BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Bt networks are having major issues in many areas, about 50 dial code areas have been fixed over the past week, with another twenty still on the list, looks like they are doing someone either in every area locally or something more central.
Could be this.
I had to reset loads in the last week as speed went from normally fast to no connection over and over.
 
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This means FTTC by end of December doesn't it?
 
GOOD NEWS: Cab went live this morning after a massive long wait \o/

BAD NEWS: Talktalk are showing 1 months lead time for fibre due to lack of engineer availability from openreach over the christmas period.

Damn :p
 
Is there anywhere I can check that'll give me some idea when this new cab that's been put next to the current cab in my area is gonna go live? BT Broadband checker and Superfast Cymru give no idea, just says, my cab is on the plan.

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Closest i've gotten here is it says " There is further fibre deployment planned for this exchange as part of the Superfast Cymru project commencing December 2014." So this new cab they've installed at the beginning of december "may" go live this month, guess i'll just have to wait and see :(
 
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Will be purchasing a new house soon which will require a full refurbishment, hence will have the chance to put network cables in throughout and stream content straight to my TV.

I'm looking to get BT Infinity, however not sure if it's worth paying the extra for 76Mb as opposed to 38Mb, usage is likely to be streaming films and downloading, does the 76Mb connection make much difference?
 
Furton said:
... does the 76Mb connection make much difference?
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Yes, it's roughly twice as fast. :D

More seriously it's a question only you can answer with your own insight into your typical usage. Typically I download a few hundred GB/month, but most of that is probably streaming video. If I look at my average usage over the past 3 months I can see that I'm using 1.5Mb/s 95% of the time so most of my usage would be unaffected by switching to a slower speed FTTC package. If large downloads played a bigger part then obviously faster speeds become more attractive.
 
Jez said:
GOOD NEWS: Cab went live this morning after a massive long wait \o/

BAD NEWS: Talktalk are showing 1 months lead time for fibre due to lack of engineer availability from openreach over the christmas period.

Damn :p
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You can almost taste it
 
Rroff said:
Sounds like DNS is hosed, try using google's in the meantime 8.8.8.8 IIRC.
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I'm not convinced that it is DNS based at all. I use Google's DNS servers normally, with OpenDNS as a backup, and my connection has been awful since the weekend.

But it varies, VPN'ing into work is fine and accessing non-UK websites is fine (so I don't think there is anything wrong with my actual connection) but accessing anything in the UK, e.g. here and Amazon UK, is awfully slow with it taking 30+ seconds just to change pages.
 
Jez said:
GOOD NEWS: Cab went live this morning after a massive long wait \o/

BAD NEWS: Talktalk are showing 1 months lead time for fibre due to lack of engineer availability from openreach over the christmas period.

Damn :p
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Ours went live here in Shropshire yesterday too, and lead time is 8 days :p
 
Randell Floyd said:
Ours went live here in Shropshire yesterday too, and lead time is 8 days :p
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Not surprised that mine is so long, its the story of my life as far as internet connections go. It seems surreal and unbeleivable that i am even going to get a fast connection to be honest :p
 
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