BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Bandwidth costs money.

Providers that don't throttle P2P at peak times have peak time bandwidth limits.
Providers that do throttle P2P at peak times have unlimited usage.

I'd take the latter anyday because your only going to end up doing P2P off peak to avoid the peak time bandwidth limits, and on the unlimited package you don't have to look over your shoulder all the time trying to stay within a peak time usage cap.

I have Infinity, the only throttling is P2P at peak time. Throughput is high at all times and latency consistantly low at all times. I don't do much P2P but when I do I'm happy to do it off peak - midnight-4PM, that's plenty of time for me.

You cannot beat Infinity at the moment for what it provides. If you want to hammer P2P get a VPN, seedbox or pay thousands a month for a leased line.

It's hard to see how another provider could improve on Infinity, if anyone manages it though I'll be singing their praises too.

My latency at all times, even when the connection is in use.

Code: 
tracert bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.254
  2     5 ms     5 ms     5 ms  213.120.155.227
  3     6 ms     6 ms     7 ms  213.120.155.158
  4     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  213.120.161.18
  5     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  217.32.26.46
  6     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  217.32.26.182
  7     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  acc2-10GigE-0-7-0-4.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.198]
  8    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  core2-te0-2-5-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.130]
  9    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  peer2-xe9-1-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.114]
 10    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  194.74.65.42
 11    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  212.58.238.153
 12    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  virtual-vip-231.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
 
Engineer should be here this morning between 8 and 10 - although given the absolutely shocking way BT gave handled this (no net for over a week now,broken assurances and downright lies) I'm not holding my breath until it's all up and running .......
 
I dunno if i'd ever trust BT with my custom again. I find them to be completely incompetant, charging people for things they don't even have, not having a clue when it comes to fault finding etc.
Just yesterday I got a call from BT trying to get me back as a customer telling me they would be cheaper than sky for phone and internet. I told them since they didn't do LLU on my exchange and Sky did that I didn't want to drop from 11-12mb back to 8. The guy then checked my exchange and told me it was impossible for me to get those speeds as my line only supports a max of 8mb. I just laughed at him and told him that's exactly why i'd never go back to bt, they just don't have a clue.
Infinity does look like a nice product, but I just couldn't bring myself to be with BT, I just know at some point something will go wrong and i'll call them and they will blame my antivirus software or firewall.
 
~TB~ said:
Well the engineer is here! :D
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Cheers mate

Well Engineer was here for about an hour and well all I can say is:

speed.io.png


Was quoted 27.7 DL and 5.8 UL - very happy bunny !
 
Cheers :)

No, the master socket in the lounge had to be disabled (which is fine, its not used) to allow the socket in the study to become the master - so no nasty cabled :D
 
~TB~ said:
Cheers :)

No, the master socket in the lounge had to be disabled (which is fine, its not used) to allow the socket in the study to become the master - so no nasty cabled :D
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Double excellent news :D My original master socket in hallway was changed to upstairs in the computer room so I'm hoping they will use it rather then be forced to using WiFi until I run a cable.
 
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^ Ran BT Speedtest, but was faffing on with setting up Vision and trying out iplayer etc, but overall im over the moon :D
 
Looking at Google maps (and as the Engi told me where "my" cab was) id say around 400- 450M in a direct a route as possible using footpaths etc
 
Homehub 3 at the moment, but from a quick test on my iphone im getting a strong wireless signal throughout the house (had to use an additional router as a repeater / WAP when I had Sky) - so no plans as yet, no :)
 
~TB~ said:
Looking at Google maps (and as the Engi told me where "my" cab was) id say around 400- 450M in a direct a route as possible using footpaths etc
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Hmm for that length most people get full sync, your not far off though. If you wanted a more accurate distance estimate there is a google maps distance generator here, I don't think it takes hills into account but it should be more accurate than judging by eye. Cheers.
 
Lol well not s bad guess - mine was using footpaths between the two locations - a direct line using that link gives 397.134m :P

Not sure of the BT route but 400-500m I would guess isn't a million miles away ;)
 
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