BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

[TW]Fox · 27 Mar 2013 at 08:20

The BT checker estimates a line speed of 22mbps. For about the first 10 months of having BT Infinity, it was circa 25ish.

All I've done so far is reboot the router and the modem. Not sure what else to try?

Cosimo · 27 Mar 2013 at 11:41

Yesterday our speed went up to 7143 kbps/1036 kbps, the highest it's ever been. Today I popped out to post some letters and there is a nice new FTTC cabinet with an engineer working at it. He was just finishing with the power supply and said it would be operational shortly. The long wait is almost finally over!

mikejs21 · 27 Mar 2013 at 14:12

Just had infinity installed. Engineer told me my cab is a mile away and not close one, he agreed it was strange. Quoted 22mb, getting 17/18mb at best. Up speed is good though, around the 8mb mark. Still a decent upgrade from 2.5mb down and 0.5mb up.

Having a few issues with connecting wireless devices to the hub though, seems to only allow 1 at the minute.

Could anyone point me in the direction of good dlan plugs to use, think my current ones aren't good enough.

Cheers, all.

Da[]San · 27 Mar 2013 at 15:03

[TW]Fox;24013350 said:
The BT checker estimates a line speed of 22mbps. For about the first 10 months of having BT Infinity, it was circa 25ish.

All I've done so far is reboot the router and the modem. Not sure what else to try?

Have you called support, you might as well log it and see if its a fault.

Locky · 27 Mar 2013 at 15:08

[TW]Fox;24013350 said:
The BT checker estimates a line speed of 22mbps. For about the first 10 months of having BT Infinity, it was circa 25ish.

All I've done so far is reboot the router and the modem. Not sure what else to try?

Pretty much half of your estimate, go on the BT infinity forums and speak to one of the mods on there, they will assist you in a much much better way than the Indians on the other end of the phone.

Brummies · 27 Mar 2013 at 15:23

Locky said:
Pretty much half of your estimate, go on the BT infinity forums and speak to one of the mods on there, they will assist you in a much much better way than the Indians on the other end of the phone.

This.

Or if you have twitter contact them via that and they'll get back to you.

Don't bother calling them up.

Cosimo · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:32

In my search for more information about what is inside an FTTC Cabinet I came across this which quite interesting:

andi · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:35

Cabinets are in, engineers wiring up for the last week or so. Availability still says..

WBC FTTC Up to 77.1 Up to 20 -- 31-Dec-13

What's taking so long damnit!

Cosimo · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:43

andi said:
Cabinets are in, engineers wiring up for the last week or so. Availability still says..

What's taking so long damnit!

Where are you getting that info from as work on our cabinet is being finished?

XeNoN89 · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:45

My infinity was supposed to be installed yesterday. Waited around all day and nobody showed up. After a long call to India they said the engineer had a crash...nice of them to tell us in advance instead of letting us sit around wasting a day.

Now they said they will contact us on Friday to rearrange a date.

Not good first impressions from BT...

andi · 27 Mar 2013 at 17:03

Cosimo said:
Where are you getting that info from as work on our cabinet is being finished?

https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/s...unity/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

[TW]Fox · 27 Mar 2013 at 17:07

Cosimo said:
In my search for more information about what is inside an FTTC Cabinet I came across this

You came across a Youtube Video?! Does that happen for you often?

Joking aside, interesting video all the same.

Cosimo · 27 Mar 2013 at 17:21

andi said:
https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/s...unity/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

Cheers

I get:

WBC FTTC Up to 61.3 Up to 20 -- 31-Mar-14

I'm find that confusing as the engineer working on the cabinet said that it would be working shortly and I can't believe that we will have to wait another year for service availability. Anyway an email has gone out to '[email protected]' asking for more info.

~Mike~ · 27 Mar 2013 at 19:06

Work on my cabinet has ground to a halt.

borich_planner · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:41

my cabinet was installed in 2011 and the date kept getting pushed back.. now its 31 March 2014...

KIA · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:26

Fibre on Demand - Openreach confirm 29th April for roll-out

The trials of Fibre on Demand are almost over, we now have a confirmed date of 29th April 2013 for when the service will become available under Early Market Deployment terms and conditions. For those businesses and Internet geeks who have been adding up the pennies from their change jars it is not the time to smash them just yet, this is just the product launching to the wholesale market, so it will take time for the retail providers to consider what they are doing.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/

oldbag · 28 Mar 2013 at 21:06

Interesting, my max achievable speed has gone up a bit after the first week of having infinity.

Locky · 29 Mar 2013 at 12:45

Don't think I will bother with FOD, I'm moving house next month, but it's on the same cab just 10 meters away from it (bigger house) estimate is 80/20

oldbag · 29 Mar 2013 at 13:40

Do you think that the type of equipment used, e.g, the bt modem would affect speed?

KIA · 29 Mar 2013 at 13:43

Locky said:
Don't think I will bother with FOD, I'm moving house next month, but it's on the same cab just 10 meters away from it (bigger house) estimate is 80/20

Only £840 for you. I'm looking at 2.3k minimum.