BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

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Had infinity installed on the 28th, these have been the normal speeds for most of that time...meant to be ~60Mb/s down :(

Might root out an ethernet cable and see what I get then.
 
ci_newman said:
If you are connecting at 54g, then that's the best you are going to get :) Ethernet all the way! :D
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Hmmm, had one day in the past week where I was getting near 40Mb/s down...would be happy if it was there :D

Think I'll have to invest in some Powerline thingys...now to find some empty plug sockets :o
 
Thorper said:
Hmmm, had one day in the past week where I was getting near 40Mb/s down...would be happy if it was there :D

Think I'll have to invest in some Powerline thingys...now to find some empty plug sockets :o
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Some of the powerline thingys have a passthrough so you can still use the plug :)
 
Just got off the phone with BT...did a speedtest with the guy on the phone before changing the channels and got 44Mb/s (which is double what i've been getting). Go through some other channels and they're all poo, so go back to the original and end the call....do a speed test now and I'm getting under 20 again :o

Why couldn't it be crap when he was on the phone :p
 
Not all N is the same - there's things like the number of antennas and spatial streams that it can support which all have a bearing on the final speeds. The Home Hub isn't great, but there's a lot of awful Wi-Fi adapters out there as well. I've seen Sony laptops that can only run at 65Mbps, and a Lenovo Nettop thing that topped out at 2Mbps, all with Wireless N cards in.
 
The specs for mine say its capable of up to 300mbps, or is that just them saying it could do...but it wont? :o

Think I'll have a look at some powerline adapters this week though, seems like it'll be the better option in the long run.
 
Thorper said:
The specs for mine say its capable of up to 300mbps, or is that just them saying it could do...but it wont? :o

Think I'll have a look at some powerline adapters this week though, seems like it'll be the better option in the long run.
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300mbps N is applicable if you're running on the 5Ghz band. Which generaly you have to get a decent router to get. The homehub certainly won't support it.
It's perfectly possible to get 95% of the performance of Infinity over Wifi, you just have to be prepared to shell out for a better router. Get one that has dual radios, one for 5GHz and one for 2.4Ghz (otherwise your phones/other devices that don't support 5Ghz will drag it back down to 2.4Ghz anyway) and you'll be laughing.
I backup wirelessly over my 5Ghz N Wifi network and get 120 megabits/second up/down without an issue. (although I should mention that is being in the same room as the router I use, obviously it will degrade with distance).

In the end though, if you're not moving around that much, and you have decent power wiring, give the powerline adapters a shot. Or, use the power line adapters to have two APs at opposite ends of the house that both support 5Ghz/2.4Ghz and live in wireless heaven :D
 
does anyone know the commands to show you line stats in putty did try

xdslcmd info --show not working tho this is in putty with modem unlocked

its ok had to use sh first

anyway i can check if the line is on interleaving or fastpath?
 
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lozzd said:
300mbps N is applicable if you're running on the 5Ghz band. Which generaly you have to get a decent router to get. The homehub certainly won't support it.
It's perfectly possible to get 95% of the performance of Infinity over Wifi, you just have to be prepared to shell out for a better router. Get one that has dual radios, one for 5GHz and one for 2.4Ghz (otherwise your phones/other devices that don't support 5Ghz will drag it back down to 2.4Ghz anyway) and you'll be laughing.
I backup wirelessly over my 5Ghz N Wifi network and get 120 megabits/second up/down without an issue. (although I should mention that is being in the same room as the router I use, obviously it will degrade with distance).

In the end though, if you're not moving around that much, and you have decent power wiring, give the powerline adapters a shot. Or, use the power line adapters to have two APs at opposite ends of the house that both support 5Ghz/2.4Ghz and live in wireless heaven :D
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Ah right, thanks for the advice :D

Will have to look more into these powerline adapters, will give me a reason to finally sort out the nest of wires I have round the back of my desk I suppose :p
 
A note to everyone thinking of getting Powerline adaptors.
Powerline adaptors will max out at about 30% of their claimed speed, because they're not duplex and overheads from encryption and error correction.
ie 200mbps adaptors will max out at around 60mbps
 
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