BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

My exchange is round the corner bts connection speed is never solid in terms of speed i get 79mbs and 18mb upload in off peak times the minute it hits peak times it will drob to about to 40 to 60 and 14mb upload i dont know if anyone else gets this
 
Montegue said:
Works fine here.
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Had started working about 2-3 hours after I posted when I checked again.

adzi*adam said:
My exchange is round the corner bts connection speed is never solid in terms of speed i get 79mbs and 18mb upload in off peak times the minute it hits peak times it will drob to about to 40 to 60 and 14mb upload i dont know if anyone else gets this
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I have an odd experience with this - outside of peak tiem speedtest.net etc. results are full speeds, as soon as peaktime hits they are 40-67mbit down 13-15mbit up yet I can still download from say steam at a pretty much constant 9.25MByte/s (74Mbit/s) and uploading to youtube is a constant 2.25Mbyte/s (~18Mbit).

EDIT: i.e. this is my speedtest.net result right now:



I can use any server or a completely different speedtest site even the BT one and it won't be over 60/15 (actually 15.8 in that test but usually won't go anything over 15) yet I can start a download going and it will hit 74-76mbit constant. Outside of peaktime it will hit 70+ down and 17+ up fine on speedtests but actual traffic speeds are unchanged.
 
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If you are heavy gamer beware going Infinity route thinking it should all be sweet. Speed is not everything as being on Sky ADSL package for last 6 years without issue proves even though 2mb download.

This is my monitor on BT Infinity. Pretty much unusable peak times 20:00 - 23:00



I am on FTTP as well the problem is in the core of BT network.

Every night the same window is affected. Ealing though is the better route for me.

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.0.0.1
2 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
3 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 217.32.141.7
4 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 217.32.140.222
5 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 217.41.216.130
6 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 31.55.164.179
7 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms 31.55.164.107
8 129 ms 131 ms 130 ms acc1-10GigE-0-1-0-6.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.94]
9 141 ms 144 ms 144 ms core2-te0-15-0-15.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.36]
10 153 ms 151 ms 155 ms peer2-xe2-1-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.142]
11 18 ms 16 ms 17 ms 194.74.65.42
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 17 ms 18 ms 53 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
14 157 ms 155 ms 157 ms 132.185.255.165
15 142 ms 143 ms 145 ms bbc-vip012.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.91]

Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.251.195] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=158ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=150ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=171ms TTL=113
Reply from 212.58.251.195: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=113
Ping statistics for 212.58.251.195:
Packets: Sent = 9, Received = 9, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 150ms, Maximum = 171ms, Average = 160ms

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
2 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 217.32.141.7
3 6 ms 6 ms 5 ms 217.32.140.222
4 132 ms 135 ms 141 ms 217.41.216.154
5 144 ms 142 ms 141 ms 31.55.164.39
6 122 ms 120 ms 124 ms 31.55.164.107
7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms acc1-10GigE-0-2-0-4.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.104]
8 18 ms 23 ms 23 ms core1-te0-3-0-15.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.28]
9 175 ms 148 ms 171 ms peer2-xe3-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.223]
10 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 194.74.65.42
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
13 17 ms 19 ms 17 ms 132.185.255.165
14 168 ms 167 ms 144 ms bbc-vip012.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.91]
 
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That looks pretty poor. Mine's been rock solid in the 10 months or so I've had it. Soon moving to Gloucester though, unsure what it's like there.
 
TheBiznes said:
If you are heavy gamer beware going Infinity route thinking it should all be sweet. Speed is not everything as being on Sky ADSL package for last 6 years without issue proves even though 2mb download.
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Ouch. Have you reported it to someone? Do you have a thread on the BT forum?
 
newbiejim said:
My exchange (Cumnock, WSCMN)is on the 'Future Exchanges' list with a provisional timescale of 2013, I noticed what I think was FTTC cabinet upgrades happening in the pic below about two weeks ago. I`m hugely concerned tho that my particular cabinet is omitted (nightmare) and have mailed the openreach address for info tho nothing received as yet. As I understand it the exchange upgrade is funded either wholly or partly by government initiative, would it be reasonable the to infer that cabinet upgrades may not be driven solely by financial factors?, and that my street in small village may well be upgraded?
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Financial factors definitely come in to it. BT aren't upgrading my cabinet as it isn't "commercially viable" for example, despite the exchange being FTTC enabled. Kind of annoying as BT Infinity is priced far less than I'd be willing to pay (say £100/month or £1000 up front) but I guess there won't be enough like-minded individuals - getting internet for peanuts seems to be all the rage these days.
 
It seems to be a problem with the Birmingham metro - seen a few reports of it over the last week or so from people who are routed via 109.159.248.x typical with BT you will have to escalate it to executive level for anything to be done about it.

They basically got dicked on the 21CN infrastructure and won't admit it hence why a large majority of users are routed via sheffield even when they live the complete opposite end of the country - quite ridiculous that people living in South London are routed there and then back to Ilford again to get out onto the public internet.
 
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Yes I am on the 21CN network as my tracert goes through either Ilford or Ealing, but thing is will they or can they easily resolve it before taking on a lot more customers, and the situation becoming worse?
 
My speedtest right now - can run a few other sites with same results



Meanwhile can download on steam at a sustained 8.3MByte/s (about 66Mbit/s) but I've noticed 1-2 other sites that normally give good speeds are struggling to get about 20Mbit/s.
 
Seem to be hitting a wall at 2.1MByte/s downloading either thinkbroadband's big download test file or pulling a file from my dedicated server - my dedi can easily hit 80-90MBit/s uploading/downloading to another host when I tried from it.
 
HangTime said:
Financial factors definitely come in to it. BT aren't upgrading my cabinet as it isn't "commercially viable" for example, despite the exchange being FTTC enabled. Kind of annoying as BT Infinity is priced far less than I'd be willing to pay (say £100/month or £1000 up front) but I guess there won't be enough like-minded individuals - getting internet for peanuts seems to be all the rage these days.
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That's the concern, there must be lots of people left out if financial criteria is the only driver.
 
ShortWarning said:
I have noticed this as well. I have a horrible feeling they have started throttling. :(
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As above its not throttling, if anything its the fact they've pulled off the traffic management means they are struggling with capacity - its a bad move IMO as way too many people just leave torrents, etc. running 24x7.
 
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