BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Psymonkee · 14 Mar 2013 at 22:22

I got a reply from them too stating that my local exchange didn't meet the (unknown) requirements to be included in the rollout

Kinda sucks

Rambo89 · 15 Mar 2013 at 01:05

My infinity will be getting installed between 8am and 1pm today, is it worthwhile unlocking the modem or is that just if you want to get stats etc?

Montegue · 15 Mar 2013 at 06:47

Terrier_Jimlad said:
NGA Enquiries just replied with:
Cabinet got installed 2 weeks ago. The predicted speeds seem pretty poor, was hoping it was going to be a bit higher

I was quoted/predicted 55/20 & I'm now on 77/20, so depending on line quality you should expect at the minimum an extra 20 at least after line settles.

~Mike~ · 15 Mar 2013 at 07:07

Terrier_Jimlad said:
NGA Enquiries just replied with:

Cabinet got installed 2 weeks ago. The predicted speeds seem pretty poor, was hoping it was going to be a bit higher

NGA enquiries said May for my cabinet also, the cabinet was put in at the end of Jan.

SuperOwl86 · 15 Mar 2013 at 08:29

Can I ask how you guys are setting out your emails to NGA? I have sent two of in past couple of months and both have been deleted without even been read.

Rambo89 · 15 Mar 2013 at 08:34

Montegue said:
I was quoted/predicted 55/20 & I'm now on 77/20, so depending on line quality you should expect at the minimum an extra 20 at least after line settles.

Hoping i get the same then! I've been quoted 59/20 so here's hoping i end up settling at close to 80/20.

EDIT :

BT have just came and installed my infinity, engineer was nice enough and was in and out in 10 mins, nice to have a good speed now, before and after below:

Da[]San · 15 Mar 2013 at 13:32

Looks like you have an issue with your upload. There is a faulty batch of HH3 which is limiting the upload to 10mbit. Run the BT wholesale speedtest then click on additional tests that should give you your actual BT line profile.

Rambo89 · 15 Mar 2013 at 13:52

Using a ASUS RT-N66U, speedtest.net just having issues, below is results from BT speed test :

Download: 74.94Mbps
Upload: 13.31Mbps

EDIT :

Resolved my Steam issues, reverted back to Stock asus firmware, steam downloading at 8.6MB/sec, happy with that compared to the 300kbps i used to get!

Montegue · 16 Mar 2013 at 09:28

Rambo89 said:
Using a ASUS RT-N66U, speedtest.net just having issues, below is results from BT speed test :

Download: 74.94Mbps
Upload: 13.31Mbps

EDIT :

Resolved my Steam issues, reverted back to Stock asus firmware, steam downloading at 8.6MB/sec, happy with that compared to the 300kbps i used to get!

Feels good not to wait & wait for downloads to finish eh..

TheBiznes · 16 Mar 2013 at 10:49

Rambo89 said:
Using a ASUS RT-N66U, speedtest.net just having issues, below is results from BT speed test :

Download: 74.94Mbps
Upload: 13.31Mbps

EDIT :

Resolved my Steam issues, reverted back to Stock asus firmware, steam downloading at 8.6MB/sec, happy with that compared to the 300kbps i used to get!

Still might be worth looking at upload a little. Although this may or may not do anything for you.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18495194

The Chemist · 17 Mar 2013 at 20:40

Been living under a rock recently, so the news that BT have removed traffic shaping is news to me!

Results for your host (host86-130-217-167.range86-130.btcentralplus.com - 86.130.217.167):
Is your upload traffic rate limited?

Your ISP appears to rate limit your uploads.

Details:
Your ISP appears to rate limit your BitTorrent uploads. In our tests, uploads using control flows achieved up to 17760 Kbps while uploads using BitTorrent achieved up to 990 Kbps.

Your ISP appears to rate limit uploads on port 6881. In our tests, uploads on port 6881 achieved up to 17760 Kbps while uploads on port 34154 achieved up to 992 Kbps.

Is your download traffic rate limited?

Your ISP appears to rate limit your downloads.

Details:
Your ISP appears to rate limit your BitTorrent downloads. In our tests, downloads using control flows achieved up to 42016 Kbps while downloads using BitTorrent achieved up to 9 Kbps.

Your ISP appears to rate limit downloads on port 6881. In our tests, downloads on port 6881 achieved up to 42016 Kbps while downloads on port 34154 achieved up to 10 Kbps.

You can view the detailed measurement results of the test here.
For more details on how Glasnost tests work, please read our NSDI 2010 paper.

Think I need to recontract my Infinity 2 package (started in December) then

Just a simple call I guess?

KIA · 17 Mar 2013 at 21:03

The Chemist said:
Been living under a rock recently, so the news that BT have removed traffic shaping is news to me!

Think I need to recontract my Infinity 2 package (started in December) then Just a simple call I guess?

You can do it online. http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=29280

FiCtioN75 · 17 Mar 2013 at 21:50

Ive just had BT infinity installed and all seems rosey. However my download speeds are like 1.8kB/s, yet when I do a speed test im getting like 40mB/s. Anyone have any ideas?

Rambo89 · 17 Mar 2013 at 23:29

Montegue said:
Feels good not to wait & wait for downloads to finish eh..

Yup, best thing ever! downloaded so much since friday!

Also i get the full upload speed, have tested by uploading somefiles and goes at 17Mb.

KIA · 18 Mar 2013 at 09:31

FiCtioN75 said:
Ive just had BT infinity installed and all seems rosey. However my download speeds are like 1.8kB/s, yet when I do a speed test im getting like 40mB/s. Anyone have any ideas?

What are you downloading and from where when you get 1.8KB/s throughput?

ubersonic · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:42

I am currently on ADSL2+ at 20-22Mbit with super low ping, will I actually notice a difference with FTTC apart from massive downloads being done slightly faster? I doubt instant web pages and buffer-less 1080p videos are gonna get any better /shrug

NeoReloaded · 18 Mar 2013 at 11:09

Finally... got Infinity installed this morning so gone from a 3.9mb connection to 75mb

Only thing I've noticed as that it keeps going from 65mb-80mb, constantly changing so is that normal?

Seems to have settled a bit;

Tudders · 18 Mar 2013 at 20:00

We went live a couple of weeks ago with infinity 2 and initially we were getting 69mb down and 19mb up, now 2 weeks later we're getting 55mb down and 15mb up. Does that seem right to you good people? Its in line with what was predicted by BT just thought it strange that our first week of it was so fast.

liamcrane · 18 Mar 2013 at 20:18

How much do you guys pay for infinity 2? Currently with sky and not sure weather to perhaps change to BT now i believe they have stopped there traffic shaping

The Chemist · 18 Mar 2013 at 23:37

KIA said:
You can do it online. http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=29280

Thanks pal, I tried to do it online but it seems the checkout system want to charge me £6.95 for the homehub 3 delivery (that I already have)?