BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

When I say my line has dropped, it only drops (once but every time, which leads me to conclude its not instability but something else) after I restart the equipment.

Its as if the equipment needs to restart twice before its stable.

When its up its up and stable.

But over night (twice now in 1 week) the speeds drops from 4.4MB/s down to 500KB/s...

Only a restart of the equipoemt twice got my speeds back.

I dont understand it.
 
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opethdisciple said:
When I say my line has dropped, it only drops (once but every time, which leads me to conclude its not instability but something else) after I restart the equipment.

Its as if the equipment needs to restart twice before its stable.

When its up its up and stable.

But over night (twice now in 1 week) the speeds drops from 4.4MB/s down to 500KB/s...

Only a restart of the equipment twice got my speeds back.

I don't understand it.
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Post the BT speedtester results (specifically the IP profile) when it's running slow.
 
Waiting for FTTC

Hi Guys and Gals,
First post on OCUK forum. Have been looking with great interest in the FTTC quotes on here and looks like I should be able to get some good results when we go live in Sept or Oct of this year. AND my check on BT Wholesale says I can get an estimated speed of 29.9mb Down Load and 7mb Up load. So I CAN'T WAIT LOL:D:D
 
Apart from downloading big files I'm don't see an awful lot of difference with a very good connection. My pings are now excellent but I don't play games online. When browsing sometimes it is hard to tell the difference from my 1gig O2 line. I'm not complaining though
 
Is Infinity truly unlimited during the day as long a your not downloading say mad amounts? The 18 contract put me off.

IDNets 30gig peak is killing me. I'm going nuts before it hits 9am here to get what I need.
 
tm1210 said:
Is Infinity truly unlimited during the day as long a your not downloading say mad amounts? The 18 contract put me off.

IDNets 30gig peak is killing me. I'm going nuts before it hits 9am here to get what I need.
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I've done over a terabyte this month and counting ;) (a lot of it during the day)
 
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Davola said:
Ordered this today, got to wait until the 16th of May for the engineer come and "install" it.

I'll just stick this here then I can quote myself when I run the test again with infinity!

Before:

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Finally got this installed today after there was some fault at the box the first time they tried to install it.

Have to say it's a bit of an improvement so far :)



Not sure how true this is but the engineer said that the speed will double by Christmas.
 
Davola said:
Finally got this installed today after there was some fault at the box the first time they tried to install it.

Have to say it's a bit of an improvement so far :)



Not sure how true this is but the engineer said that the speed will double by Christmas.
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That's what the engineer told me too, they plan to upgrade the service due to rivalry competitors(Virgin Media).
 
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After ordering way back in April and pushing back the order date I have finally got Infinity. I'm used to 2Mb connection at home so this is just awesome!

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My speed started off at 37.5mb/s about a month ago, but has started to gradually fall so that it is now just over 32mb/s. However the upload seems to have gone up slightly from 7.8mb/s to just over 8mb/s. This is on speedtest.net and downloading from newsgroups seems to confirm it.

My profile on the BT speedtester is set to 38mb/s (edit: I think, it could be 40mb/s - upload is definitely 10mb/s though), even though the tests on that come back at 20 mb/s for some reason.

I have had to reboot my own router (a watchguard firebox edge) a couple of times when it has fallen over for some reason, but that has no effect on speed (as I'd expect - its the modem that would control that for the most part) but I'm nervous to reboot the modem in case it resyncs at a worse speed than I have at the moment, as I've heard rebooting the modem too many times can have an adverse effect on speed.

Am I being overly paranoid/pessimistic do you think, and should just go ahead and reboot the modem and the router at the same time? Has anyone else seen a very gradual drop in speed or is it just me? Could it be because I am using my own router and should go back to the Home Hub?

Would welcome opinions - thanks.
 
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I am not sure it applies to Infinity and a modem, But with ADSL & ADSL2+ constantly resting your router can affect your sync speed to the DSLAM, too many resyncs are deemed as connection errors and the DSLAM will drop your IP profile to try and combat this.
If i was you i would reboot your rmodem late one night (after 1am if possible) as your exchange will have less traffic/network congestion so you should theoretically sync at the best speed possible.
Rebooting it once will not cause any problems. :) But dont do it again for at least 3 days even if you get a lower sync.

What you have to remember with Infinity is even though it is fibre to the cabinet you are still using copper to get from the green cabinet to your house and this is notorious for noise etc, and even some of BT`s cabling is aluminum and not even copper haha
 
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I finally ditched the HH3 and switched over to a Netgear WNB2100. Seems like my pings have dropped even lower, faster browsing speeds and the wireless range is insane. Seems like the HH3 was limiting the full potential of this line/speed :)
 
woffle99 said:
My speed started off at 37.5mb/s about a month ago, but has started to gradually fall so that it is now just over 32mb/s.

Has anyone else seen a very gradual drop in speed or is it just me? .
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I think most Infinity people will see gradual drops, as more people join up to the service then more noise is introduced in the cabinet and along bunched up lines etc.
 
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