BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

parityboy said:
@Bry

If that's March 31st 2013, it's just an end-of-quarter holding date. Mine has just moved there after being projected for 31st December 2012. If you want a more solid date, try emailing nga.enquiries <at> openreach.co.uk. If you can supply them with your exchange and cabinet number, they'll give you a more realistic date. :)
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Thanks mate, its more that previously all the checkers beforehand said nope your not getting it.
Now all of a sudden it does :) Not too fussed about the date, more of the fact that I can now get it :)
 
parityboy said:
What's the price difference between Option 2 and Option 3? Also, when you downgraded, did they replace the fibre line to your house with a copper line for VDSL2? Or did they simply keep the fibre line and downgrade your bandwidth?
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It's all over fibre. You can see the packages at http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/infinity

Normal price is £9 more per month.

Simian said:
Anyone recomend (from the OcUK Routers Section http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=46&catid=1596) a decent replacement Router to use on BT Infinity Option 2 once I get connected???
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-028-AS&groupid=46&catid=1596&subcat=
 
@KIA, @dovey

So would it be fair to say that in an FTTP-enabled area, OpenReach don't bother with FTTC? If so, does that mean that the likes of PlusNet and ADSL24 will provide you with Internet service over FTTP? Or does FTTP-only (currently) mean BT Retail and no one else?
 
I live right in the heart of a city everyone around me has fibre my cabinet is there waiting to be enabled has been for about 8 months.

I wouldnt mind if the service they GAVE me was actually decent but nope the entire line is laggy ping spikes all the time and its 2 meg when we pay for a faster service obviously they dont specificly have 2 meg.

Bt have always been the worst company ive ever experienced, customer service who dont know what they were talking about etc.

I cant even move to anyone else on this line as they will all be the same running on the same cabs.

Ive had this ****** connection for years no matter what i do its been like this and what annoys me the most is theres many people out there like me we should be getting a good service we live in the right places its just we get forgotten about.

Its not like i live in a bloody village i absoloutely despise bt at the moment wish they would pull there god damn finger out there ass.
 
parityboy said:
@KIA, @dovey

So would it be fair to say that in an FTTP-enabled area, OpenReach don't bother with FTTC? If so, does that mean that the likes of PlusNet and ADSL24 will provide you with Internet service over FTTP? Or does FTTP-only (currently) mean BT Retail and no one else?
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It's one or the other. FTTPoD will be available to people in FTTC areas next year.

FTTP is available as 40/10 & 80/20 but I'm not sure how these are presented to the customer if a provider only advertises FTTC. It probably varies from provider to provider.

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/hom...6rNZujnCs99NbIKJZPD9hXYmiijxH6wr CQm97GZMyQ==
 
parityboy said:
@KIA, @dovey

So would it be fair to say that in an FTTP-enabled area, OpenReach don't bother with FTTC? If so, does that mean that the likes of PlusNet and ADSL24 will provide you with Internet service over FTTP? Or does FTTP-only (currently) mean BT Retail and no one else?
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I have just had BT FTTP installed (300 Mbps baby!) and while I researched which ISP to go for, I contacted pretty much all of them, and none of them could sign me up, except for BT. So even though I loathe BT, I had no choice but to go with them (or stay on 3 Mbps ADSL). In my case (and I'm guessing probably the case for most/all people in FTTP areas), the checker always came back with either ADSL or FTTP, no FTTC. Some of the ISPs are supposedly running "FTTP trials", but none of them ever got back to me about getting on the trial, so it seems nobody is currently interested, or there is very little demand and I am just one of the lucky few to get FTTP. Personally I can't see why the ISPs should care, it's just a pipe to their network.
 
@KIA

FTTP is available as 40/10 & 80/20 but I'm not sure how these are presented to the customer if a provider only advertises FTTC. It probably varies from provider to provider.
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Cheers for that. :) Is this the same 40/10 and 80/20 product that goes 160Mb/s and faster? :p

@rotor

I suspect that a) FTTP is in very few areas at the moment compared to FTTC (no surprise, really) so demand will be low anyway, and b) if another ISP wants to provide over FTTP they're gonan wait for all of the bugs to be ironed out before they jump on board. Another possiblity is c) BT Wholesale aren't actually offering it to anyone apart from BT Retail - perhaps they have no obligation to do so while it's still on "trial".
 
Personal best speed at downloading torrents :p Stupid BT throttling p2p connections
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So my Open Reach modem has just died. No power, tried a differed power supply but that didn't work. Ive called BT but they want to call me back to arrange a replacement. Does this sound right? No call back yet and I called them two hours ago
 
Awahwah said:
So my Open Reach modem has just died. No power, tried a differed power supply but that didn't work. Ive called BT but they want to call me back to arrange a replacement. Does this sound right? No call back yet and I called them two hours ago
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Call them again if they haven't got back to you by mid-day tomorrow.
 
howdy,

hopefully someone can help.

i bought a new build property almost 4 years ago now.

Thrusday im having my Fibre broadband installed, im assuming they will want to change the master socket to the fibre jobby. i dont actually have your typical master socket (every socket in my house is just a normal one as per picture)

will it cause any probs

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will that matter. can i specify which one to change. (ie. its a 3 storey house with front room on 2nd floor so i want that one changed, my current router is plugged into this)
 
If you've got the external NTE (like I have) they crimp round it and use the internal wiring. I wanted the broadband in my office rather than changing the faceplate in the hall and running an extension kit. So the openreach engineer used spare pairs on the internal wiring to send it upstairs first, then put the new faceplate in place of the flush internal one (all internal ones are similar to the one pictured above), then crimped everything back so the rest of the sockets are filtered and I have the socket where I wanted with no extension kits.
 
Chief Wiggum said:
If you've got the external NTE (like I have) they crimp round it and use the internal wiring. I wanted the broadband in my office rather than changing the faceplate in the hall and running an extension kit. So the openreach engineer used spare pairs on the internal wiring to send it upstairs first, then put the new faceplate in place of the flush internal one (all internal ones are similar to the one pictured above), then crimped everything back so the rest of the sockets are filtered and I have the socket where I wanted with no extension kits.
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ok, hopefully we get a nice engineer. im not going to be in when he arrives but my wife will be who isnt switched on when it comes to computers.

ill get her to tell the guy to make sure our front room socket is the one we want as the main one.

im pretty sure i do have the grey panel though.
 
after looking last night i do have an external openreach NTE.

all my current internal sockets are flush mounted (well really thin)

im guessing the engineer will just need to fit a bigger box into the front room and jobs a good un.

they dont need to be cutting holes in my walls or anything to route cable do they?
 
The internal faceplates will likely just be mounted onto a standard dry lining box. I imagine they can just remove one of the faceplates and put a different one onto the same box.
 
Yup, they'll just change one of the faceplates for a new one that sticks out a bit more. Assuming your builders have used multi-core cable and not been tight, then openreach will be able to use spare pairs to send it where you want.
The openreach lass who did my install was really helpful as my 'first' socket is in the hall which also has an alarm connected to it. She asked where I wanted the mode to go and said ok you don't want an extension kit running through your hall. So used the spare pairs and that also resulted in the alarm being filtered then (something the alarm co wanted £70 for!)
 
Chief Wiggum said:
Yup, they'll just change one of the faceplates for a new one that sticks out a bit more. Assuming your builders have used multi-core cable and not been tight, then openreach will be able to use spare pairs to send it where you want.
The openreach lass who did my install was really helpful as my 'first' socket is in the hall which also has an alarm connected to it. She asked where I wanted the mode to go and said ok you don't want an extension kit running through your hall. So used the spare pairs and that also resulted in the alarm being filtered then (something the alarm co wanted £70 for!)
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is there anyway to check this prior to them coming?

or is there anyway of checking if my front room socket is infact already configured as the master?
 
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