BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Their ownership is a bit hard to pin down, but they are simply a network equipment manufacturer. There would be a lot of mileage to be had out of finding some sort of backdoor in their products that allows data to be intercepted by the Chinese state, but this hasn't happened so far.

Ultimately if you feel your work is important enough that a nation state would spend time and money on getting hold of it then you should be testing equipment yourself, seeing what data it is sending/receiving, auditing the code if you're running open-source routing/switching platforms etc. Cisco routers have been targeted by the NSA during shipping and had things added to them, that didn't stop people buying Cisco.
 
APM said:
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I'm sure I read recently that Huawei are a Chinese state owned company that manufactures kit for and is heavily involved in covert data gathering so for me it's not so big a leap to say that.
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It's a huge leap. Why would large companies (such as BT themselves) use Huawei equipment for their infrastructure if they felt it wasn't secure?

There's enough conspiracy theorist nonsense in GD, let's not let it spill out into the rest of the forums.
 
TheVoice said:
It's a huge leap. Why would large companies (such as BT themselves) use Huawei equipment for their infrastructure if they felt it wasn't secure?

There's enough conspiracy theorist nonsense in GD, let's not let it spill out into the rest of the forums.
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Yes,there's a naivety to being British isn't there?

Those jolly old Chinese fellas couldn't have a dodgy bone in their bodies and if they did we'll just jolly well have to out honest them until they realise they're as nice as us really!

What what,chocks away,Roger Roger etc etc...

Hopefully I won't get tagged as being Racist now which I very much am not but in the world today I'm probably in for a lynching now.

You are correct gents,any dodgy code would have come to light by now,it's my frustrated rantings finding a way into the light for which I apologise profusely.
 
What are you talking about? All your super secret browsing is end-to-end HTTPS encrypted and a Huawei modem somewhere in the middle can't do anything about that. VPN tunnels are also encrypted.

Your horse porn DNS queries might be leaking out, but it seems strange to get worked up about Chinese equipment being in the network somewhere and then propose sourcing ECI kit as an alternative.
 
APM said:
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What speeds are you supposed to be getting?
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It's a managed leased line and documents say 80\20. Some days we get like above, others we get 75mb, some we get 5mb. They want £330 plus vat to come loo at the cable. For £13 we've a new cable and filter coming to try
 
I'd say the documents have been interpreted wrong or you've been mid-sold. It smells like an EoFTTC service which has a variable sync rate like any other FTTC connection.
 
Either way you're shagged really.

Choice is cheap Chinese kit which gives astonishing value for money or higher priced American stuff.

You can effect some psychological protection for yourself by using a VPN and relying on TLS sec but at the end of the day I would suspect that any state player could yank your chain whenever they wanted to really.

As mentioned above it's a good job the only traffic I'm trying to protect involves my increasingly failing attempts to hide my penile inadequacy from the world and,of course, there is no greater matter at issue such as the free mind expressing itself without fear being used as a controlling measure at all.
 
Lisapete said:
It's a managed leased line and documents say 80\20. Some days we get like above, others we get 75mb, some we get 5mb. They want £330 plus vat to come loo at the cable. For £13 we've a new cable and filter coming to try
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That sounds like a very sensible way to approach the issue.

I'm not sure what the exact figures are but I think if you get more than a certain percentage of time at the speeds you signed up for then the ISP is in the clear regarding contractual obligations.
 
So my BT Homehub, after 6 weeks, has died. BT are sending a new one out but it will take up to 5 working days.

Should I look to buy an Openreach modem and pair it with my Asus N56U router or just get an all in one? Need to find something today!
 
I'm a new BT customer of a week and I have just hooked up my N56U to an openreach modem I bought on flea bay.

Had to go to WAN settings and change connection type to PPPoE ,on the same page added a user name @btinternet.com and added a password and up and running.

Lost 7Mbps from the wireless connection on my phone though.
 
So I have the router working but I've lost my internet tv channels,could that be because I'm using non-UK DNS?
 
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pcfarrar said:
Have you done all the multicast settings in the IPTV section on the router?
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What should they be set to?

The bt hub is showing a different IP address to the Modem I bought so I was thinking maybe I need to have a chat with someone at BT and get the Modem's IP address added to my account?
 
Use the following settings in LAN > IPTV:

- Select ISP Profile = None

- Choose IPTV STB Port = None

- Use DHCP routes = Microsoft

- Enable multicast routing (IGMP Proxy) = Enable

- Enable efficient multicast forwarding (IGMP Snooping) = Enable

- UDP Proxy (Udpxy) = 0
 
Hi Gent's. I'll be getting FTTP shortly and I've been using a Nighthawk R8000 as a WAP for a good year or so. Would I be able to use the router aspect of the Nighthawk on the BT FTTP?

Thanks!
 
GDL said:
Hi Gent's. I'll be getting FTTP shortly and I've been using a Nighthawk R8000 as a WAP for a good year or so. Would I be able to use the router aspect of the Nighthawk on the BT FTTP?

Thanks!
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If it doesn't have a modem built in then you'd need an Openreach modem or Vigor 130.
 
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