BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

bulldog147 said:
BT Wholesale Checker had made change again. Reduced on both download & upload speed from this morning.

Anyone else had noticed it? The left side is old one, the right side is made change today (new one)

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Mines changed too, The checker is useless for speed estimates, it's only partly useful of telling you if you can get fttc or not.

My cab is about 15 meters away.
 
Sound like BT FTTC is going downhill with speed. The only speed above is Virgin Media Cable.

We have to wait for BT to roll out vectoring to improve the speed increase but knowing BT (probably they will not roll out likely until FTTC roll out had complete first)
 
The impacted figures on mine have dropped the rest is still the same.

So far mines been running full speed any time I've needed the speeds for the last couple of months anyhow - 74Mbit/s download speeds unless limited by the other end and finally getting 19Mbit upload to anywhere thats not limited by the other end (for awhile they seemed to be limiting single connections to either 6mbit or 10mbit on upload depending on site for some reason).
 
BT have always been pretty good at keeping their backhauls in the green. Crosstalk is big problem though as the cables dive underground in a 30 year old unshielded multicore. We keep hearing about vectoring but it's not exactly happening quickly.
 
Locky said:
Mines changed too, The checker is useless for speed estimates, it's only partly useful of telling you if you can get fttc or not.

My cab is about 15 meters away.
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It's dropped to 71/18 :eek:

Oh my what will you do lol

Seriously people are spoilt with connection speed if you are complaining about that. Are you really going to notice in real world?

You get a movie in 2mins instead of 1m45
 
I have had 80/20 since day dot (about 3 years) and still get over 100mb attainable rate, but the cab is close and the Disde brand new. It's the BT backhaul round here that's poor, I get sub 20mbs throughput most nights and shoots back to to 76 offpeak.
 
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I been asked BTw to have BTw speedtest to add on features like FTTC Capacity Check, FTTC Crosstalk Check, Exchange Congestion Check, IP Profile Check. But, sadly BTw rejected it.
 
So, any ideas how I get some more information, about my cabinet go live date.

The cabinet was installed about 6 weeks ago, and I've had no communications from BT, Openreach website says Exchange is ready (which we know), and Infinity checker says not available to my number.

I've been emailing [email protected], who kept giving me random dates, then they sent me to superfastnorthyorkshire.com, who now say its back with BT as they aren't managing it.

[email protected] is now closed....so.....stuck?

I've rung BT and they were no help what so ever....

Just wait and see?
 
Locky said:
I have even asked my contact in ELC and he doesn't have a date for a fix in my area.

From what I have read is BT don't care and are not going to fix it and state there is no congestion.
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BT don't care :S I used my ELC contact to query the routing (I'm routed onto the internet via sheffield and I live almost as south as you can get in England) and all that happened was they renamed the node from something like sheffield.21cn-metro.bt.net to sf.21cn-ipp.bt.net and told me it was "fixed", when I brought it up again I was told it was "complicated". Not that its a major deal as such except it adds 10ms onto my pings for no good reason and means that I'm affected by country wide faults again for no good reason :S (previously went through reading RAS or sometimes bletchley or birmingham though birmingham was often more congested than sheffield).
 
Anyone else on ADSL24?

They've been bought/merged with Coms.com I got migrated earlier this month, been fine so far.

Was previously on ADSL24's Fibre 30 Ultra (30Gb peak, peak being 8am-8pm, off peak is all other times and all weekend) which was £30 a month. They have moved me onto their 'Coms Fibre 500' package which is £50 a month, obviously I'm still paying £30, which is the same as above but with 500Gb peak. Not a bad deal so far. :)

http://www.coms.com/coms-broadband

Lets just hope they dont break anything....
 
Rroff said:
BT don't care :S I used my ELC contact to query the routing (I'm routed onto the internet via sheffield and I live almost as south as you can get in England) and all that happened was they renamed the node from something like sheffield.21cn-metro.bt.net to sf.21cn-ipp.bt.net and told me it was "fixed", when I brought it up again I was told it was "complicated". Not that its a major deal as such except it adds 10ms onto my pings for no good reason and means that I'm affected by country wide faults again for no good reason :S (previously went through reading RAS or sometimes bletchley or birmingham though birmingham was often more congested than sheffield).
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Sheffield is about 35miles north of me so not a massive issue but it's ALWAYS been the route of my problems, my connection is fine until it hits the Sheffield node.
 
Just been told that BT Infinity is in my area and I'm 0.7 miles from my local exchange. What speed do you think I'll get?

Hold on Sam knows says my local exchange does not have BT Cable?!

CMCHEL is my exchange code.
 
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