BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Yeah, they need to connect the HH to test the connection. I swapped mine out for an Apple Time Capsule as soon as the engineer left. :)
 
Anyone had any joy lobbying local government to get cabs upgraded?

My exchange was upgraded a few months ago so I contacted BTO to find out about my cab, and they said it wasn't economically viable to update it. Pretty frustrating as I'm stuck on 4mbit (the exchange doesn't have 21CN/ADSL2+ or LLU, and Virgin isn't available either). I guess they must have done their research but it seems weird to me, the local demographic is tightly packed housing estates of affluent professionals with families who would lap up a fast internet service. It makes me wonder just what areas are deemed financially viable, massive tower blocks of flats? Don't really understand why they bothered updating the exchange at all since where I live is typical of the whole town.
 
Have you got any companies connected to your cabinet? Perhaps BT didn't update it so they could sell expensive leased lines to them?

What is the BDUK situation near you? I suspect that money will be used to infill marginal cabinets on enabled exchanges as well as taking fiber to new areas
 
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Where does it state that? You've clearly misread something somewhere.

Your IP Profile dictates your throughput speed which in your case is 69Mbps. The green bars indicate the speeds achieved in the test which seem perfectly normal.
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Hovering the mouse over one of the 'i' gave me that information.
 
Spudgun said:
Have you got any companies connected to your cabinet? Perhaps BT didn't update it so they could sell expensive leased lines to them?
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Unlikely as most of the companies are located about 1-2 miles away. It is pretty much exclusively residential in my vicinity (new build estates, so there aren't even schools, pubs, corner shops or anything).

What is the BDUK situation near you? I suspect that money will be used to infill marginal cabinets on enabled exchanges as well as taking fiber to new areas
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BTO suggested that I contact the county council who would in theory be working with BDUK. I will be doing so but just wondered if anyone had had success going down this route. I'm not aware of any BDUK enterprises round here.

I think in general I am just finding it difficult to come to terms with the fact that many areas that already have much faster connections are getting yet further funding to rollout 'superfast' services, further widening the gap between the bandwidth-rich and bandwidth-poor. Historically I'm used to being an early adopter of fast services - ISDN in the 90s, engineered installed ADSL in the early 00s (£45/month), rebadged office 2mbit service in 2003 (£58/month), 8mbit in 2005 etc. Money isn't an issue within reason, I'd pay £100/month for FTTC if they'd let me.

edit: to be fair to the government/regulatory bodies, I actually think their much-criticised minimum target of 2mbit is reasonable, as anyone stuck below 2mbit will benefit far more from an upgrade than someone like me on 4mbit. With 4mbit, you can still do (single, non-hd) online streaming for example. I just don't necessarily agree with the rush to get 100mbit, 300mbit or whatever out to people who are already packing 20, 30, 40mbit lines - sort us plebs out first!
 
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Spudgun said:
Have you got any companies connected to your cabinet? Perhaps BT didn't update it so they could sell expensive leased lines to them?

What is the BDUK situation near you? I suspect that money will be used to infill marginal cabinets on enabled exchanges as well as taking fiber to new areas
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Not really sure that would make that much of a difference. We have a leased line at work. Even if we suddenly got Infinity, no way we'd move from something where we get all of then bandwidth to ourselves to a shared and contended service.
Either a company can justify a leased line or not.

Not saying that definitely won't make any differences, but not a major one.
 
HangTime said:
Anyone had any joy lobbying local government to get cabs upgraded?

My exchange was upgraded a few months ago so I contacted BTO to find out about my cab, and they said it wasn't economically viable to update it. Pretty frustrating as I'm stuck on 4mbit (the exchange doesn't have 21CN/ADSL2+ or LLU, and Virgin isn't available either). I guess they must have done their research but it seems weird to me, the local demographic is tightly packed housing estates of affluent professionals with families who would lap up a fast internet service. It makes me wonder just what areas are deemed financially viable, massive tower blocks of flats? Don't really understand why they bothered updating the exchange at all since where I live is typical of the whole town.
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I had some joy and they changed their mind on my cabinet from it being not economically viable to being activated next month.

It's not just expected uptake which factors into a cabinet being economically viable. The cost of powering the cabinet comes into play as well. I believe from my conversations they budget for £1-2k per cabinet for this (may be wrong on figure exactly) but the cost quoted to connect the power to my cabinet was well above £10k. In this scenario they decide to defer your cabinet and see what's left at the end of the rollout etc.

My cabinet had to have a whole cul-de-sac nearby ripped up (the road) and re-laid. It's slabbed as well so this wouldn't have been cheap.

I got them to change their mind by just going on and on to them (coherently arguing of course) and eventually after a meeting with their finance department they "decided to commission the cabinet despite the very high cost to power" it. I did involve my MP right at the end but to be fair I'm not sure how much effect this had as I had been discussing with BTO for a few weeks before hand anyway.

It might help to mention that you reside in an affluent area (I did the same).

Good luck!
 
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Anyone else finding BF3 laggy after this BT problem im still getting it its almost like microstutter.
Thanks
 
BT engineer just left. - Took him 10 minutes in total to replace the master socket's faceplate, and connect up the new modem - lol!

First speedtest gave me 76MB down / 16MB up - ping of 15ms. :)
Waiting for it to settle - i'm only about 50 metres away from the fibre box, and the fibre box is about another 50 metres away from the exchange so should be able to max it out tbh.

Had to use PPoE setting and the username [email protected] username and a password of anything to get it working with 'The Dark Knight' :)

Well happy - the response times from websites is immediately noteable - time to blast some newsgroups and see what I can get from me lowly 1.2Ghz NAS :)
 
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just remember to use them settings PPoE, username and a password and the Dark Knight will be ready to rock ;)

Darn NAS can only managed upto 24MB but heyho - As I have TV via internet, two laptops and a couple of phones on the go - I'm happy with 75MB+ for now ;)
 
HangTime said:
Anyone had any joy lobbying local government to get cabs upgraded?

My exchange was upgraded a few months ago so I contacted BTO to find out about my cab, and they said it wasn't economically viable to update it.
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Who exactly is BTO as I need to find out about our CAB?
 
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