BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

opethdisciple · 28 Apr 2013 at 00:37

Anyone else been expereincing problems with pages not loading first attempt, or taking a while to load?

Im using google DNS, and tried switching to open DNS, but it's hard to verify if that sorts problem or not.

Last time I saw something similar was with BE when they where having routing and peering issues.

Noticed it over the last 2-3 weeks.

ANDARIAL · 28 Apr 2013 at 13:23

Just revisited samknows and it seems my exchange is `under evaluation`for fibre in 2014
Also there is a possibility of a new exchange being built for a new housing development about 2 miles from my house

Re my exchange anyone had an attenuation of 60 and then got fibre?
Any chance I would benefit from them enabling my exchange and being able to get fibre?

KIA · 28 Apr 2013 at 20:26

ANDARIAL said:
Re my exchange anyone had an attenuation of 60 and then got fibre?
Any chance I would benefit from them enabling my exchange and being able to get fibre?

Yes, the street cab should be much closer to your house.

ANDARIAL · 28 Apr 2013 at 21:42

cabinet is about 2 miles away.existing one that is.if they move it for a new type it will be no closer

parityboy · 28 Apr 2013 at 23:39

pgi947 said:
10 days is now over!!

The final result:

Not bad at all

That ping looks a little bit high. I'm on ADSL with 17ms.

moogle · 29 Apr 2013 at 12:04

BT Man is here, (didn't get a contractor, wohooo!)

Gave me some fibre lead to lay myself as I wanted the cable to go under the floors.

All this time I thought BT made a mistake giving FTTH in my area but it seems like it's happening.

pgi947 · 29 Apr 2013 at 13:12

parityboy said:
That ping looks a little bit high. I'm on ADSL with 17ms.

Anything I can do at my end to improve it? It was around 55ms on adsl. Speedtest.net flakes out on me quite often too only showing 30/15 with a 45ms ping.

Orcvader · 29 Apr 2013 at 13:40

opethdisciple said:
Anyone else been expereincing problems with pages not loading first attempt, or taking a while to load?

Im using google DNS, and tried switching to open DNS, but it's hard to verify if that sorts problem or not.

Last time I saw something similar was with BE when they where having routing and peering issues.

Noticed it over the last 2-3 weeks.

I had a slight niggle last night, but it's fine now.

parityboy · 29 Apr 2013 at 16:48

@moogle

You got FTTH? B*****d, lol. What speed/latency are you getting? Is your phone service over fibre too? What's the monthly cost?

@thread

Is the Data Extension Kit strong/robust enough to be used outside, i.e. pinned to an outside wall? My master socket is at the front of the house, and the office is in the middle; I'm thinking of having the modem and the router in there for the sake of convenience.

parityboy · 29 Apr 2013 at 16:57

pgi947 said:
Anything I can do at my end to improve it? It was around 55ms on adsl. Speedtest.net flakes out on me quite often too only showing 30/15 with a 45ms ping.

I'm wondering if it's your router at fault. Are you connected to your router wired or wireless? What router are you using?

moogle · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:09

parityboy said:
@moogle

You got FTTH? B*****d, lol. What speed/latency are you getting? Is your phone service over fibre too? What's the monthly cost?

Getting, yeah

No speedtests yet that was just the external install. 9th of May is when it goes live.

Infinity Option 2 for now for £26/pm, and yeah the phone will be plugged into the modem.

The estimated speeds are 80/20 Mbps (Down/Up)

I didn't choose the higher package as I don't need that much speed yet and I don't think my powerline plugs can handle the speed.

KIA · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:59

Fibre on Demand, early market deployment areas now known

Basingstoke, Blackfriars, Bonvilston, Bristol South, Cardiff, Culverhouse, Edinburgh Waverley, Garston, High Wycombe, Holmer Green, Hook, Keynsham, Manchester Central, Penn (Buckinghamshire), Peterston Super-Ely, Princes Risborough, Redruth, Roath, St Agnes, Turgis Green Chineham, Watford, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Southam, Nottingham Longbox, Geding, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Irlan, Oldham, Saddleworth, Tunbridge Wells, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, Malone (Belfast), Brighton Hove, Brighton Withdeam, Maidenhead, Littlewick Green, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Hillside (Hereford & Worcester), Falmouth, Penryn

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5811-fibre-on-demand-early-market-deployment-areas-now-known.html

Mana · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:38

KIA said:
Fibre on Demand, early market deployment areas now known

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5811-fibre-on-demand-early-market-deployment-areas-now-known.html

damn, my area isn't listed!!! boo

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Apr 2013 at 19:40

erm, omg

We have known the prices of FTTP on Demand for a few weeks now, which is in the order of £700 to £1500 to connect, and the monthly connection is a 330 Mbps that has a minimum price of £38+VAT per month.

pgi947 · 29 Apr 2013 at 20:56

parityboy said:
I'm wondering if it's your router at fault. Are you connected to your router wired or wireless? What router are you using?

using a HH3 directly wired up using the cables provided from the HH3.

I see a few are replacing the HH3 with something else, this worth doing? I remember the first ever home hub being a complete pile of poo.

Edit: 75/17 with 42ms today.

Edit 2: Can I just run an Ethernet cable directly from my PC into the spare port on the openreach modem??

dfarrall · 30 Apr 2013 at 12:32

Have BT blocked TPB trackers too? Cant seem to connect to them, oddly seems to be an issue through VPN as well.

Ironically i'm using it for completely legal download, Mega gives me a checksum error every time i download it and they are the only 2 hosts!

KIA · 30 Apr 2013 at 12:49

TPB closed its tracker in 2009.

dfarrall · 30 Apr 2013 at 13:20

Nevermind UDP tracker support had somehow been disabled..

Mixeh · 1 May 2013 at 14:39

Had mine installed 2 days ago now. FTTP, option 3 - currently 290/9, clearly screwing me out of 11mb upload!

moogle · 1 May 2013 at 15:00

Mixeh said:
Had mine installed 2 days ago now. FTTP, option 3 - currently 290/9, clearly screwing me out of 11mb upload!

Have you got a picture of the modem set-up?

I'm confused as to whether the cable (fibre one) from the outside of the house comes in and directly plugs into the modem or it goes to a master socket phone box, then into the modem.