BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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Man of Honour
Edit- working. So rather than delete the below if someone gets the same error, exactly as Giganit suggests but the username [email protected] works for me.
Thanks Gigabit and Sparx
No such luck using my original Openreach modem. Same as it used to be, wan port of Airport to Lan1 on modem. When browsing I get the below error
Have I missed something?
Username is [email protected] & password (have to put something)
Thanks Gigabit and Sparx
No such luck using my original Openreach modem. Same as it used to be, wan port of Airport to Lan1 on modem. When browsing I get the below error
Have I missed something?
Username is [email protected] & password (have to put something)
Finally got faster internet after waiting a year and a half for the cabinet to be upgraded (last in the village). Previously been making do with 3meg.
Much happier now...
Just need to pop into the post office tomorrow to pick up my unifi security gateway.
Much happier now...
Just need to pop into the post office tomorrow to pick up my unifi security gateway.
Soldato
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Yep. I'm using a USG along with a Draytek 130 VDSL modem and a couple of Unifi AC-LR's.
There's a big thread on Ubiquiti stuff so it might be worth having a read through that.
Man of Honour
Anyone getting significant slow down during peak hours? I was on TalkTalk syncing at the near max for Infinity 2 and never had a slow down (looking at my microserver logs downloading at varying times) however, on BT Infinity 1 still syncing at the max for that, I'm seeing it go no higher than 7mb from Friday night, until early hours of the morning and then from 11am all weekend until ~2am this morning back up to full speed.
It's the same kit, same cabinet, is it simply just BT congested and TalkTalk wasn't because fewer customers?
It's the same kit, same cabinet, is it simply just BT congested and TalkTalk wasn't because fewer customers?
yeah - Ubiquiti AP handles all the wireless stuff. I switched from Sky to BT recently , the great thing about using the Ubiquiti AP was all the wirless stuff in the house didn't need changing passwords/networks etc as they are all still on the same AP, despite changing routers and providers etc. Saved loads of time.
Man of Honour
That's what I assumed too. It's peculiar. I tried logging into upstairs too a couple of times using the BT Wifi details and their's was slow too.
Strange.
Soldato
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So STILL can't get Infinity here. I had some expectation and excitement as our exchange for a while was showing as being upgraded. Now the exchange is showing as fibre enabled but I still get the message that I can't get Infinity where I live.
Fed up of waiting now. It might sound a bit entitled, but really I'm not far from the centre of the second biggest city in the country and in 2016 this seems shoddy given all we hear about the importance of high speed internet.
Not willing to go back to Virgin after my last experience with them, so do I have any other options to get better than my current 17Mb/s down, 1Mb/s up or do I just have to suck it up and keep on waiting for God knows how long?
Fed up of waiting now. It might sound a bit entitled, but really I'm not far from the centre of the second biggest city in the country and in 2016 this seems shoddy given all we hear about the importance of high speed internet.
Not willing to go back to Virgin after my last experience with them, so do I have any other options to get better than my current 17Mb/s down, 1Mb/s up or do I just have to suck it up and keep on waiting for God knows how long?
Soldato
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If you're getting 17/1 you must be very close to the exchange. It's quite possibly an exchange only (OE) line which would explain why you can't get fibre.
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Yeah, not far from the exchange, which at least means I get pretty near the advertised speeds for my connection. It's starting to feel slow though, with data throughput increasing for so many things.
Guessing there aren't going to be any other options then? I've tried those sites that claim to search by postcode for available deals, but the results they return include some I know I can't actually get.
Guessing there aren't going to be any other options then? I've tried those sites that claim to search by postcode for available deals, but the results they return include some I know I can't actually get.
Soldato
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You may still get fibre. They've just go to decide that it's worth their while to install a cabinet outside the exchange (assuming there's room).
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Right. Is this the kind they do if you ring and ask, or just have to wait until they decide it's worth their while?
I've never seen any congestion type slowdowns on my main or another FTTC connection I use regularly - any time of day or night I've maxed out the sync speed.
Am starting to see some issues with regard to cross talk or the likes pulling attainable sync speeds down a little though - was amusing when we had power cuts here and at one point 9/10th of the town was out but myself and few surrounding premises still had power and the SNR, etc. jumped way up with everyone else offline.
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Anyone having any DNS issues using the home hub 6?
I have a small number of websites which I can't access and throw up a DNS error.
The hub doesn't allow you to manually update to use for example Google DNS, so nut sure what else I can do to check this?
Chris
I have a small number of websites which I can't access and throw up a DNS error.
The hub doesn't allow you to manually update to use for example Google DNS, so nut sure what else I can do to check this?
Chris
Use a static IP on your computer and manually set DNS to Google.