BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

stellasuppa · 8 Feb 2017 at 16:43

KIA;30483450 said:
Don't take his word for it.

EE + topcashback or quidco.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband-offers.html

Thanks will look into the cash back offers i haver never used them before

Orcvader · 8 Feb 2017 at 17:05

Noticed this: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...-fttp-sogea-3db-21cn-wbc-broadband-plans.html

Apparently Openreach anticipate that “only around 10% of FTTC lines will be moved to new margin value” and perhaps unsurprisingly the lines excluded include those on ECI DSLAMs (street cabinets). ECI kit has rather a flaky history when it comes to introducing VDSL2 enhancements.

Sucks to be on an ECI cabinet

. Perhaps BT needs to start replacing them...

Jez · 8 Feb 2017 at 19:24

Mentioned that a few pages back, luckily for me i am on a relatively new BDUK funded Huawei :cool:

andy_mk3 · 8 Feb 2017 at 20:16

That sucks, I'm on an ECI DSLAM. What was the point in having two different types to start with? Surely that's only going to cause issues.

Steveocee · 8 Feb 2017 at 23:06

Anyone else read THE email today from BT? £2.50 rise in April. It's not the reason however it has given me my "get out of jail free card" to end my contract early. I'm now moving and no longer need the BT line so I'm 4 months into a 12 month contract and I get to leave it (new house already has a service by other means).

bremen1874 · 8 Feb 2017 at 23:14

If you do a complete cease on the broadband Openreach will most likely still want their £30 or whatever the current charge is. That's still a lot better than having to pay off the broadband contract and having to pay the cease charge.

V F · 9 Feb 2017 at 02:35

Heh!

ChrisD. · 9 Feb 2017 at 08:33

Yay for ECI cabinets.

He said sarcastically.

russ9898 · 9 Feb 2017 at 15:05

ChrisD.;30485614 said:
Yay for ECI cabinets.

He said sarcastically.

This! Majority of cabs in Stoke are ECI cabs, thankfully I live relatively close to my cab.

Beasty · 10 Feb 2017 at 09:48

Steveocee;30485033 said:
Anyone else read THE email today from BT? £2.50 rise in April. It's not the reason however it has given me my "get out of jail free card" to end my contract early. I'm now moving and no longer need the BT line so I'm 4 months into a 12 month contract and I get to leave it (new house already has a service by other means).

Yes mine is up going up by £4 (BT Sport too)

Currently weighing up my options, I have BT Sport on my Sky so the price of that would increase should I leave.

I couldn't get Virgin when I was renting but having bought a house very recently it is now a possibility and Infinity 2 is only giving me 50-60 down and 13-15 up now, which makes it seem poor value.

SuperOwl86 · 10 Feb 2017 at 09:55

Not sure if to try and get a deal out of BT when we get the letter or to look for somewhere else.

ScottyJKB · 10 Feb 2017 at 10:46

neologan;30459238 said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned further down the thread.

just to warn users - BT has rencently announced price increases. You can check to see if/how your bill will be affected here: https://www.bt.com/static/wa/account/pricechanges/login/login.html?s_cid=con_FURL_myprices

Mine is to increase by £3 (from 2nd April) and i only just switched to BT 15 days ago... nice....

Don't forget that when your contract changes like the above, you have the right to leave without any penalties.

Only just took my 12 month contract out a couple of weeks ago... :rolleyes:

Kol · 10 Feb 2017 at 10:59

TIp- don't get the line rental saver. I only did because I prefer to get this done and paid for but screws you over in these instances. Can't negotiate as you're tied in or lose your line rental.

SuperOwl86 · 10 Feb 2017 at 11:08

Thankfully my line rental saver ends in a couple of weeks. Tempted to move to Vodafone now. for £24 40meg or £28 for 80meg.

KIA · 10 Feb 2017 at 19:21

Kol;30489822 said:
TIp- don't get the line rental saver..

This 1000x. It just isn't worth it.

Brummies · 10 Feb 2017 at 22:15

Got my email. £2.50 increase here.

Looking around most only offer 18 month contracts now it seems, even Sky.

Naan_H · 11 Feb 2017 at 00:18

Just a little tip if you are wanting a landline only - there is a deal called home phone saver 2019 - its not actively advertised on their website but its £21.99 fixed for line rental and anytime calls for upto an hour until 2019, this also includes BT Call Protect, BT Privacy at Home and BT Privacy at Home - Caller Display.

I already had virgin installed a couple of months back and have a rock solid 221 Mbit connection, and was still in contract for infinity till April. The price hike has allowed me to cancel infinity early without a charge.

The wife wants a landline and i want to keep it incase virgin goes belly up and i can be up and running with infinity as a backup within a couple of weeks if needs be.

KIA · 11 Feb 2017 at 17:51

£21.99 seems expensive. :/

MonsterMoshi · 11 Feb 2017 at 18:18

Naan_H;30492545 said:
Just a little tip if you are wanting a landline only - there is a deal called home phone saver 2019 - its not actively advertised on their website but its £21.99 fixed for line rental and anytime calls for upto an hour until 2019, this also includes BT Call Protect, BT Privacy at Home and BT Privacy at Home - Caller Display.

I already had virgin installed a couple of months back and have a rock solid 221 Mbit connection, and was still in contract for infinity till April. The price hike has allowed me to cancel infinity early without a charge.

The wife wants a landline and i want to keep it incase virgin goes belly up and i can be up and running with infinity as a backup within a couple of weeks if needs be.

Surely cheaper to get a virgin landline?

TheVoice · 11 Feb 2017 at 19:05

TheVoice;30477040 said:
Is there likely to be a noticeable difference in sync speed between using the 3-ish metre cable my HomeHub came with, vs a 10m one? At the moment my router is in one corner of my living room with most of my kit in the other side meaning I have to use homeplugs/wifi, but I'd prefer to have the router near the TV, NAS etc and connect with cables.

As an update, bought a 10m decent quality ADSL cable from Amazon for £5, works perfectly and still syncing at the same rate as before.