BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

.Griff. said:
New toy arrived..

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Why would you want - need an JDSU? (unless you work for BT or alike)
 
I've had a nightmare with Virgin recently. They have admitted it's a high utilisation problem, but not high enough for them to report it as a fault and get it fixed, but it does cause a lot of issues at peak times.

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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/ce30feca97d2b4a6f402bec08189b10e.html shows the last 24 hours, I get up to 25% packet loss at times. It makes even browsing impossible at times.

Anyway, on to the positives. I just had BT Infinity installed today, worked straight "out of the box".

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Paying for 38mb down, 6mb up. Getting almost 7up and 36.5 down. I'm very happy :)

Peak time coming up and I plan on trying to watch some twitch.tv streams, we will see how it holds up.
 
Allnamestaken said:
LOL? They cant even give the service they currently give at reasonable level.

They may not be a charity but they bloody well should provide good service for customers which they definately do not. And as they own all the exchanges and the other providers have not run any fibre yet I am stuck.

Also they did not even give that as a response despite asking so it would seem they have not even done so.

Why defend them? 80% of the time they dont provide a good service and just because you have your infinity or decent line I should have to listen to you all high and mighty saying there not a charity?

If they cant run a decent service on my exchange then they should give it up to someone who can compete better.
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I'm not being all high and mighty, I have worked at a senior technical level within an ISP and I understand the business reasons for how & when BT roll out their services. In my experience, 95% of the time companies like BT DO provide a good service - it is the other 5% like you complaining like a spoilt child without considering the wider picture that give these companies a bad name.

There is absolutely nothing stopping other companies installing fibre in the ground (Virgin Media already do it, the Digital Region project in North Yorkshire have done it), the reason they haven't done it for you yet is because it probably isn't profitable enough to justify it.

Don't like it? Well then get your own fibre / lease line installed into your house or move to an area with better connectivity.
 
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dwskillz said:
tried changing your wireless channel before buying something else?
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Ya, makes little difference. Also that's not the main reason. Port forwarding seems to be generally broken, one second the port is up, then it's down, then it's up. Never had that experience with a router before.
 
dwskillz said:
That postcode is connected to cab 33

100% of premises in the IP2 0AR postcode are connected to cab 33

4% of premises on the IP2 0AD postcode are connected to cab 33

so basically only 2 postcodes are connected to cab 33
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did u get that info from a website ? got a url so i can check my postcode plz ? :)
 
Rumours around town that the uni want access to Fibre in the town and the next one over for some computing projects and are apparently paying for BTOR to do all the work.

Not sure if it's a) true or b) likely to roll out to residential areas but I live in hope :)
 
once a cabinet goes live do all ISPs get access to it and able to sell the service straight away or does BT infinity get priority first ?
 
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Finally got sick of BT's routing so switched to Sky. Get 7-8ms to bbc.co.uk instead of 20ms, much better.

I've hacked an image together by overlaying half BT and half Sky, so the times down the bottom don't make sense, but shows the change:

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Still not quite as good as Be ADSL but it's early days and I can't really complain!
 
Had a reply from the nice people at Openreach :

Dear Mr xxxx,

Thank you for your enquiry. You are connected to the xxxxx Exchange, cabinet x.

Our systems indicate that work is ongoing with the deployment of your cabinet and, if all goes to plan, we are hopeful the cabinet will be ready for service early-mid August 2013, barring any complications.
 
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