BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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Da[]San;23754875 said:
Based on that, I can't see your latency droppping much at all. You're on fastpasth, you're based in the northwest so there's going to be a bit of latency to London anyway. That's a good result.
FWIW I get 20ms to the BBC and I'm about 12miles from Telehouse - also with BT Infinity with fastpath on.
Northerners get a better ping than southerners on BT, due to the retarded routing.
Use Google DNS.
^^ I think its a BT "transparent"/caching/packet inspection proxy issue rather than a DNS related issue. Doesn't help a lot of people are routed via sheffield and the smallest of issues can result in bumpy traffic conditions for a large part of the country.
Ever since I upgraded to the "unlimited" option for another 12 months I've just felt like the service has degraded majorly. YouTube in particular seems to take forever to load videos in the evenings and a lot of sites are just timing out or taking forever to load up.
Anyone having a similar experience since upgrading?
Anyone having a similar experience since upgrading?
Finally had an engineer around this morning to install Infinity after the botched "install" last month.
I've gone from this:
to this:
The postcode and phone line checkers both estimated that I'd get around 60Mb down and 20Mb up, so I'm more than happy with my connection
I immediately replaced the Home Hub 3 I was given with my ASUS RT-N16 running Tomato. Seems to handle the connection just fine, though the CPU load jumps to between 2 - 3.00 when Steam or usenet downloads saturate the line. I'd like to give my router a little more breathing room than that so I'm probably going replace it with a N66U later this week. 5GHz wireless would be a bonus as well!
I've gone from this:
to this:
The postcode and phone line checkers both estimated that I'd get around 60Mb down and 20Mb up, so I'm more than happy with my connection
I immediately replaced the Home Hub 3 I was given with my ASUS RT-N16 running Tomato. Seems to handle the connection just fine, though the CPU load jumps to between 2 - 3.00 when Steam or usenet downloads saturate the line. I'd like to give my router a little more breathing room than that so I'm probably going replace it with a N66U later this week. 5GHz wireless would be a bonus as well!
Email [email protected] and ask them what their plans are for your cabinet/area. They should respond to you within 7 days.
EDIT:
I checked your post code here and your exchange is enabled, so now it's a matter of the FTTC cabinets being installed in your locality.
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Nice results, your ping is v.low I've never seen less then 18 on my connection.Finally had an engineer around this morning to install Infinity after the botched "install" last month.
I've gone from this:
to this:
The postcode and phone line checkers both estimated that I'd get around 60Mb down and 20Mb up, so I'm more than happy with my connection
I immediately replaced the Home Hub 3 I was given with my ASUS RT-N16 running Tomato. Seems to handle the connection just fine, though the CPU load jumps to between 2 - 3.00 when Steam or usenet downloads saturate the line. I'd like to give my router a little more breathing room than that so I'm probably going replace it with a N66U later this week. 5GHz wireless would be a bonus as well!
Speed suffering tonight down to 40,000
