BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

player said:
I notice that to get bt infinity you need to have a phoneline with bt as well? Is this a technical reason? Does your fibre branch off from the telephone line outside your property?
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The technology being discussed here is FTTC - fibre to the cabinet. The fibre runs to the green cabinet which serves your locality, this cabinet houses a VDSL2 DSLAM which then serves broadband via your normal telephone line via VDSL2. No actual fibre comes into your home, you just have a DSL modem and DSL splitter the same as you had in the ADSL days :)
 
You are connected to Prestwick 12.
We are continuing to build our network to cover many more areas all the time. We believe this is the fastest rollout of this type anywhere in the world.
Rest assured we are doing everything we can to deliver service as soon as we can.
We appreciate that this is frustrating, however, we are bringing fibre into your area so please keep an eye on our website from the end of March 2016 for an update. It’s where we publish the very latest fibre coverage information and we update it weekly. This is when we would estimate that you should be able to place your order, all being well.
I hope this can help you understand that we have a real commitment to delivering superfast broadband to the people and businesses of Britain.
I am sorry that we have not yet provided you with this service.
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oh dear me - My MP better get something sorted fast as I'll NOT be happy if that is the case!! March 2016 is just ridiculous when it was announced as March 2014 by 2 local MP's!
 
booyaka said:
oh dear me - My MP better get something sorted fast as I'll NOT be happy if that is the case!! March 2016 is just ridiculous when it was announced as March 2014 by 2 local MP's!
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Oh dear me indeed. Throw it at Bill. See if he can shed some light on it for you. :)
 
The F5D8633 appears to be a ADSL router i.e. it has an internal ADSL modem and plugs directly into the phone socket.

Unless it has a EWAN mode (using one on the LAN ports as an Ethernet WAN port) it won't work at all.

Your ISP will no doubt provide you with a VDSL modem and/or router that'll work with the 'fibre' connection. Almost all of them are going to be better than that Belkin.
 
player said:
Ah ok Jez thanks, does this involve a white box being attached externally to your property? Much like Virign Media?
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Nothing changes at your house at all, you just plug the VDSL modem/router into the phone socket the same as you did with good old fashioned ADSL :)

Some ISP's do still use "engineer" installs, in these cases all the "engineer" will do is possibly change the master phone socket for a newer type essentially, then plug the DSL modem in for you and test it - all internal.
 
I'm waiting for my Superfast broadband here, the Cabinets in the area all have the FTTC cabs next to them now and have been this way for months.

Cabinet 1 of 3 went live a few weeks back, upon asking when my cabinet was due to go live I was told Autumn as there's still miles of Cable to lay.

I'm told by the project manager that all the new cabinets are fed via the Head End Exchange, and not our Local exchange like I'd previously thought. Is this true? As I see people discussing their local exchanges going live quite often.
 
I just got plusnet unlimited fibre and get roughly 73mb down. However when I'm using usenet I'm lucky to got 20mb, with no other traffic on the network. It was my understanding that Plusnet is 'truly' unlimited. So what's going on? SSL on port 443.
 
yer_averagejoe said:
I just got plusnet unlimited fibre and get roughly 73mb down. However when I'm using usenet I'm lucky to got 20mb, with no other traffic on the network. It was my understanding that Plusnet is 'truly' unlimited. So what's going on? SSL on port 443.
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It could be plain old congestion on the peering link to whoever you use, try using additional threads/connections to the usenet server which will very quickly show you whether this is the case or not...:)
 
Jez said:
It could be plain old congestion on the peering link to whoever you use, try using additional threads/connections to the usenet server which will very quickly show you whether this is the case or not...:)
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yeah I'll have a play around with it tonight. I run 20 connections as standard. need to try different ports and run it wired. I've not yet replaced the router they sent me.
 
anyone using an Asus AC66U with the FTTC modem. I don't have FTTC yet but am using this router with my ISP router in bridge mode. It generally works fine but I find when I use DL managers ( flashget, downthemall, IDM ) the flood of data eventually knocks the router out for a second then I have to pause the DL and start again. I get occasional error messages as well. Thinking of putting Merlin firmware on it to see if improves stability

But basically want to know whether I'll need to look at another router when ( please god in the next 6 months after 2 push backs ) FTTC finally comes my way
 
bremen1874 said:
The F5D8633 appears to be a ADSL router i.e. it has an internal ADSL modem and plugs directly into the phone socket.

Unless it has a EWAN mode (using one on the LAN ports as an Ethernet WAN port) it won't work at all.

Your ISP will no doubt provide you with a VDSL modem and/or router that'll work with the 'fibre' connection. Almost all of them are going to be better than that Belkin.
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Cool, thanks.
 
I want to replace my home hub 5. Ideally something cheap which I'm assuming will be better than the home hub anyways. I don't have a separate modem.

Which one would I need? Cable section? ADSL section? Do any work ok?
 
Yep, they supply a Huawei HG635, it's probably the best isp supplied router around and is actually very good in its own right.
 
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