BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Jez · 13 Jan 2015 at 21:30

Haha indeed, it's absolutely amazing after a lifetime of slow rubbish

Rroff · 13 Jan 2015 at 21:36

Still getting 74/19 on speedtests here - it dropped a bit it the weeks following FTTC going live here probably from all the new people jumping onto it but after a bit stabilised again.

Jez · 13 Jan 2015 at 21:38

What did your line start out at? Out of context it's impossible to draw any conclusion from that

Westyfield2 · 13 Jan 2015 at 23:26

Wait until your neighbours get FTTC and your connection reduces by 17Mb/s because of the crosstalk

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Caged · 13 Jan 2015 at 23:30

Vectoring will sort it out. When it eventually arrives.

Twirlywoos · 14 Jan 2015 at 00:09

jasonsony735 said:
Sorry to tell you this but we all got these speeds on the day it was installed

I can tell you now it will drop down to about 55 after a month or so .... Kinda sucks in away as you know you can get those speeds but BT don't let you keep that profile for long.

Odd that, I've been with infinity for around 2 years now and my speeds haven't dropped.

bremen1874 · 14 Jan 2015 at 00:43

There are no absolutes.

The chances are that if you're an early adopter in an area then your attainable speed will drop as more people are connected to your cabinet.

If you're very close to the cabinet (and have a lot of margin spare) then you probably won't notice.

If the cabinet is already well populated when you get connected then the attainable speeds will already have dropped.

Vectoring should help a lot, but I doubt it'll ever happen in existing areas (unless it's a very minor and cheap upgrade).

Rroff · 14 Jan 2015 at 03:23

Jez said:
What did your line start out at? Out of context it's impossible to draw any conclusion from that

Bit complicated as I can't easily get the stats, at installation the engineer showed me 129/125 attainable on his device and was talking about a 30a trial supposedly live on the cabinet, last time I borrowed an unlocked VDSL modem was showing 109 downstream and 46.6 up.

Westyfield2 · 14 Jan 2015 at 09:31

Caged said:
Vectoring will sort it out. When it eventually arrives.

So far vectoring just seems to be this myth that has been talked about for ages but is never going to arrive

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Jez · 14 Jan 2015 at 09:35

Caged said:
Vectoring will sort it out. When it eventually arrives.

Pinning my hopes on this to recover my line to its initial full rate

If it ever arrives

matsquatch · 14 Jan 2015 at 14:26

My cabinet seems to have gone backwards - it was due 4 years ago, the local cabinet has been sat there (I assume waiting for a power supply) and had an end date of 31 Dec 14 - just checked and the main cabinet a few miles away has changed from Accepting Orders to Under Review. I live about 10 miles out of central Leeds, it's unbelievable!

sunny007 · 14 Jan 2015 at 19:28

What's FTTC ?

As my area now has BT infinity, I'm looking to move from Virgin Media.

Anyone done the same ?

Westyfield2 · 14 Jan 2015 at 19:59

FTTC is the technology used by OpenReach... to deliver the BT Infinity service, along with Sky Fibre, PlusNet Fibre, etc etc.

The acronym stands for Fibre To The Cabinet. This means that the connection between your streetside green cabinet and the telephone exchange is done over fibre optic. Only the 'short' distance between the streetside green cabinet and your modem/router is done over copper cable, using VDSL2 protocol.

In traditional ADSL broadband, you used copper all the way from your modem/router to the streetside green cabinet and from there onto the telephone exchange.

pgi947 · 14 Jan 2015 at 21:52

Can someone recommend me a replacement for my home hub 3? The thing is ******* me off eternally since getting a ps4, it randomly closes ports used by the ps4 (80 and 443 mainly) giving me major issues, tried every trick I can find, dmz, static ip, manual port forwarding with upnp both enabled and disabled. Basically pinned it down to the hh3 being complete ****.

Ideally looking to spend no more then £100, have two wired devices and around 5-7 wireless.

themul · 14 Jan 2015 at 22:22

pgi947 said:
Can someone recommend me a replacement for my home hub 3? The thing is ******* me off eternally since getting a ps4, it randomly closes ports used by the ps4 (80 and 443 mainly) giving me major issues, tried every trick I can find, dmz, static ip, manual port forwarding with upnp both enabled and disabled. Basically pinned it down to the hh3 being complete ****.

Ideally looking to spend no more then £100, have two wired devices and around 5-7 wireless.

Have a look at this.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/routers/tplink_TD-W9980_review.htm

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-127-TP

This one costs £70 including vat.

pgi947 · 14 Jan 2015 at 22:41

Is it a good idea to replace modem and router? As it is I have the white open reach modem with the hh3 hooked into that.

Caged · 14 Jan 2015 at 22:45

There is nothing wrong with the Openreach modem. If you have no issue with two boxes or the router you want to use doesn't have a VDSL modem built in then keep it.

pgi947 · 14 Jan 2015 at 22:51

Yeah, the open reach modem has been fine, no drop outs or anything and the bt engineer fitted it out of the way under my desk, just the hh3 seems to be the root cause of any issues I have.

So all in all I think I'd be easier keeping the modem and just getting a router....any recommendations?

It's been about 7 years since I've had to purchase a router of any description so massively out of the loop!!

Thanks for the replies so far

Caged · 14 Jan 2015 at 23:29

I have a Sonicwall NSA 220 but that is completely impractical for you. I think the Asus AC units are quite highly rated though.

hughesy627 · 14 Jan 2015 at 23:44

Infinity 2 is due to be up and running 28 Jan for me, they said i dont need engineers install, just wait for text and then connect hh5, anyone else have this? My mates all had an engineer install infinity 2 for them.