BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

I can get FTTP On demand apparently, Haven't really researched it but bet its probably expensive, I'm about 500m from the cab if that matters.

I mean...80meg download does seem slow now compared to 330meg I guess :rolleyes:
 
S2KIP said:
What are BT like for FTTC now? I was with them before and everything was routing via Sheffield causing high ping, is this still the case?

Thinking of moving from Sky in order to get BT Sports for free.
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They _seem_ to have stopped the crazy routing through Sheffield - atleast on all the connections I know of that were affected by it including mine.

Here is what mine used to be:

Tracing route to bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.71]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms www.asusnetwork.net [192.168.1.1]
2 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 172.16.14.3
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.120.158.174
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.120.158.173
5 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms 217.32.145.106
6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 217.41.169.247
7 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms 217.41.169.109
8 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms acc2-10GigE-9-2-0.sf.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.25
1.221]
9 19 ms 16 ms 15 ms core1-te0-0-0-6.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.25
1.157]
10 15 ms 16 ms 20 ms peer2-xe10-1-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.
254.116]
11 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 194.74.65.42
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 18 ms 14 ms 18 ms ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
15 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 132.185.255.149
16 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms bbc-vip116.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.71]

Trace complete.
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Here is what it is now:

Tracing route to bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.90]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 31.55.187.188
5 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 195.99.127.184
6 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 195.99.127.7
7 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 194.74.65.42
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
10 9 ms 8 ms 7 ms 132.185.255.165
11 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms bbc-vip011.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.90]

Trace complete.
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First world problems and all but when I'm close to as far from Sheffield as you can get in this country and then it has to bounce back to London before I got out onto the internet it was kind of stupid.
 
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Apparently the average distance from the customer to the typical aggregation node is actually 500m, but you may be closer or further away, you'd have to investigate further to find out.
 
So after 6 months trying to get FTTP sorted (we're in a MDU that BT have installed fibre to), I finally have an ONT on the wall in our flat. Unfortunately BT have still routed our fibre to the wrong side of the splitter in the exchange and therefore we still have no internet.

Fingers crossed this last hurdle is days rather than the months it's taken up to now to resolve
 
If I were to upgrade to the BT Sport Pack would my current Infinity contract be effected? Or is it like Plusnet a one month rolling contract for BT Sport?

I'm about 3-4 months in to it and would rather not extend it any longer as i've paid LRS upfront too but I want the BT Sport Pack at the moment I have BT Sport Lite.
 
Uncle_Gravy said:
I can get FTTP On demand apparently, Haven't really researched it but bet its probably expensive, I'm about 500m from the cab if that matters.

I mean...80meg download does seem slow now compared to 330meg I guess :rolleyes:
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Fibre on demand isn't being sold at the moment.

Costs vary, but for the average property, installation is likely to cost a few grand and monthly rental will be in the hundreds.
 
Haven't had internet since yesterday...

Still wasn't working when i got home from work today so i done some investigation.

Apparently Openreach were doing work on the mast and phone lines yesterday, removed my old phone line and didn't fit a new one....

Not happy :mad:
 
Because they can raise their prices. And it depends on your deal and the wording. If your deal is 'half price' or '£x off' then if they put the price up the price you pay increases. If your deal is a set '£10 per month' then even if they increase the price the price you pay won't change.
 
Currently have the below stats on my Draytek 2850n. I'm thinking about upgrading to the 2860n for g.inp and for when vectoring arrives but not sure of the speed increase.

How does G.INP perform on long-lines?

VDSL
Link Status Showtime
Firmware Version 1414c3
Basic Status Upstream Downstream Unit
VDSL Profile 17a
Actual Data Rate 989 3094 Kb/s
SNR 60 70 0.1dB
Advance Status Upstream Downstream Unit
Actual delay 0 16 ms
Actual INP 0 80 0.1 symbols
Actual INP 0 80 0.1 symbols
15M CV 0 0 counter
1Day CV 0 150 counter
15M FEC 0 16 counter
1Day FEC 0 185312 counter
Total FEC 0 12993377 counter
Previous Data Rate 989 3094 Kbps
Attainable Rate 977 4155 Kbps
Electrical Length 405 405 0.1 dB
SNR Margin 60 60 (US0,--) 0.1 dB
SNR Margin N/A 70 (US1,DS1) 0.1 dB
SNR Margin N/A N/A (US2,DS2) 0.1 dB
SNR Margin N/A N/A (US3,DS3) 0.1 dB
SNR Margin N/A N/A (US4,DS4) 0.1 dB
15M Elapsed time 56 56 secs
15M FECS 0 2 counter
15M ES 0 0 counter
15M SES 0 0 counter
15M LOSS 0 0 counter
15M UAS 0 0 counter
1Day Elapsed time 77456 77456 secs
1Day FECS 0 4964 counter
1Day ES 0 25 counter
1Day SES 0 3 counter
1Day LOSS 0 0 counter
1Day UAS 0 0 counter
Total FECS 0 545626 counter
Total ES 313 5142 counter
Total SES 0 646 counter
Total LOSS 0 10 counter
Total UAS 552 1144 counter
 
So first activation date was 17th of september, they cut off my sky on the 20th. Today was supposed to be the 5th attempt at activation only to be told today they need to send an engineer around to my house tomorrow. Cant work from home as no internet so this is becoming very very annoying.
Rant over.
 
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