BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Caged · 26 Mar 2020 at 22:02

The poster was having a line problem that Openreach couldn't / weren't inclined to fix, so they were making use of this offer https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/we-will-fix-your-line/

The alternative being spending thousands of pounds on a leased line or FTTPoD.

@RSR - are you in an EE 5G area? They seem to have launched their home 5G service now https://shop.ee.co.uk/dongles/pay-monthly-mobile-broadband/huawei-5g-cpe-pro/details

RSR · 26 Mar 2020 at 23:16

Unfortunately I’m not anywhere near a 5G rollout, speaking about mobile networks I have been looking at those MikroTik Ltap LTE6 devices to replaced the B525.

Edit:

So I had a reply this morning "Line is testing ok, no fault found. Latency looks nice and low." and "The sync speed maybe right although at the low end of estimates. Different modem/router may yield different results. The tests show retransmissions are low indicating the line is relatively low on noise. It’s looks stable."

I'm confused as its currently 10Mb+ below the predicted range, as my low should be 63.8Mb and its currently on 49.1Mb

One further update from them about the DSL Check results:

"That may or may not be accurate. Engineers are only doing external work and emergency cases at the moment, so would be pointless raising the issue in current climate. Come back to us when it’s calmed down."

Granted the current climate is not good at the moment, but to me that comment comes across as a little rude. So not too impressed at the moment and I wouldn't recommend them.

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2020 at 12:31

Just ordered FTTC with Plusnet, been with Sky for an eternity but time to switch for a decent saving.

thewanted · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:13

no idea what said:
Just ordered FTTC with Plusnet, been with Sky for an eternity but time to switch for a decent saving.

You weren't tempted by Vodafone for £18.79/month?

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:25

thewanted said:
You weren't tempted by Vodafone for £18.79/month?

Where's that deal at? It's £22.95 on their site.

thewanted · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:25

no idea what said:
Where's that deal at? It's £22.95 on their site.

You can find it here: https://broadband.moneysavingexpert.com/

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:28

thewanted said:
You can find it here: https://broadband.moneysavingexpert.com/

Aaaaah. Plusnet works out at £18.83 effective montly cost with the £75 cashback

thewanted · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:32

no idea what said:
Aaaaah. Plusnet works out at £18.83 effective montly cost with the £75 cashback

That's not the "superfast" service, but if your sync speed isn't higher than 40 or 50mbit (I can't remember) then it won't matter.

Plusnet's 18 month contract is definitely more appealing than Vodafone's 24 though!

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2020 at 13:35

thewanted said:
That's not the "superfast" service, but if your sync speed isn't higher than 40 or 50mbit (I can't remember) then it won't matter.

Plusnet's 18 month contract is definitely more appealing than Vodafone's 24 though!

Ah yeah, I sync at like 32mb down do pointless going higher. A very good deal from Voda if you can get all the speed out of it for sure.

Avalon · 27 Mar 2020 at 17:27

no idea what said:
Aaaaah. Plusnet works out at £18.83 effective montly cost with the £75 cashback

I've not looked at the specific T&C's, but Vodafone appears to have £85 Quidco cash back and a £100 Amazon voucher making it potentially £15.28/m which is stupidly cheap for an 80/20 FTTC service.

marktruman · 28 Mar 2020 at 07:14

looks like the upload cap of 30/50 has been fixed, now getting 100

also, why is speedtest showing my nearest location than my actual location ( Manchester )

I also get better speeds when speedtesting sheffield than any of local servers haha

ChrisD. · 28 Mar 2020 at 11:41

thewanted said:
You weren't tempted by Vodafone for £18.79/month?

Their core network is terrible.

Rendog · 28 Mar 2020 at 11:59

Having recently been switched over to the 1Gig service I have found very few things that will max out the connection which is to be expected.

I don't know if this is an issue with the BT Smart Hub 2 (or the ONT box) but have found if I'm downloading at top speed for a prolonged period time the internet will just completely cut out and reset and take a few minutes to come back up.

I'm wondering if it worth replacing the Smart Hub 2 with something that is a bit more powerful? Any recommendations? Rough budget would be around £150.

Otherwise the difference when I was on 300/50 is not much with general web browsing but downloading is absolutely night and day.

nlel1975 · 28 Mar 2020 at 12:37

FerrariEnzo said:
but downloading is absolutely night and day.

Try downloading the 10 Gio file from here http://proof.ovh.net/files/ really tests your download speeds.

thewanted · 28 Mar 2020 at 12:55

ChrisD. said:
Their core network is terrible.

Do you have examples of this?

Rendog · 28 Mar 2020 at 13:01

nlel1975 said:
Try downloading the 10 Gbit file from here http://proof.ovh.net/files/ really tests your download speeds.

Only seem to max out at around 500Mbps, tried downloading two or three at once and won't go any faster.

Tried out their speedtest which appears to give a more positive result:

nlel1975 · 28 Mar 2020 at 13:04

*delete*

Rendog · 28 Mar 2020 at 13:07

nlel1975 said:
Trouble I have is that it’s only 1.25GB file and it downloads too quickly to get an accurate MB/s. Have to use steam or something like that. Ok if you’re on a slower connection.

I ended up trying the '10 Gio file' which actually seems closer to 10GB in size.

ChrisD. · 28 Mar 2020 at 13:13

thewanted said:
Do you have examples of this?

It’s been discussed on here plenty of times.

nlel1975 · 28 Mar 2020 at 13:15

FerrariEnzo said:
I ended up trying the '10 Gio file' which actually seems closer to 10GB in size.

Yeah my bad, I get this on the 10 Gio file after letting it fully download...

62.8 MB/sec is 502.4 mbit/s