BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

jamjar · 28 Apr 2012 at 10:23

Spenty said:
HH3 is fine.

yeah i have a mate who runs the HH3 on Infinity and he has no problems on wireless etc

I will stick with the HH3 when i get Fibre installed soon ,but i was on a famous Auction site looking around and saw an Asus RT-U56N Router for sale for £65 brand new 3 weeks old , some guy bought it and then went with Virgin Media ,so didn,t want it , i won it and its totally awesome ! have it running with Be isp and it looks like a shop bought item

xtremedetailz · 28 Apr 2012 at 11:54

having problems with mine guys... I was running fine with the 40/10 profile and was getting 36/6.5mb and since changing over to the 80/20 profile after 2 weeks (and my 10 days stabilization) my line is now at 35/6mb.

I keep ringing the numbers but can only seem to get through to india and they are shocking and never seem to get anything done.

I have said put me through to another department but they say they cant.

Really need help as im at my wits end with them.

What is worse is i can hardly understand them.

cp88 · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:18

KIA said:
20Mb/s saturated 24/7 can produce almost 6.5TB of ratio buffer per month.

Yeah, not too bad for the casual user I suppose.

A lot safer to have a seedbox hosted elsewhere, not keen on DMCA letters/emails, also the speed is a bit better

KIA said:
20 hops is a bit of an exaggeration.

Definitely not.

dfarrall · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:21

Phone the usual number and go through the question about your order and keep going, you'll end up with an English person. ( or atleast I have)

Nightglow · 28 Apr 2012 at 12:28

The number I use is 0800 1114567, I seem to get more English operators on that number.

KIA · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:18

cp88 said:
Yeah, not too bad for the casual user I suppose.

A lot safer to have a seedbox hosted elsewhere, not keen on DMCA letters/emails, also the speed is a bit better

I doubt you download more than 6.5TB per month. The cost of storage would be astronomical. I survive at the "top" trackers with only 10Mb/s upstream and I still have a massive buffer. A seedbox is good for uploaders and users with slow home connections. I've never received a DMCA letter because I don't use public trackers/wide-open private trackers.

cp88 said:
Definitely not.

Your provider/ISP sucks.

Code:

traceroute to 83.149.64.15 (83.149.64.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254)  0.298 ms  0.306 ms  0.344 ms
 2  no-dns-yet-62-3-84-23.zen.co.uk (62.3.84.23)  9.408 ms  9.419 ms  9.561 ms
 3  ge-2-1-0-125.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.229)  9.817 ms  9.825 ms  10.027 ms
 4  ten4-0.lon.leaseweb.net (195.66.225.56)  20.281 ms  19.775 ms  18.790 ms
 5  ten5-4.sbp-sr2.leaseweb.net (85.17.100.202)  17.524 ms  18.344 ms  18.733 ms
 6  sniff-sbp.leaseweb.net (83.149.64.15)  18.271 ms  18.185 ms  22.127 ms

cp88 · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:18

Your doing a tracert route to a server? I don't see your point.

Try doing it to a residential connection in Europe, the number of hops will greatly increase.

But yeah BT isn't great, my location is probably more to blame though

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 217.32.142.5
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 217.32.142.46
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.120.163.86
5 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 217.32.27.54
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 217.32.27.182
7 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms core2-gig7-0-0.manchester.ukcore.bt.net [109.159
.250.218]
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms core1-te0-12-0-4.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.2
50.133]
9 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms peer1-xe9-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.2
54.120]
10 21 ms 23 ms 23 ms ten4-0.lon.leaseweb.net [195.66.225.56]
11 21 ms 24 ms 21 ms ten5-4.sbp-sr2.leaseweb.net [85.17.100.202]
12 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms sniff-sbp.leaseweb.net [83.149.64.15]

I don't actually download anything (nothing is saved), I use WebDAV so everything is pretty much streamed to either a WDTV or VLC. Server is shared between a fair few people, has 2x3TB drives.

What trackers do you use? I'm after a SCC invite!

jamjar · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:38

Nightglow said:
The number I use is 0800 1114567, I seem to get more English operators on that number.

yes that is run by English people ..my brother who works for B.T just read your post and told me to tell you ha!

)

robgti · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:46

Well it appears my openreach modem has died on me.

Lost broadband last night but the power and dsl lights on the openreach box were still on.

Tried to reset it and it would not reset so unplugged it and when I plugged it back in there was no power light on.

Left it for a while and managed to get it to turn back on but no dsl light and no broadband.

Phoned BT up at midnight and they have arranged for an engineer to come on Monday to fix it.

xtremedetailz · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:52

jamjar said:
yes that is run by English people ..my brother who works for B.T just read your post and told me to tell you ha! )

Just rang it and got through to india for the 3rd time today.

Ask him has he got a direct number

DirtyJester · 28 Apr 2012 at 13:59

jamjar said:
I have a friend who is on B.T Infinity and he says thet they haven,t throttled his p2p at all as yet and its been 4 weeks ! i think they only reduce the speed if your netwoek is busy or in a highly congested area with loads on the cabinet my brother woked for B.T and told me that is the policy of the B.T network its monitored at a HQ and throttled as and when needed

jamjar said:
yes that is run by English people ..my brother who works for B.T just read your post and told me to tell you ha! )

xtremedetailz said:
Just rang it and got through to india for the 3rd time today.

Ask him has he got a direct number

..you might have a long wait :rolleyes:

[TW]Fox · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:22

Why does the HH3 only have a single Gigabit Ethernet port? What possible use is ONE Gigabit port?

cp88 · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:32

It could be nice for a NAS in a family home.

Tomsk · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:33

jamjar said:
From what i read its not great on Wireless conection and a lot of people have to reboot it everytime they switch on ,if you search on here you will find more threads about it

I like mine. It works.

It's better than the Drayteks I had which were great for wired but terrible for wireless. They had worse range than my BeBox and often refused to allow previously connected wifi devices to reconnect.

Also with the HH3 I get BTopenzone/BTFON wifi (almost) anywhere I travel in the UK.

{SAS}TB · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:35

The Gigabit port it supposed to be for BT Vision as well

cp88 · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:37

BTFON is great, even if you don't use the HH3 as long as your account is active it will work.

Why does vision need a gig port?

{SAS}TB · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:43

cp88 said:
Why does vision need a gig port?

They reccomend you use it if using the HomePlugs for Vision (i.e. if HH3 and Vision are in a different room)

shine · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:43

[TW]Fox;21786203 said:
What is so bad about the Homehub that I'd want to spend £80 on that?

In my short experience of the HH the wireless performance is poor. In addition, I needed more than one gigabit port. However, I already had a replacement router with everything I needed.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:43

Tomsk said:
Also with the HH3 I get BTopenzone/BTFON wifi (almost) anywhere I travel in the UK.

BTFON/WiFi is using peoples HH3 connections. This is how they create global hotspots. If you opt in and you use a HH3 it turns the feature on and your connection becomes a hotspot.

Tomsk · 28 Apr 2012 at 16:12

mrbell1984 said:
BTFON/WiFi is using peoples HH3 connections. This is how they create global hotspots. If you opt in and you use a HH3 it turns the feature on and your connection becomes a hotspot.

I don't see that as a problem in a residential housing estate. I've not seen anyone camping out on the pavement using my wifi. Also BTFON restricts FON users to 512Kbit. I think I can spare that from my 60Mbit connection.

If I lived next to a public congregational area, like a coffee shop, then I would take steps to restrict my wifi and disable my hotspot.