BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

ChrisD. · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:09

Straight into the phone socket.

Nikumba · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:23

ChrisD. said:
Straight into the phone socket.

Dang it, means will need to pull the kallax out to do all that then

ChrisD. · 10 Oct 2017 at 15:28

There may be a way to use the modem still, or get yourself a pfsense box and Ubiquiti AP.

V_R · 10 Oct 2017 at 16:45

I'm very tempted to move back to Plusnet, I'm about to come to the end of my contract with Zen (I left PN for them), and while Zen are good, I can't see how they can justify the price.

Nikumba · 10 Oct 2017 at 16:52

ChrisD. said:
There may be a way to use the modem still, or get yourself a pfsense box and Ubiquiti AP.

Got a pfsense box, I do need to get me a Ubiquity to get wifi to the bottom of the garden

Other than phones everything else is cabled

Datamonkey · 10 Oct 2017 at 17:00

Just a heads up, it seems BT are doing deals for existing customers these days, they didnt last year when i looked into it.

I was on Infinity 3, now upgraded to Infinity 4 including evening/weekend calling plan/line rental for £60 for the next 24 months.

Happy with that

sparkymark75 · 10 Oct 2017 at 20:10

MissChief said:
What tens to happen is the site gets updated last of all, once everyone has been done first.

Thanks. I'm guessing the answer to this is "how long is a piece of string" but, after the fibre's been laid, how long is it usually until you can place an order?

MooMoo444 · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:28

Just got the BT infinity 1 boost. Went from the 52 to the 76 for free. It's pretty nice.

I don't understand what happens at contract renewal though.. Do I have to pay more to keep it, or will it downgrade to 52 again? More speed is nice but I don't need it enough to warrant more cost.

Daaaavvveee · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:30

MooMoo444 said:
Just got the BT infinity 1 boost. Went from the 52 to the 76 for free. It's pretty nice.

I don't understand what happens at contract renewal though.. Do I have to pay more to keep it, or will it downgrade to 52 again? More speed is nice but I don't need it enough to warrant more cost.

It would make sense for them to change the base package to be "Up to 76" instead of when it was 52.

MooMoo444 · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:40

Kinda leaves Infinity2 customers in an awkward spot too. Paying more for same product.

Daaaavvveee · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:46

MooMoo444 said:
Kinda leaves Infinity2 customers in an awkward spot too. Paying more for same product.

Maybe they will look to try squeezing out some more speed for the Infinity 2 customers...

ChrisD. · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:46

Is there a new upload speed then for 52 customers or are they still on 10?

MooMoo444 · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:48

ChrisD. said:
Is there a new upload speed then for 52 customers or are they still on 10?

That went up to 20 for me.

ChrisD. · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:53

I'd be well annoyed if I were an existing customer on the 80/20 product and paying more!

Gammawolf · 11 Oct 2017 at 12:07

Yeah.. seems a bit of a cop out to double bt cloud storage, i bet they could only do that because double 0% usage is still 0. I just hope i see some more goods for my money, in a few months the contract will end so i'll tune it down then

DragonQ · 11 Oct 2017 at 13:41

MooMoo444 said:
Kinda leaves Infinity2 customers in an awkward spot too. Paying more for same product.

Daaaavvveee said:
Maybe they will look to try squeezing out some more speed for the Infinity 2 customers...

Infinity 2 will probably be replaced with a 160/30 Mb/s package using G.fast (or FTTP). Infinity 3 will then go to 330/50 Mb/s using G.fast (or FTTP). Both of these packages will be available to ISPs from Openreach soon. I am not sure if Infinity 4 (currently 300/30 Mb/s) will see a speed boost but if it does it'll remain FTTP only.

Daaaavvveee · 11 Oct 2017 at 13:51

DragonQ said:
Infinity 2 will probably be replaced with a 160/30 Mb/s package using G.fast (or FTTP). Infinity 3 will then go to 330/50 Mb/s using G.fast (or FTTP). Both of these packages will be available to ISPs from Openreach soon. I am not sure if Infinity 4 (currently 300/30 Mb/s) will see a speed boost but if it does it'll remain FTTP only.

I am on 4 with FTTP, hopefully they will increase my speeds, as I have a deal on my account currently, £46.99 for Infinity 4 + line rental for 24 months... (12 month minimum term contract on my infinity 4)

ChrisD. · 11 Oct 2017 at 14:34

DragonQ said:
I am not sure if Infinity 4 (currently 300/30 Mb/s) will see a speed boost but if it does it'll remain FTTP only.

It's going 1Gbit.

Telecaster · 11 Oct 2017 at 15:33

My deal as just ended and gone up from £11 to £53 so binning them off and gone for Talk Talk.

Daaaavvveee · 11 Oct 2017 at 15:51

ChrisD. said:
It's going 1Gbit.

Got a source for this?