BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

PaulM · 26 Sep 2011 at 18:59

Is anyone on Infinity option 3 (they call it 'Faster Total Broadband' or 'Total Broadband with Fibre'), if so what speeds do you get?

They're enabling infinity in my office area within the next month but it only gets option 3 (est: 12.4mbit) which isn't much better than the stable 8mbit I get now. I've seen some people report estimates of < 15mbit and actually get > 30mbit though so I'm trying to decide how likely that is, and if it's worth trying.

Phemo · 26 Sep 2011 at 19:01

PaulM said:
Is anyone on Infinity option 3 (they call it 'Faster Total Broadband' or 'Total Broadband with Fibre'), if so what speeds do you get?

They're enabling infinity in my office area within the next month but it only gets option 3 (est: 12.4mbit) which isn't much better than the stable 8mbit I get now. I've seen some people report estimates of < 15mbit and actually get > 30mbit though so I'm trying to decide how likely that is, and if it's worth trying.

A colleague of mine is. He was given an estimate of around 10 meg but is actually getting 33 meg.

Locky · 26 Sep 2011 at 19:29

DirtyJester said:
Cheers
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BT est. speed upon signing up was 32mb down and 7mb up.

you are connection at 40Mbit down and 10Mbit up sync

your IP profile is 38717 which is the max.

The slow speeds is BT inability to cope with the speeds in your are like mine.

I struggle to get 10mbit after 6.

Rroff · 26 Sep 2011 at 19:31

alex24 said:
Steam down for anyone else here? Doesn't work on my home net (infinity), but works on my HSDPA.

Yup BT having intermittent issues with steam atm

DirtyJester · 26 Sep 2011 at 20:03

Locky said:
you are connection at 40Mbit down and 10Mbit up sync

your IP profile is 38717 which is the max.

The slow speeds is BT inability to cope with the speeds in your are like mine.

I struggle to get 10mbit after 6.

Cheers mate, in my case I can live with that due to such an improvement over what I had

Least I know nothing else is wrong. Can always hope they improve the other.

Speedtesting off and on and still giving 20+

Nickyyy · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:55

Im getting about 30-35 mbps, but my upload is about 1mbps, is there anyway to increase your upload?

biron_w · 26 Sep 2011 at 21:57

Rather annoyingly my local exchange has gone from march 2012 to dec 2012 for Infinity

DirtyJester · 26 Sep 2011 at 22:21

Nickyyy said:
Im getting about 30-35 mbps, but my upload is about 1mbps, is there anyway to increase your upload?

What package you on mate? Unlimited ?

Nickyyy · 26 Sep 2011 at 22:38

DirtyJester said:
What package you on mate? Unlimited ?

Don't think so man, think we're on the 40GB download limit, sounded good at the time but now I think we're going over.

On that note too, anyone know the costs for going over the monthly allowance?

Locky · 27 Sep 2011 at 00:23

mine seems to back up to speed will prob be back to poor speeds tomoz.

John24 · 27 Sep 2011 at 00:46

biron_w said:
Rather annoyingly my local exchange has gone from march 2012 to dec 2012 for Infinity

Those are just placeholder dates, it could go live before the date, but it could also not be ready and the date go back another quarter.

PaulM · 27 Sep 2011 at 00:51

Phemo said:
A colleague of mine is. He was given an estimate of around 10 meg but is actually getting 33 meg.

Thanks, I'll probably try it, most people I've asked seem to be getting much higher speeds than the estimates (for option 3).

Biffa · 27 Sep 2011 at 01:10

PaulM said:
Is anyone on Infinity option 3 (they call it 'Faster Total Broadband' or 'Total Broadband with Fibre'), if so what speeds do you get?

They're enabling infinity in my office area within the next month but it only gets option 3 (est: 12.4mbit) which isn't much better than the stable 8mbit I get now. I've seen some people report estimates of < 15mbit and actually get > 30mbit though so I'm trying to decide how likely that is, and if it's worth trying.

Been on Option 3 with Fibre since the day it came out. Said I'd only get 12Mb (better than the 6 I was getting with ADSL+)

Synchs at 24Mb down and 2Mb up, real life speeds are close to 21Mb down and 1.5Mb up. I'm 1Km from the box.

Jano · 27 Sep 2011 at 11:17

Will hopefully be swapping over to infinity shortly, BT site is showing it will be available from the end of the month. Slightly odd set up at home at the moment with -

Two landlines, one BT, one talk talk (parents, ugh). TalkTalk have "provided" Internet that isn't used on the talktalk line, despite us repeatedly stating we dont want or need it. Second landline is just used for internet, which was through Pipex, who have now been taken over by TalkTalk.

Plan is to cancel the second landline, cancel with TalkTalk on main landline, go back to BT and get BT Infinity internet. Currently the router is in my room, and there are 4 wired connections, and several other wireless connections. I have both an extension from the main landline and also the second landline into my room.

What we(I) will want is to have the BT router installed to my room, and am wondering if they will have an issue with this? If need be we could have the router downstairs, but the house is literally lead lined, so would need some way of being able to connect via cables to equipment upstairs, and also a wireless extender..

Also, is the home hub as bad as every other free router I have ever been given with a net package? If so, any recommendations for replacements?

tezabeza · 27 Sep 2011 at 16:10

Well our exchange has gone LIVE for FTTC just need OR to sort our street Cab out and WERE ON YEA BABY. BT Wholesale page say's BEFORE 31st December COME ON Openreach GET IT SORTED PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Spikey Willow · 27 Sep 2011 at 16:23

We've had ait a few months, got great speeds in general and no real connectivity problems, but my torrents do run very slowly

DirtyJester · 27 Sep 2011 at 19:46

Spikey Willow said:
We've had ait a few months, got great speeds in general and no real connectivity problems, but my torrents do run very slowly

When you say slow what sort of speed d/loading ?

Oh and anyone that had the extension cable used when getting the installation could you let me know what colour is the cable, I've a guy busting my head to find out as I forgot to ask the BT engineer, cheers.

Shelster · 28 Sep 2011 at 08:46

Happy day today. Noticed as i was cycling in to work, that there was some more 'dig up the road' scheme going on just around the corner from where i live. Had a slow down and wee look as i went past and what did i spy?????? A shiny new, small, green FTTC cabinet. Reckon distance form my flat to the cab is about 700 metres. but will check properly tomorrow with my good old GPS thingymwidget.

Bring on december.......

Spikey Willow · 28 Sep 2011 at 08:52

DirtyJester said:
When you say slow what sort of speed d/loading ?

When I first got it, I would routinely get 1-3Mbps download. I'm now lucky if I hit 100Kbps.

~Divine~Wind~ · 28 Sep 2011 at 09:08

Don't BT throttle Torrents on all connections?

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