BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

FWIW Rroff I switched to Sky because of the BT routing issue and Sky doesn't have the same problem. I know we've discussed this before but I am in zone 3 SW London and was getting routed to Sheffield and back. Daft.

Sky is very nice though:

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I will call BT now and see if another help person says I can get Cable.

BT don't do Cable? They only do fibre optic from the exchange to your street cabinet. And from your street cabinet to your property is copper wire.

The cable is only for virgin media.

Mind you, You will not getting 80Mbps throughput. More likely around 74 to 75Mbps with BT limit the ip profile capped 77.43Mbps from a maximum sync rate of 79999k.
 
BT don't do Cable? They only do fibre optic from the exchange to your street cabinet. And from your street cabinet to your property is copper wire.

Same as virgin then. Mine is copper from the cab. Waiting for someone to get back to me from BT
 
Virgin Media is fibre optic to the street cabinet then from street cabinet to your property is coaxial cable. I take it as you are with virgin national over the phone line (copper on older adsl with virgin?
 
My exchange has been FTTC enabled for a couple of years, but my cabinet has only last week had an FTTC cab installed adjacent to it, with another one 100m away [for anticipated extra capacity maybe?]

Does anyone know how long it may be before my cab goes live? The checker says 31 March, but that goalpost has been moved before. I'm gagging here! ;-)
 
My exchange has been FTTC enabled for a couple of years, but my cabinet has only last week had an FTTC cab installed adjacent to it, with another one 100m away [for anticipated extra capacity maybe?]

Does anyone know how long it may be before my cab goes live? The checker says 31 March, but that goalpost has been moved before. I'm gagging here! ;-)

Mine take 2 months going LIVE after cabinet first install last December 2013 as the exchange was fibre enabled in March 2012.
 
Virgin Media is fibre optic to the street cabinet then from street cabinet to your property is coaxial cable. I take it as you are with virgin national over the phone line (copper on older adsl with virgin?

Yes you are right "coaxial cable" for BB and copper for phone I think. I know that 2 lines came in to my place.

So can anyone on BT Infinity can tell me if their news group is full speed or capped? Virgin's one is full speed.
 
Contract ended on the 3rd think I'm gonna try Zen or someone, BT has been awful for gaming the past few months.

Are BT fobbing me off about not being able to give me the MAC code through livechat and that I have to ring up for it? I know some ISP's will try anything not to hand it over.
 
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Hey guys, any one know if I should be able to use a Netgear DG834N with FTTx?

I can't seem to find a list of compatible routers and I think that's a fairly common basic router.. EE are telling me it can't be compatible since I've entered my username and login but it's still not working....

Problem is they've sent me 3 Brightboxes now and none have arrived :S
 
So can I have my line rental with BT and just pay the FTTC price with Zen?

Yes you can do that. But, you have to pay premium price thought for without zen phone line. That's why I cannot afford Zen Fibre as it very expensive but Plusnet Fibre is fine what I got. Getting max out 73/18 all times for 2 weeks now.

Zen policy here:

Can I order Fibre Optic Broadband without line rental?

We appreciate that not everyone has broadband and phone contracts that run in sync, this is why we have made all our new Fibre products available with and without line rental.

There is a premium charge of £4.50 (£5.40 inc VAT) for taking Fibre only but when you are ready you can add your line rental and take advantage of the Fibre and Phones Package pricing.
 
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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.

Its more like 190 miles from me (straight line) :S not a huge huge issue in the grand scheme of things but a bit silly that my connection basically does an extra ~350miles just straight line distance for no real reason just to get out onto the internet.
 
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