BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Kanpai · 17 May 2011 at 19:22

It's basically a wireless wizard setup cd for those who don't know how to connect to wireless through windows

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 18 May 2011 at 00:40

Whats the IP address of the homehub 3?

Yerman · 18 May 2011 at 00:58

Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
Whats the IP address of the homehub 3?

http://192.168.1.254/

opethdisciple · 18 May 2011 at 01:04

Locky said:
yep pretty much after 6pm the speed dies off and doesn't really recover until 12.

The whole of the last weekend it was 10mbs or so.

Does every one get this drop?

I wont be happy if my connection drops! Thats not what im paying for!

My infinity is going to be installed tomorrow morning, so I guess il find out.

It better not drop during peak times, otherwise whats the point! Im better of staying with Be there!

SeeKified · 18 May 2011 at 08:29

opethdisciple said:
Does every one get this drop?

I wont be happy if my connection drops! Thats not what im paying for!

My infinity is going to be installed tomorrow morning, so I guess il find out.

It better not drop during peak times, otherwise whats the point! Im better of staying with Be there!

I'm not seeing any drops.

Can't really see more than ~20Mb at the moment as my wireless adapter is an 11g one (will sort that out next week fortunately), but I've had those 20Mb pretty consistently. Last time I checked with cable straight into the router I got 38Mb.

cp88 · 18 May 2011 at 08:38

opethdisciple said:
Does every one get this drop?

I wont be happy if my connection drops! Thats not what im paying for!

My infinity is going to be installed tomorrow morning, so I guess il find out.

It better not drop during peak times, otherwise whats the point! Im better of staying with Be there!

I haven't seen a drop once, I am guessing some exchanges are just packed (My exchange only serves 10k)

Everyone in my area seems to have Sky BB also ^^

Locky · 18 May 2011 at 08:49

No not everyone sees this drop, I think it's just my default gateway that is overloaded.

cp88 · 18 May 2011 at 08:59

Locky said:
No not everyone sees this drop, I think it's just my default gateway that is overloaded.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/EMSWADL

Is this your exchange ? 18k people on there seems like a lot compaired to average.

Alpherah · 18 May 2011 at 09:24

Noticed my speed dropping too now ... initially for 2 months or so i got 38mb/s but now its down to 14mb/s and dropping.
BT say my exchange is full

not happy tbh.

cp88 · 18 May 2011 at 09:26

When you notice a speed drop would be interesting to see if its throttling or lack of bandwidth... someone wanna try through Expat Shield? ^^

Hope my exchange doesn't go like this

Locky · 18 May 2011 at 09:35

cp88 said:
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/EMSWADL

Is this your exchange ? 18k people on there seems like a lot compaired to average.

Yeah that's my exchange, Burton down the road has 30k lines and they can't provide Broadband or phone lines at all now, no capacity at all.

SeeKified · 18 May 2011 at 09:38

Locky said:
Yeah that's my exchange, Burton down the road has 30k lines and they can't provide Broadband or phone lines at all now, no capacity at all.

That's bad. You'd think they'd have taken measures before it got to that.

On a different note, out of curiosity I'd like to know what 11n stuff you guys're using with your Infinity connections. I've got an E3000 which I'm loving, but I'm not sure what to get as far as adapters go. xD

Lustral · 18 May 2011 at 09:54

Anyone know the ip address of accessing the Huawei HG612 modem ?

So far so good on my end , loving the speed and latency isnt that bad at all.

cp88 · 18 May 2011 at 10:12

Lustral said:
Anyone know the ip address of accessing the Huawei HG612 modem ?

If you mean the openreach modem, you cant I've tried a lot of things

Mate of mine just got connected this morning- Winsford exchange:

Lustral · 18 May 2011 at 10:38

cp88 said:
If you mean the openreach modem, you cant I've tried a lot of things

Mate of mine just got connected this morning- Winsford exchange:

Yeah , ah well !

Im sure there is a way , but it seems the modem has a custom BT firmware on it and cant be accessed via ip browser access

SeeKified · 18 May 2011 at 10:46

Lustral said:
Yeah , ah well !

Im sure there is a way , but it seems the modem has a custom BT firmware on it and cant be accessed via ip browser access

Out of curiosity, why'd you want to access the modem config anyway? It pretty much just passes the signal through to whatever LAN-side device it's connected to, so configuration should be done on that device instead.

When I got my connection installed, I left a note for the OpenReach guy as I wasn't home at the time, asking him to leave details of the access details to the modem and any PPPoE details it might use for itself. His answer was that there wasn't any.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 18 May 2011 at 11:11

My exchange serves 12,400 residential and 800 non residential

cp88 · 18 May 2011 at 11:19

SeeKified said:
Out of curiosity, why'd you want to access the modem config anyway? It pretty much just passes the signal through to whatever LAN-side device it's connected to, so configuration should be done on that device instead.

Want to view the line stats! : (

SeeKified · 18 May 2011 at 11:25

cp88 said:
Want to view the line stats! : (

Fair point.

If you mean like uptime, total packages sent/received and such, a decent router (can't speak for the homehub, never used mine

) should be able to capture that.

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 18 May 2011 at 12:31

If you are downloading at your maxed out speed how much gig could you download in an hour?
I have roughly 14 gig in my head but Im not sure?