u not think to read more than 1 post?

.Griff. · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:18

orangeman2003 said:
did u not think to read more than 1 post?

Indeed I did.

However ADSL stats don't have anything to do with FTTC/VDSL2 and therefore your post is completely superfluous.

Did you not think about that?

orangeman2003 · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:21

.Griff. said:
Indeed I did.

However ADSL stats don't have anything to do with FTTC/VDSL2 and therefore your post is completely superfluous.

Did you not think about that?

did u not think i have no brain?

did u not think about that?!

lol in all seriousness i had no idea

thanks for the help, i shall post back once infinity is installed

.Griff. · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:28

With ADSL* the DSLAM/MSAN is located in the exchange so any line stats will be from your modem to the exchange. This could be a few hundred yards to a few miles.

With FTTC/VDSL2 the DSLAM is located in the cabinet (the new cabinets popping up alongside the existing PCP's) so it's not practical to try and make any interpretations of potential speed based on ADSL* line stats.

The Halk · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:38

Is it possible to get rid of the Openreach modem and just have a router? In other words are there any routers at all with the modem built in?

.Griff. · 30 Jul 2012 at 19:40

The Halk said:
Is it possible to get rid of the Openreach modem and just have a router? In other words are there any routers at all with the modem built in?

There's a few. Fritzbox 7390, Draytek 2850, Billion 7800n off the top of my head.

The Halk · 30 Jul 2012 at 20:37

I think I'll hang off and see. I'm with BT for the next 18 months, but by the time that's ended there might be more available. There's not much benefit really by changing to an all in one device, and I don't want to have it be useless in 18 months time when I have to use someone else's hardware.

In 18 months I'll either opt to stay with BT or switch to someone else, and by then there will be a wider variety of routers with built in support around.

Thanks though Griff.