BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

JoeBoi said:
Currently on VM am thinking of switching, I'm sick of the constant buffering on Youtube and the lag on games. Whilst playing BF3 today, ended up getting the hump due to the amount of lag and rubberbanding.



I am guessing the lag is due to the high amount of Jitter, not entirely sure whether or not FTTC suffers from the same issues as VM's set up with high utilisation.

Checked the BT wholesale site which estimates I'll receive 23.3mbps down and 5.6 up how accurate are these figures, also anyone else on the Sidcup exchange have any issues with their connection on infinity?
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Ouch, that isn't good, I'd be looking to move providers if I had that. But I'm one of the lucky Virgin customers, "A" line quality 15ms ping and 2ms jitter, and that is over wireless if that makes a difference.
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TheBiznes said:
@ JoeBoi Ouch that looks bad I wouldn't want to play with that also.

Looking at Virgin broadband at the moment a lot suffering utilization problems like you have. BT Infinity may not have the same problems locally as probably less take up subscriber wise and locally capacity at most exchanges. Its internally on the back haul where slow down if any might occur.

Your estimate is lowish perhaps you are a long way from the cabinet.

I am please with what I have got so far from BT. Hate the call centre though.
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I need to locate my local cab, I think I've got a rough idea where to look, I'm not too worried about dropping a few mb I'd rather have a more stable and usable Internet connection for online gaming to be honest.

I take it with my estimated connection being at 23.3 there'd be little point taking out the 76mb service?
 
Anyone got any Pingtests, or thinkbroadband monitoring graphs in the sidcup area?

My local cab is meant to be P15, hope someone can come back with something.
 
Westyfield2 said:
Is anyone here on the new BT products yet? Are they *really* unlimited and unthrottled without traffic management?
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I re-graded to the new "Totally unlimited about 4 weeks ago" (from my June Infinity 2 installation). All tests I run are indicating no throttling or shaping going on.
 
This is mine after a week of fibre install, was quoted 55/20.

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Couple of quick questions ...

The smaller FFTC cabs like the one below, I read somewhere (might have even been here) that these can only house 170 connections. So what happens when its reaches that capacity? Does everyone else in the village just get rejected and says its not available?

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Also, when an exchange is made "live" do all ISPs (BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk) who offer fibre start accepting orders straight away, or do BT start accepting first based on their "partnership" with Openreach etc.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Couple of quick questions ...

Also, when an exchange is made "live" do all ISPs (BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk) who offer fibre start accepting orders straight away, or do BT start accepting first based on their "partnership" with Openreach etc.
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My FTTC went live via Plusnet (owned by BT Group) back in June 2011.

For a few months after installation, BT were still saying FTTC wasn't even planned for my cabinet within the next 6 months.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Couple of quick questions ...

The smaller FFTC cabs like the one below, I read somewhere (might have even been here) that these can only house 170 connections. So what happens when its reaches that capacity? Does everyone else in the village just get rejected and says its not available?

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Also, when an exchange is made "live" do all ISPs (BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk) who offer fibre start accepting orders straight away, or do BT start accepting first based on their "partnership" with Openreach etc.
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BT shouldn't get any priority over any other ISP. Openreach are supposed to be independent. If you chat with the OR engineers they will tell you about installs they do for Talk Talk and other ISP's.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Couple of quick questions ...

The smaller FFTC cabs like the one below, I read somewhere (might have even been here) that these can only house 170 connections. So what happens when its reaches that capacity? Does everyone else in the village just get rejected and says its not available?

Also, when an exchange is made "live" do all ISPs (BT, Sky, Plusnet, TalkTalk) who offer fibre start accepting orders straight away, or do BT start accepting first based on their "partnership" with Openreach etc.
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Sometimes they can add more internal capacity before they have to add another cabinet.

TalkTalk & Sky have to carry out work in the exchange before they can offer FTTC.
 
BT's DNS servers aren't the best but the evening slow loading of web-sites I think is more due to so much traffic being concentrated through Sheffield BT seems to be running some kind of proxy/packet inspection system that sometimes can't cope.
 
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