BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.237.254] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.237.254: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.237.254: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.237.254: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.237.254: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 212.58.237.254:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 13ms

C:\Users\Alan>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.237.254]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 97e7fedc.skybroadband.com [151.231.254.220]
3 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms be403.pr2.enlba.isp.sky.com [2.120.9.106]
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae14.prc02.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.76]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms ae0.er02.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.105]
7 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms 132.185.255.148
8 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms 212.58.238.5
9 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 212.58.237.254

Trace Complete

Sky Superfast 80/20, no DNS changes
 
lltfdaniel said:
I am on fttc zen 80/20,

Ping where done when the connection is least saturated so no downloads nothing, i used to get 40-50ms on virgin media but now i get 10-13ms ish on zen and ping times is why i moved from virgin media to zen,

Pings on zen used to be something like 17-20ms at worst and 13-15ms at best but better than virgin media.

C:\Users\Dan>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.237.253] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.237.253: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=52
Reply from 212.58.237.253: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=52
Reply from 212.58.237.253: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=52
Reply from 212.58.237.253: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 212.58.237.253:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms

C:\Users\Dan>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.237.253]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms fritz.box [192.168.178.1]
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms losubs.subs.bng1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.17]
3 10 ms 12 ms 10 ms ae1-177.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.38]
4 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms rt-lonap-b.thdo.bbc.co.uk [5.57.80.90]
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 132.185.255.148
8 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 212.58.238.4
9 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms 212.58.237.253

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Dan>tracert www.google.co.uk

Tracing route to www.google.co.uk [172.217.169.35]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms fritz.box [192.168.178.1]
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms losubs.subs.bng1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.17]
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms ae1-177.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.38]
4 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 72.14.223.28
5 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 216.239.48.217
6 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 172.253.66.89
7 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms lhr48s08-in-f3.1e100.net [172.217.169.35]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Dan>

I am happy my ping times are like 10 ms now though.
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My ping also substantially dropped when I ditched Virgin for BT. 30-40ms to London down to 10 or less.
 
Lots of fibre going in around me. Virgin are in the area too so hoping for some competition on pricing. Downside is my cabinet looks like it can only do 330Mbps. Does that sound right?

I have a poor connection at the moment as we're a good 700m+ from the cabinet and according to multiple engineers the 1970's estates around here even have aluminium rather than copper. Some sort of cost saving back when copper was really expensive, apparently officially it's denied but they assured me they'd seen it and no-one wants to touch it as it can get brittle with age.
 
How are BT nowadays? I have not been with them since, maybe 2004?
I'm with SKY right now, but my price is jumping up to over £50 for broadband only in July.

My main issue is, I have a BT e-mail address that's costing me £7.50 a month to keep, as I don't have their broadband anymore.
Would be hard to abandon as it's 20 years old and tied into my entire existence.

So I could save a decent chunk jumping ship to BT and then not having to pay for premium mail. The 24 month contract scares me though.
 
I've been with BT since I moved into this house 5 years ago. I've had zero problems.

You might want to confirm though that signing up for broadband would remove that charge, they may not be able to tie a new broadband contract into a legacy email account. £7.50/month is nuts. I'm glad I never used ISP email addresses.
 
It is nuts, but nuts that I have grinned and taken, it was free, then £5, now £7.50 but the whole covid thing has made me look at whats going out, that really doesn't need too, But yep, if I join BT the £7.50 is removed as I can link it to a new account.
Just won't work with BT Business.
 
I'd still get yourself a new email address and gradually move things across - set your BT account to forward to your new account and then set rules to flag anything that is still going to BT, it will over the course of a year or so let you capture everything that was going to the old address.

Maybe get a domain and an Office 365 sub (Exchange Online is £3.60 a month) so you never have to change address again.
 
Just had an Openreach engineer show up unannounced. I paid for the survey 4 weeks ago yesterday, at which time they'd quoted a 5-6 week waiting time.

He said it should be fairly straightforward to run the cable overhead as that's how our telephone line currently terminates at the house. Nearest aggregation node is around 1/4 mile away. Now the wait begins for the quote!
 
Theophany said:
Just had an Openreach engineer show up unannounced. I paid for the survey 4 weeks ago yesterday, at which time they'd quoted a 5-6 week waiting time.

He said it should be fairly straightforward to run the cable overhead as that's how our telephone line currently terminates at the house. Nearest aggregation node is around 1/4 mile away. Now the wait begins for the quote!
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FTTP?
 
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