BT Infinity, How does it work?

bt infinity isnt everywhere yet , my area a lot is done but a lot isnt yet. Should all be available soon, bt infinity is well worth waiting for though mate ill tell you that, i love it.
 
FTTP is Fibre To The Premises, basically fibre to your house. So you will have a fibre connection all the way along the network. This currently offers speeds of 100Mb and will likely grow in the future.

FTTC is Fibre To The Cabinet. So the Fibre is laid between the exchange and the cabinet that your phone line goes to. The part from the cabinet to your house remains copper based. Offers slower speeds than FTTC due to the copper, but faster than ADSL as you are generally closer to the cabinet than the exchange and eliminate a lot of copper from the network link. Currently offers speeds up to 40Mb and soon up to 80Mb.
 
AMMUT said:
Yeah, if that's what you got working. Although it isn't too exact.

For example, my parents can't get infinity, but the spreadsheet says that 100% of the lines in their postcode should get it with a 9.87 uplift. The cabinet is upgraded as people down the road from them can get it but they can't.
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100% of people means how many people are connected to the cab, not that 100% of people can have it today.

What no one seems to have mentioned clearly in this thread is,

an exchange gets fibre enabled but for people to actually get connected the cab they are connected to(green box end of road or a nearish road) gets a new cab placed near it(most of the time afaik, sometimes new big cab replaces?) with Fibre connected between it and the exchange, only when that new cab is installed, and turned on, then enabled can people connected to that cab get Infinity.

In my case my exchange became fibre enabled and was "accepting orders" 18 odd months ago or something stupid, which basically means at some point 18 months ago they had one cab somewhere in the area connected.

My cab was listed as 100%, decent uplift(current average speed x uplift is the average the area should achieve, so if you get 3mb now and a 8 uplift you should get 24mb), but my cab still wasn't actually done yet. I got it installed last week, exchange being enabled and other people in the area being able to order unfortunately aren't even slightly connected to you getting it.

Its up to the order and time taken for BT to do your specific cab.

Lot of cab's to install and get working unfortunately, lot of network improvements needed and lots of people to connect to infinity, its going to take time unfortunately :(

You do hear about people now and then who call up and BT realise their cab is done but the system hasn't recognised it properly. The online checkers dates are bogus, it's just a placeholder 99% of the time, dec 31st, to march 31st, then June 31st, etc, etc. The date moves 3 months back within 1-2 weeks of the date. if the date changes to something significantly different, like April 13th or something, its likely to be a real date.

Realistically best chance of getting infinity asap is, register online(and hope BT are basing their choice of cab upgrades on demand), and check the bt site's speed checker every week till it says you can order.

If it is FTTP, they are likely doing it in a specific order, because you don't want to randomly dig up the road for everyone who orders, so it will be based on luck more than anything else.
 
drunkenmaster said:
100% of people means how many people are connected to the cab, not that 100% of people can have it today.

What no one seems to have mentioned clearly in this thread is,

an exchange gets fibre enabled but for people to actually get connected the cab they are connected to(green box end of road or a nearish road) gets a new cab placed near it(most of the time afaik, sometimes new big cab replaces?) with Fibre connected between it and the exchange, only when that new cab is installed, and turned on, then enabled can people connected to that cab get Infinity.

In my case my exchange became fibre enabled and was "accepting orders" 18 odd months ago or something stupid, which basically means at some point 18 months ago they had one cab somewhere in the area connected.

My cab was listed as 100%, decent uplift(current average speed x uplift is the average the area should achieve, so if you get 3mb now and a 8 uplift you should get 24mb), but my cab still wasn't actually done yet. I got it installed last week, exchange being enabled and other people in the area being able to order unfortunately aren't even slightly connected to you getting it.

Its up to the order and time taken for BT to do your specific cab.

Lot of cab's to install and get working unfortunately, lot of network improvements needed and lots of people to connect to infinity, its going to take time unfortunately :(

You do hear about people now and then who call up and BT realise their cab is done but the system hasn't recognised it properly. The online checkers dates are bogus, it's just a placeholder 99% of the time, dec 31st, to march 31st, then June 31st, etc, etc. The date moves 3 months back within 1-2 weeks of the date. if the date changes to something significantly different, like April 13th or something, its likely to be a real date.

Realistically best chance of getting infinity asap is, register online(and hope BT are basing their choice of cab upgrades on demand), and check the bt site's speed checker every week till it says you can order.

If it is FTTP, they are likely doing it in a specific order, because you don't want to randomly dig up the road for everyone who orders, so it will be based on luck more than anything else.
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this is pretty much what I needed to know, was it just the exchange or is there something else that needs doing. thanks for that, just hope mine isn't one of the last to get done :(
 
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