BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm
Not sure if anyone has ever posted the above in here but it's a cracking site to find out the current state of your local cabinets and exchanges and also shows you a rough location of where they are on a map!..... it works for me in my area anyway.
Enter a locality or postcode to lookup, click the relevant button, select all exchanges, then select all xx cabinets. It even tells you which cabinets/postcodes are earmarked/available for FTTP
Interesting site, thanks for the link
Bt need to stop messing around with all this trying to push speeds down copper.
We need to move over to FTTP, it will cover us for at least the next 10 years and won't have to deal with all this "up to" rubbish.
we also rely need to sort our upload out, most places offer a 1.1 connection, i would love 1gbps/1gbps
They probably won't do that unless forced to by either competition or the government. They will want to sweat the copper assets as much as possible before ripping them out and replacing with fibre.
Call them with regards BT Sports - just to make sure you aren't about to get charged for anything.
I got to the end of a BT contract and they suddenly started charging me for BT Sports HD.
I'll happily take the sports for free but I'm not going to pay anything for them.
Be worth the call.
At the moment I think you still need a copper overlay for voice, so they'd need to lay fibre and copper down - which obviously costs more.
Also, newsites/new builds are notorious for getting screwed up, a colleague of mine was waiting 9 months for his landline to get installed.
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https://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm
Not sure if anyone has ever posted the above in here but it's a cracking site to find out the current state of your local cabinets and exchanges and also shows you a rough location of where they are on a map!..... it works for me in my area anyway.
Enter a locality or postcode to lookup, click the relevant button, select all exchanges, then select all xx cabinets. It even tells you which cabinets/postcodes are earmarked/available for FTTP
cool link - just hoping that finally the date of 31st March 2015 sticks, since it was originally 31st March 2013 !!!!
BT themselves offer (and are installing) native FTTP in certain areas (and growing) with voice provided by a battery backup ONT on premise.
It does seem absolutely mad that the default provision for new build areas is not native FTTP?
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They're doing this in some new builds. The Lyde Green estate in Emersons Green, Bristol, for example has openreach FTTP in all properties.
So, being in a new build I've been stuck with ADSL2 for the past year. I figured I'd check out my availability to see how things are looking... I almost fell off my chair when I saw BT can provide 300mb to my connection! I even called them to confirm... I some how resisted immediately ordering, mainly due to the £50 a month cost compared to my crappy ADSL from Sky for £5 a month.
Which package?
Usage: I live with my gf and ADSL can't keep up with the sheer amount of Netflix + mobile usage. 76mb for £25 a month would be much better. However, 200mb is only £15 more! Would I ever really need 200mb in the next two years? I don't see me watching 4k unless it's via Netflix.
Networking limitations: My other consideration is everything in the house is WiFi. My router would be next to the front door and running Ethernet to the living room would be a massive ache. With the BT router, what is the likely cap in speeds for WiFi? I don't see the point in getting a package higher than that limit.
Edit: No other provider or website is saying I can get fibre by the way so I'm not 100% sure I can... BT website might be screwed or something.
Which package?
Usage: I live with my gf and ADSL can't keep up with the sheer amount of Netflix + mobile usage. 76mb for £25 a month would be much better. However, 200mb is only £15 more! Would I ever really need 200mb in the next two years? I don't see me watching 4k unless it's via Netflix.
Networking limitations: My other consideration is everything in the house is WiFi. My router would be next to the front door and running Ethernet to the living room would be a massive ache. With the BT router, what is the likely cap in speeds for WiFi? I don't see the point in getting a package higher than that limit.
Edit: No other provider or website is saying I can get fibre by the way so I'm not 100% sure I can... BT website might be screwed or something.
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FTTP isn't offered by many.
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Assuming that you're using the actual OpenReach checker rather than BT retail?
But yes, hardly any providers offer OpenReach FTTP. Partly because the coverage is rubbish, there's no point in them wasting any time marketing it to the 20 houses in the country that can get it.
The only providers I can name off the top of my head that offer it are BT retail (marketed as BT Infinity 3) and Andrews & Arnold.
Retail website says I can get it. Their sales staff stay i can get it but none of the other "checkers" say I can. Tested with full address and telephone number.
Would be interested to hear thoughts on if WiFi will max out the connection before I could ever use more than 76mb of a 200mb connection.
Check to see what speed your router is providing to your wireless devices
Stop being a cheapskate, install some proper Cat5e/Cat6 wiring
I should have done it when they were building the house! I took the approach of "meh, I'll only be here a few years and WiFi is advancing a lot quicker than my internet ever gets faster". I also figured I'd only need Ethernet if I was using a NAS. How wrong I was
Might just go for 76mb in that case. As pants creaming as 200mb would be, I just wouldn't use it on my own.