BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Allnamestaken · 14 Oct 2013 at 11:32

Wish they would actually be competent enough to finish my installation >_>

Poo on here desks I tell you.

twist3d0n3 · 14 Oct 2013 at 12:50

twist3d0n3 said:
mine has been getting progressively worse since the cab is 'accepting orders'. gone from a sync of 8900 odd kbps to 5200 odd.

going to upgrade soon since what they're charging mother dearest atm is 2 quid less than the 38mbps package, when we're on the 8mbps package.

and to make matters worse, my connection now drops approximately every ~15 minutes... this is utterly ****ing ridiculous

bremen1874 · 14 Oct 2013 at 12:54

twist3d0n3 said:
and to make matters worse, my connection now drops approximately every ~15 minutes... this is utterly ****ing ridiculous

That sounds more like a line fault than anything related to other people having FTTC.

twist3d0n3 · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:31

bremen1874 said:
That sounds more like a line fault than anything related to other people having FTTC.

no doubt, just got off the phone with them and they're sending out one of the plebs at some point to look at it.

weird thing is, since it's stopped raining, it hasn't dropped....

bremen1874 · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:06

Problems caused by the weather seem to be quite common. Water getting into joints, water related corrosion, dodgy overhead lines and high winds, etc.

El Jimben · 14 Oct 2013 at 21:27

twist3d0n3 said:
and to make matters worse, my connection now drops approximately every ~15 minutes... this is utterly ****ing ridiculous

I had this when I had it installed and it turned out that there was a fault on the line. The BT engineer that came reckoned we must've had it for ages though the connection didn't drop that often when we had ADSL.

Has anyone complained to BT about their line speed being a lot less than estimated and if so what was the outcome? I know it's "up to x" but I'm getting 25.5Mbps compared to the 35.9Mbps that was estimated.

anything I don't mind · 18 Oct 2013 at 10:54

I just got a £88 (refund) cheque from BT. Believe it :0

It was not easy but in the end I felt proud.

RedvGreen · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:16

Where I am moving to (all being well), it currently only has ADSL upto 16Mb/s. FTTC is rolling out December this year, but unsure what speeds will be, and how reliable it will be too...

Currently on Virgin 125Mb/s, so it will hurt bad!

Cosimo · 18 Oct 2013 at 11:32

This just appeared in my inbox:

Dear Sir

Thank you for your e-mail

xxxxxxxxx Exchange Cabinet xx is in the final stages of testing and commissioning and should be available towards the end of October 2013.

Regards

NGA Enquiries

Dare I uncross my fingers now.

uncle_rufus · 18 Oct 2013 at 15:40

Cosimo said:
This just appeared in my inbox:

Dare I uncross my fingers now.

Apologies I can't tell from the quote and am too lazy to look back through the thread :rolleyes:

- who did you email to ask about this?

KIA · 18 Oct 2013 at 15:58

uncle_rufus said:
Apologies I can't tell from the quote and am too lazy to look back through the thread - who did you email to ask about this?

[email protected]

Brummies · 19 Oct 2013 at 13:45

Still waiting on my notification of price increase from BT, seems a lot of people have had it already nothing for me so far.

Locky · 20 Oct 2013 at 13:07

Brummies said:
Still waiting on my notification of price increase from BT, seems a lot of people have had it already nothing for me so far.

Nothing so far here?

El Jimben · 20 Oct 2013 at 14:33

I swear there was some kind of facility on the BT website to check whether or not you'd be affected by the increase but I can't find it now.

No-One · 20 Oct 2013 at 18:52

Got Zen fibre unlimited ordered. Being installed on the 28th. Predicted 60 meg. Already got a cat5e cable installed around the house so I can have my router in a different room while still having the modem at the master socket

Randomface74 · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:00

Well... since having switched a month ago:

FTTP gives better pings than FTTC. Something like 10ms instead of 25ms. So it's handy for gaming, but not a big deal.

300MB vs 80MB isn't such a big deal, most servers aren't capable of serving at that speed anyway. Only things like Steam, torrents, newsgroups can take advantage of it - but then it's a case of downloading something in 1 minute instead of 3 minutes... either way you boil the kettle and it's done.

So... going FTTP is cool, but going for the top package isn't.

Allnamestaken · 20 Oct 2013 at 19:07

Lucky for you guys, I live in the centre of ipswich and I have 2mb internet while the rest of the towns cabinets all seem to serve fibre from there respective exchanges.

****ing gay.

Phreaky · 21 Oct 2013 at 08:11

billysielu said:
Well... since having switched a month ago:

FTTP gives better pings than FTTC. Something like 10ms instead of 25ms. So it's handy for gaming, but not a big deal.

300MB vs 80MB isn't such a big deal, most servers aren't capable of serving at that speed anyway. Only things like Steam, torrents, newsgroups can take advantage of it - but then it's a case of downloading something in 1 minute instead of 3 minutes... either way you boil the kettle and it's done.

So... going FTTP is cool, but going for the top package isn't.

I don't think 300mbit is anything more than a vanity project for home users - 100/10 over fibre with no cap for a decent price is pretty much the holy grail for home internet and especially for online gaming.

OllyM · 21 Oct 2013 at 08:23

billysielu said:
FTTP gives better pings than FTTC. Something like 10ms instead of 25ms. So it's handy for gaming, but not a big deal.

FTTC can have low pings. Obviously it depends if your line is decent enough to have no interleaving and where you are in the country but I can ping the BBC in <7ms from my Sky FTTC 80/20 connection.

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 received, 0% packet loss, time 13020ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.511/6.731/6.948/0.148 ms

Nick1881 · 21 Oct 2013 at 08:31

My BT Infinity 2 contract has come to an end, should I just leave it as it is? Switch to get a better deal, get a better deal from BT, or wait for FTTP or something?