BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

This is my ping monitor, it gets used a bit as you can see :)

ignore the red, where the bloody kids turned my router off.

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Locky said:
This is my ping monitor, it gets used a bit as you can see :)

ignore the red, where the bloody kids turned my router off.

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Locky,

How did you get the BQM to work?

I've enabled Respond to Ping Requests from WAN in my router (ASUS RT-N56U) but no such luck. Anything else obvious to check?
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nichorob said:
Wrong, been proved countless times on other forums. Ill see if I can dig out the links.
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No he's right. From the 1st of this month BT has removed all throttling for customers who have re-contracted or signed up after this date. I ran the glasnost test in peaktime yesterday and it reported back that there was no throttling at all on the upload or download.
 
im confused as ive signed up before the 1st feb and when i got to my account it says this when i try and upgrade.

Unlimited BT Infinity 2 + Calls
Your contract started on 10/01/2013
Your contract finishes on 09/07/2014

does that mean im on the new package?
 
Im a business user on infinity does any of this make a difference to me? and i dont really under stand those google drive pictures ? what do they mean to a normal person:)?
 
joelk2 said:
brill.

i dont get what additional benefits i will gain though. is it merely p2p being full speed now?
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You also get 50gb Cloud Storage I think.

Gavin said:
Im a business user on infinity does any of this make a difference to me? and i dont really under stand those google drive pictures ? what do they mean to a normal person:)?
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As a business user I shouldn't think it will affect you at all unless you use any p2p software.
 
Then you may have to phone BT and ask if you need to recontract to gain the totally unlimited package. I'm not sure if they throttle p2p on the business packages to start with.
 
Finally found my cab today, traipsed around in the sleet for a good hour or so looking at every green box that remotely looked like it could be on google maps. Needless to say it was the last box i looked at (shoulda looked at the main road ones first), good news is it has a shiny new box beside it and i'd say it's a touch under 200m away from my house so hopefully the 58/20 estimate the checker gives is conservative. I notice it only gives 73mb estimate for houses right beside it.

Just need them to hurry up and enable the cab now :)
 
the estimate is usually pretty pessimistic anyway, if all is well, you should get faster speeds. My cabinet is about 200m away from my house too, and I was quoted 67/20
 
Well I still can't get mine any higher down to 50mb was 71mb when I got it installed, may give BT a ring tomorrow see what is going on
 
Da[]San;23693195 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm curious as to what effect throttling may have on p2p usage?
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It will reduce the download speed of P2P traffic dependant on 'network load'. Sometimes to a grinding halt.
 
Can't wait!!...

Sometime between 1pm and 6pm today a nice Openreach Engineer will come and whisk me away from the drudgery of Sub 2meg Broadband and take me to the fuzzy heights of an estimated 64meg download speed!!

:D
 
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