BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

finally after months of waiting and slipping activation dates the bt engineer has just left and a quick speed test showed 78 down 18 up - very very happy

the engineer told me to hammer the downloads for the first 10 days, something about this will set my usage bandwidth !

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Thank you for your enquiry about fibre broadband, you are connected directly to the exchange and not via a telephony cabinet located in the street, this is referred to as an E/O line.

Our deployment is based on the commercial criteria for each exchange and in turn, how broadband is delivered from the exchange. Unfortunately, as your line is fed directly from the exchange it fails to meet the commercial criteria. This is because the solution to deploy Fibre Broadband to lines connected this way would not provide a return on the investment based on the costs for the construction and on-going running costs.

We do not currently have any plans to upgrade E/O lines at this exchange
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PanMaster said:
"xxx mb" doesn't mean anything. Is that down & up or just down?:confused:
Virgin Media don't have enough cross-Atlantic bandwidth or at least problems with international routing based on things mentioned here. BT are taking forever to provide Infinity but at least they have decent infrastructure at the national level.

For gaming latency & reliability is all that matters and that is where Virgin Media sucks the most.
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Hopefully there will be none of these issues when my install goes live this Monday. The cabinet is effectively in my block of flats basement.

100MB up and download should be a bit of an improvement on the ~2mb d/l Ive been suffering with for the last 3 years.

Not sure if its worth making a seperate thread about HyperOptic (as its a completely different type of install, being direct to particular/shared buildings) but so far I have nothing but good things to say about the company........hopefully that continues :D
 
I'm looking forward to fiber. A month ago the openreach checker said my area would get it in "December 2013". A little bit down the road, in the centre of the village, I can now see many Openreach vans, tents etc pulling out a few cabinets.

Is there anyway to know if your local cabinet is going to be upgraded? I can see mine from my window and I look, perhaps too often, to see if anyone is near it XD
 
Just ordered my BT Infinity this morning after Virgin raised the price on my fibre again. I was told that I should expect 60-77Mbps, how accurate would that be?
 
HH5 arrived yesterday, BT engineer coming tomorrow apparently, finally getting Infinity after the cab got upgraded to FTTC aeons (maybe a year) ago :D
 
Smoogels said:
I'm looking forward to fiber. A month ago the openreach checker said my area would get it in "December 2013". A little bit down the road, in the centre of the village, I can now see many Openreach vans, tents etc pulling out a few cabinets.

Is there anyway to know if your local cabinet is going to be upgraded? I can see mine from my window and I look, perhaps too often, to see if anyone is near it XD
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Maybe this...
https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html

...and/or this
http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/fibre/checker.php
If it gives you a phase number then it is in the planned rollout, if not then maybe it isn't. Of course any dates are meaningless as problems may arise.
 
Ur round next said:
Hi guys..Can anyone answer this please..

Iv just gone onto samknows and my exchange search shows this, FTTC status:

RFS date set : 31/12/2013

What does RFS mean?
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Just don't get all your hopes up at the moment.
End of quarter dates (March, June, September, December (end of)) have been known to just be holding dates. So as the date approaches it'll suddenly slip till the next end of quarter date.
Fingers crossed this isn't the case for your exchange.
 
Tesla said:
What is the router of choice for use with Infinity?

My customer has had no end of issues with various BT supplied products and wishes to purchase something more robust.

Would it be best to use an all-in-one fibre modem/router or keep the open reach modem and use a cable router?
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For some years i've been using a pfsense based router, together with some AP's, for years I've been using a Via C3 based router with 256MB RAM(actually have one unused MB with RAM in some of my moving boxes somewhere....! ;)) which has been very stable.

Although being the gadget loving guy I am, I'm looking to upgrade to a low power Intel Atom MB, maybe based on N2600 or even http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400306851785?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

And for AP's i know that these days things have changed a lot, in general I guess most of consumer AP's are working fine, but in the early days of WIFI I had many different makes and brands, and to be honest they all sucked, were overheated, didn't like too many connections at a time(read torrent), or had just a bad performance(routing), so the first truly stable AP I found were Apple Airport Extreme 4th generation, so I stuck with them, now upgraded to latest Airport Extreme, and using my old 4th gen as a extender.

I would otherwise might consider Asus RT-AC68U AC1900 or even the router which i just use as AP, the new Apple Airport Extreme(with support for AC protocol).
 
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stoofa said:
Just don't get all your hopes up at the moment.
End of quarter dates (March, June, September, December (end of)) have been known to just be holding dates. So as the date approaches it'll suddenly slip till the next end of quarter date.
Fingers crossed this isn't the case for your exchange.
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Hmmm. My current address has end of quarter dates bit the new one shows May 31st not June. Maybe that's a good thing ?
 
What kind of deals are people getting when renewing their Infinity contracts + line rental for 12 months?

My contract finishes on 04 Jan, and while I quite like the idea of not being tied in, Infinity is expensive.
 
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