BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Dec 2011 at 10:55

TheOtherOption said:
He just left and I'm holding down pretty much maximum speeds 37.5/8 ... couldn't be happier!

Makes me want to order.

Nathan · 6 Dec 2011 at 11:06

is FTTH available on BT yet? Appears my exchange is having FTTP enabled

TheOtherOption · 6 Dec 2011 at 11:11

Engineer said that my exchange (Perivale in west London) had only just enabled it so he's pretty busy - doing 5 or so installs today and was around the same area yesterday!

realscot · 6 Dec 2011 at 13:26

I just talked to a local engineer today who was laying fibre optic cables. He's saying the basic infastucture for my town is already in, but they aren't expecting it to go live till at least march next year. He was laying a cable to a new vodafone mast that got put up next to my work.

Yerman · 6 Dec 2011 at 14:04

Nathan said:
is FTTH available on BT yet? Appears my exchange is having FTTP enabled

Yes it's available now in limited areas for £35 + line rental, you get 100Mb download and 15Mb upload.

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=33828

SeeKified · 6 Dec 2011 at 14:13

Yerman said:
Yes it's available now in limited areas for £35 + line rental, you get 100Mb download and 15Mb upload.

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=33828

I'm guessing they'll increase those speeds when FTTC 80/20 hits. It'd be rendered a bit obsolete otherwise.

KIA · 6 Dec 2011 at 14:40

SeeKified said:
I'm guessing they'll increase those speeds when FTTC 80/20 hits. It'd be rendered a bit obsolete otherwise.

300Mb/s is planned.

SeeKified · 6 Dec 2011 at 15:24

KIA said:
300Mb/s is planned.

Ah good, then perhaps the UK will be on par with the rest of Europe in a couple of years.

Radiation · 6 Dec 2011 at 15:47

How good is infinity for hosting game servers?

KIA · 6 Dec 2011 at 18:20

Radiation said:
How good is infinity for hosting game servers?

Fine as long as the traffic is treated as high priority.

Mercutio · 6 Dec 2011 at 20:28

anyon said:
4pm - midnight severely throttled i.e. unusable. Otherwise downloads seem unthrottled. Uploads are always capped (150KB/s ??).

Never experienced throttling for SSL Usenet and never for normal downloads.

Just to check, if torrents ARE running they are basically choked to death, the line otherwise works fine? (i.e if you had big wow updates during the day

it would just drop to bugger all for 16:00-23:59 but the rest of the line would work fine? They don't "punish" you for using it at "bad" hours?) If so that's actually kinda perfect.

Especially as the green cabinet is practically next to my house

cp88 · 6 Dec 2011 at 20:55

I've not had torrents throttled for a fair few weeks now, even at peak times.

@Merctio - You can download as much as you want at anytime (apart from torrents sometimes)

Klo · 6 Dec 2011 at 21:13

And I can't even get ADSL 2 where I live

Rofflay · 6 Dec 2011 at 21:34

Originally Posted by Radiation
How good is infinity for hosting game servers?

KIA said:
Fine as long as the traffic is treated as high priority.

meaning what ? do u mean as long as its not hosting via p2p? and what is high priority?
i dont think u can get better than hosting on infinity with 10mb upload TBH.

SeeKified · 7 Dec 2011 at 09:06

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a static IP with consumer Infinity? Can't remote connect to my NAS this morning 'cause the IP's changed.

Or would DDNS be a good idea?

shine · 7 Dec 2011 at 09:28

DDNS will let you keep connecting when your IP changes.

Leeroy123 · 7 Dec 2011 at 12:15

Ok guys just had my broadband installed heres my before and after

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1618082283.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1634841730.png

to say im happy is an understatment, Just downloaded the 3.9gb bf3 update in 9 minutes omg lol

TheOtherOption · 7 Dec 2011 at 12:34

Just had some TP link 200mbps powerline adaptors arrive and am up and running without the need for a lan cable across the house

full speeds available - very nice!

SeeKified · 7 Dec 2011 at 12:55

TheOtherOption said:
Just had some TP link 200mbps powerline adaptors arrive and am up and running without the need for a lan cable across the house full speeds available - very nice!

I'd totally do that if it wasn't for the fact that there's not enough sockets in my flat and everything's hanging off 4-6 socket extenders. I hear that can kill the performance?

Tomsk · 7 Dec 2011 at 13:44

SeeKified said:
I'd totally do that if it wasn't for the fact that there's not enough sockets in my flat and everything's hanging off 4-6 socket extenders. I hear that can kill the performance?

Surge protected multi-sockets kill the performance.

With plain multi-sockets there will probably be some reduced speed.
However, the speed is more likely to be affected by other noise in the mains from items such as boilers and fridges.

My 85Mbps units can vary between <20 to >35 depending on what else is on around the house.