BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

fergie128 said:
I'm using Speedtest.net. My PC is wired in to a secondary Netgear R7500 router (the BT hub is only acting as a modem, no firewall and all traffic passed to my router. I'll try again later with my laptop wired straight into the BT Hub just to see. But I've have tests ranging from 8mb to 74mb, no 2 ever seem to be the same just now. Hopefully it will settle down a bit over the next few days!
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Post your connection stats from the BT Hub.
 
fergie128 said:
I'm using Speedtest.net. My PC is wired in to a secondary Netgear R7500 router (the BT hub is only acting as a modem, no firewall and all traffic passed to my router. I'll try again later with my laptop wired straight into the BT Hub just to see. But I've have tests ranging from 8mb to 74mb, no 2 ever seem to be the same just now. Hopefully it will settle down a bit over the next few days!
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Try a wired test from http://speedtest.btwholesale.com and post the results in addition to modem stats as above.
 
Plugged my laptop into the Hub and got 72mb bang on. I completely was not thinking, but it is my Homeplugs that connect the router to the office that is limiting my connected.

For up to 80mb broadband what speed of homeplugs will I need? The 1000Mbps or 1200Mbps ones?
 
Is running some CAT5e out of the question? Your speed test results being all over the place with the current homeplugs suggests that there is heavy interference.
 
Kol said:
Hmmmm, at this price, how can my other half not want us to go Infinity 3? Currently on Infinity 1 in our flat but moving in a couple of weeks and I'd suggested we try Infinity 3.

The upfront cost is less than Infinity 2.

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Is infinity 3 only available in a couple of areas?

I swear I checked last night and only saw up to infinity 2.
 
When i moved from one side of town to the other i never imagined my fibre connection would be no more.

I booked the move to the new property and the engineer was due to come on the following Tuesday.

The property was a new build with 120 houses at the site, this is on an old allotments with other streets running parallel to this one.

We moved in and the day came and went, with no phone call or visit from the engineer. BT said the engineer wouldn't be coming when i called them as the line to the estate wasn't finished and ground ducting work needed to be completed.
I was less than amused but thought i would keep chasing and wait for the work to be completed (not like i had any other choice).

Now after numerous phone calls and broken promises we finally got a working phone line in November 2016, i went on and ordered Fibre, well i tried to order Fibre.
Openreach had installed a copper network and no Fibre in site, the cabinet is a standard green box no vents :(

So ever since i had to have Adsl 2+ and a line speed of 6.5 down and 1.0 up stream (old house had 76/20 through put)
I have contacted the local MPs for this area which is supposed to be the infrastructure champion for the UK, the builders/Landlords/Openreach/BT and either no one wants to take responsibility or throw the we didn't have to as it wasn't policy/law (came into effect in November 2016).

The streets at the side of ours can get Fibre and the new estate cant, there is a local school and care home which both have Fibre at the end of our street.

Is there a normal time frame to getting these cabinets upgraded by Openreach (2 years)?
The current line drops out as and when it wants and is less than stable, ive tried various routers etc to fix this issue, ISP is ZEN Internet.

So how much longer will i have to wait as average to other housing estates?

It annoys me that streets at the side of us have fibre, surely it would have been easier to pull fibre in to the estate, i mean even the BT engineers down the street couldn't understand it when i spoke to several of them
 
Developers aren't legally required to work with a communications provider to ensure access to modern infrastructure, therefore they don't bother to do it.

Sometimes the developers want to line their own pockets even more than they are already, so as well as selling a house on a leasehold and using an independent gas transporter, they will strike up some sort of exclusivity deal with a terrible fibre provider who then go bust.
 
Following my earlier post I need to cancel my existing deal before the offer ends and in time before we move to our own place, so mid next month. Can I only cancel over the phone? I just don't have the time to be doing that.
 
atomic7431 said:
When i moved from one side of town to the other i never imagined my fibre connection would be no more.

I booked the move to the new property and the engineer was due to come on the following Tuesday.

The property was a new build with 120 houses at the site, this is on an old allotments with other streets running parallel to this one.

We moved in and the day came and went, with no phone call or visit from the engineer. BT said the engineer wouldn't be coming when i called them as the line to the estate wasn't finished and ground ducting work needed to be completed.
I was less than amused but thought i would keep chasing and wait for the work to be completed (not like i had any other choice).

Now after numerous phone calls and broken promises we finally got a working phone line in November 2016, i went on and ordered Fibre, well i tried to order Fibre.
Openreach had installed a copper network and no Fibre in site, the cabinet is a standard green box no vents :(

So ever since i had to have Adsl 2+ and a line speed of 6.5 down and 1.0 up stream (old house had 76/20 through put)
I have contacted the local MPs for this area which is supposed to be the infrastructure champion for the UK, the builders/Landlords/Openreach/BT and either no one wants to take responsibility or throw the we didn't have to as it wasn't policy/law (came into effect in November 2016).

The streets at the side of ours can get Fibre and the new estate cant, there is a local school and care home which both have Fibre at the end of our street.

Is there a normal time frame to getting these cabinets upgraded by Openreach (2 years)?
The current line drops out as and when it wants and is less than stable, ive tried various routers etc to fix this issue, ISP is ZEN Internet.

So how much longer will i have to wait as average to other housing estates?

It annoys me that streets at the side of us have fibre, surely it would have been easier to pull fibre in to the estate, i mean even the BT engineers down the street couldn't understand it when i spoke to several of them
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I'm in a similar position. Had Virgin cable for years and I've now moved to a new build. Getting 1.6Mb down, god knows what my upload is. The bottom of my street (up to number 39, I'm 76) can order FTTP as of the past couple of weeks. Any number above that and all you get on the OpenReach website is the standard "we are exploring solutions".

Why don't the government pass legislation to require new developments to have fibre ran alongside the other utilities.
 
sparkymark75 said:
I'm in a similar position. Had Virgin cable for years and I've now moved to a new build. Getting 1.6Mb down, god knows what my upload is. The bottom of my street (up to number 39, I'm 76) can order FTTP as of the past couple of weeks. Any number above that and all you get on the OpenReach website is the standard "we are exploring solutions".

Why don't the government pass legislation to require new developments to have fibre ran alongside the other utilities.
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Its crazy, common sense would save all the companies so much time and monies if they only had to dig once and fit from the start.

Also why are BT Openreach not installing 1gb up/down the same as gigaclear are doing all over the uk currently.

Bizarre times we live in, just bizarre
 
Without searching through 800 pages. What would be a good replacement for the HH5? Without spending hundreds. Ideally sub £50. The wifi on it is utter dog sheesh.
 
Found this when checking a customers options for Fibre. First time I've seen G.Fast as an option and gives a good indication of the uplift possible. Strange that the upstream is lower though.

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