Soldato
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Bucks, near to Milton Keynes.
BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion
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Bucks, near to Milton Keynes.
I've been on the Full Fibre 900 package since the end of March and have been very impressed. You don't see much difference in speed with general browsing with say if you had a 100Mbps connection but downloading is just a whole new level of silly.
What I haven't been impressed with is the BT Smart Hub 2 they provide, every so often I would get random disconnects for up to 3 minutes at any point in the day. I looked through the logs of the Smart Hub to see lots of these 'PPP termination requests' and then the WAN connection would restart, happened a good few times while I was in a meeting/video call, very frustrating. I couldn't find much info about it other than the possibility of it being a faulty router or BT sending updates to the router. Either way I decided to replace the router with a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 and for a good week now the connection stability has been rock solid (touch wood).
I have everything wired in but with the BT Smart Hub I could only just break the 900Mbps barrier on a few occasions when doing any speed tests. I've found it difficult to max out the speed via the speed test website (same for other speed test sites), the web browser seems to be holding it back because since using the Ookla Speedtest Windows app I'm regularly hitting 930Mbps+. It is also tricky to find a decent speedtest server that can handle the gig speeds, been through a fair few but found one in London that pretty much maxes me out every time.
Here's a recent history of results I've done today and in the middle of last night (I was up late working), I get roughly similar speeds during the working weekday too:
Overall very pleased, we'll see what happens when more people get on the service in my area!
What I haven't been impressed with is the BT Smart Hub 2 they provide, every so often I would get random disconnects for up to 3 minutes at any point in the day. I looked through the logs of the Smart Hub to see lots of these 'PPP termination requests' and then the WAN connection would restart, happened a good few times while I was in a meeting/video call, very frustrating. I couldn't find much info about it other than the possibility of it being a faulty router or BT sending updates to the router. Either way I decided to replace the router with a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 and for a good week now the connection stability has been rock solid (touch wood).
I have everything wired in but with the BT Smart Hub I could only just break the 900Mbps barrier on a few occasions when doing any speed tests. I've found it difficult to max out the speed via the speed test website (same for other speed test sites), the web browser seems to be holding it back because since using the Ookla Speedtest Windows app I'm regularly hitting 930Mbps+. It is also tricky to find a decent speedtest server that can handle the gig speeds, been through a fair few but found one in London that pretty much maxes me out every time.
Here's a recent history of results I've done today and in the middle of last night (I was up late working), I get roughly similar speeds during the working weekday too:
Overall very pleased, we'll see what happens when more people get on the service in my area!
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I won't be using their SnartHub, as soon as the engineer has left I'll unplug it and either shove it a cupboard or give it to my parents to replace their HH5.
For a speedtest I'll fire up iperf on a cloud hosted VM which has a 10Gbps connection and see what I get.
For a speedtest I'll fire up iperf on a cloud hosted VM which has a 10Gbps connection and see what I get.
Says Full Fiber 900 is available for me today.
£59.99 though.
Full Fiber 100 is £39.99.
Little bit expensive I was hoping the cheapest FTTP was only a little more expensive than the fttc.
The cheek to charge £9.99 delivery, so the person installing it doesn't bring the equipment with them?
So honestly is it worth going for the 100 package at 150Mb Vs fttc at 70Mb, £39.99 Vs £27.
Do they remove your copper line while they are installing the optical.
£59.99 though.
Full Fiber 100 is £39.99.
Little bit expensive I was hoping the cheapest FTTP was only a little more expensive than the fttc.
The cheek to charge £9.99 delivery, so the person installing it doesn't bring the equipment with them?
So honestly is it worth going for the 100 package at 150Mb Vs fttc at 70Mb, £39.99 Vs £27.
Do they remove your copper line while they are installing the optical.
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So you'd have two lines to your house one serving nothing at all. I'd want rid of it, be a right eyesore if every house had 2 lines to it.
Our copper one is really baggy.
I am interested in this, I tested iperf on the local network but would definitely want to test the WAN side of the router I bought. I assume you'd setup a cloud hosted VM yourself?
There will be difference between FTTC and FTTP, I had to make sure I got a router that had a WAN port on it (not a VDSL port for the phone line). There is a separate ONT box on my wall where the fibre comes in from outside and then from there an ethernet cable to the WAN port on my router. Looks like the RT68U would be fine for FTTP.
Pretty simple for me to setup, entered in the standard BT router username with no password and away it went.
You might be able to ask whoever installs the FTTP to remove the copper line, otherwise it's a service you can purchase from Openreach
https://www.openreach.com/network-services/altering-our-network
When I had mine installed last September they used the copper line for the telephone.
That’s make sense, I’m surprised they did not do that with my install as they had to install a new copper line!
When they did my install they run a new cable for the telephone line (the termination box is installed on my neighbours property) mine was Originally run in what looked like internal cable, even the install engineer was surprised.
I had to have a new duct installed as the original was not large enough or had debris in.
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I've got a few VM's in place already - 2 as authorative DNS servers for my domains, 1 as my Unifi controller and another doing pretty much nothing but I've got $100 of Vultr credit so it costs me nothing.