BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

MissChief · 3 Jul 2014 at 20:08

NO provider gets first access to Fibre. It may be that the backhaul to Sky's network within the exchange hasn't been installed yet.

KIA · 4 Jul 2014 at 10:19

MissChief said:
NO provider gets first access to Fibre. It may be that the backhaul to Sky's network within the exchange hasn't been installed yet.

This.

KIA · 4 Jul 2014 at 19:24

BT Infinity peak-time latency to Valve europe is so poor. It's as low as 25ms during the day and 100ms+ during the evening.

Code:

traceroute 208.78.165.232

traceroute to 208.78.165.232 (208.78.165.232), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  router (192.168.1.254)  0.349 ms  0.388 ms  0.427 ms
 2  172.16.14.135 (172.16.14.135)  8.230 ms  8.308 ms  8.501 ms
3  * * *
 4  217.41.216.29 (217.41.216.29)  27.233 ms  27.249 ms  27.240 ms
 5  213.120.156.194 (213.120.156.194)  14.139 ms  14.316 ms  14.320 ms
 6  217.41.168.191 (217.41.168.191)  12.525 ms  8.341 ms  17.095 ms
 7  217.41.168.109 (217.41.168.109)  17.155 ms  17.099 ms  17.130 ms
 8  109.159.249.196 (109.159.249.196)  18.714 ms acc2-10GigE-0-2-0-4.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.249.225)  18.534 ms 109.159.249.234 (109.159.249.234)  16.632 ms
 9  109.159.249.131 (109.159.249.131)  17.394 ms core2-te0-7-0-15.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.143)  18.625 ms core-te0-7-0-6.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.147)  18.449 ms
10  peer1-xe0-0-1.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.193)  18.656 ms host213-121-193-165.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.165)  17.282 ms  17.258 ms
11  213.137.183.10 (213.137.183.10)  10.827 ms 213.137.183.20 (213.137.183.20)  10.263 ms 213.137.183.6 (213.137.183.6)  8.281 ms
12  t2c1-ge0-0-0.ie-dub2.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.53)  89.890 ms ixp1-xe-0-0-0-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.77)  92.521 ms ixp1-xe-0-0-1-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.43)  86.035 ms
13  166-49-151-134.eu.bt.net (166.49.151.134)  84.429 ms  88.850 ms  87.739 ms
14  * * *
15  65.126.30.62 (65.126.30.62)  84.698 ms  95.043 ms  92.957 ms
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * *^C

Westyfield2 · 4 Jul 2014 at 19:51

I've noticed this creep in on a couple of connections. Screenshot below is from a connection without any users on it. Slight blip at 3PM was me accidentally using that connection for a brief minute.

Congestion somewhere in the BT network during the evenings?

zipp0r · 5 Jul 2014 at 08:32

KIA said:

BT Infinity peak-time latency to Valve europe is so poor. It's as low as 25ms during the day and 100ms+ during the evening.

Code:

traceroute 208.78.165.232

traceroute to 208.78.165.232 (208.78.165.232), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  router (192.168.1.254)  0.349 ms  0.388 ms  0.427 ms
 2  172.16.14.135 (172.16.14.135)  8.230 ms  8.308 ms  8.501 ms
3  * * *
 4  217.41.216.29 (217.41.216.29)  27.233 ms  27.249 ms  27.240 ms
 5  213.120.156.194 (213.120.156.194)  14.139 ms  14.316 ms  14.320 ms
 6  217.41.168.191 (217.41.168.191)  12.525 ms  8.341 ms  17.095 ms
 7  217.41.168.109 (217.41.168.109)  17.155 ms  17.099 ms  17.130 ms
 8  109.159.249.196 (109.159.249.196)  18.714 ms acc2-10GigE-0-2-0-4.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.249.225)  18.534 ms 109.159.249.234 (109.159.249.234)  16.632 ms
 9  109.159.249.131 (109.159.249.131)  17.394 ms core2-te0-7-0-15.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.143)  18.625 ms core-te0-7-0-6.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.147)  18.449 ms
10  peer1-xe0-0-1.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.193)  18.656 ms host213-121-193-165.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.165)  17.282 ms  17.258 ms
11  213.137.183.10 (213.137.183.10)  10.827 ms 213.137.183.20 (213.137.183.20)  10.263 ms 213.137.183.6 (213.137.183.6)  8.281 ms
12  t2c1-ge0-0-0.ie-dub2.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.53)  89.890 ms ixp1-xe-0-0-0-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.77)  92.521 ms ixp1-xe-0-0-1-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net (166.49.208.43)  86.035 ms
13  166-49-151-134.eu.bt.net (166.49.151.134)  84.429 ms  88.850 ms  87.739 ms
14  * * *
15  65.126.30.62 (65.126.30.62)  84.698 ms  95.043 ms  92.957 ms
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * *^C

it looks like that is off to USA not europe! a 90-100ping is quite normal.

Tracing route to 208.78.165.232 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms BThomehub.home [192.168.1.254]
2 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 172.16.15.3
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.120.158.157
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 212.140.235.138
6 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 213.120.180.171
7 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 217.41.169.109
8 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms acc2-xe-4-2-0.sf.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.251.22
9]
9 23 ms 16 ms 18 ms core1-te-0-4-0-17.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.
251.57]
10 34 ms 23 ms 18 ms acc1-10GigE-0-5-0-5.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.1
59.254.106]
11 19 ms 17 ms 18 ms t2c3-xe-1-1-3-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.18
2]
12 85 ms 83 ms 83 ms ixp1-xe-1-0-0-0.us-nyc.eu.bt.net [166.49.208.41]

13 * * * Request timed out.
14 85 ms 83 ms 84 ms he-1-14-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.87.109]
15 95 ms 100 ms 95 ms he-4-13-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.97]
16 97 ms 97 ms 99 ms be-17-pe03.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.8
6.82.222]
17 96 ms 96 ms 96 ms as32590-1-c.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [173.16
7.56.170]
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 ^C

KIA · 5 Jul 2014 at 12:20

tribz · 6 Jul 2014 at 13:07

So I've noticed a new green powered cabinet next to my old exisiting cab and Openreach were feeding fibre through over the road the other day.

How soon do you think it would go live?

FMTopfan · 6 Jul 2014 at 17:14

tribz said:
So I've noticed a new green powered cabinet next to my old exisiting cab and Openreach were feeding fibre through over the road the other day.

How soon do you think it would go live?

Don't be sure that the relative distance means it will serve you.

One green fibre cabinet across the road from me, only 100ft, doesn't serve me. The one that's 1.1 miles away does. Last year I couldn't get anyone to confirm which one I should be watching for until the engineer came out that day to install and activate fibre.

I was checking with samknows and that confirmed I could get it but didn't point the right cabinet number. Find out with BT's checker, and FTTC Check.

tribz · 6 Jul 2014 at 17:16

I've checked the cabinet number already and its my one

NexusK · 10 Jul 2014 at 08:10

Is there any way to find out what's going on with a cabinet now that the old NGA email doesn't work?

The FTTC cab for my house has been in place for nigh on a year and a half now and every month or two there are roadworks scheduled for it and 2 other cabinets near it but the switch on never seems to arrive. Every other cabinet around them and even on this side of the whole town have been live since last year and it's getting frustrating.

#Chri5# · 10 Jul 2014 at 13:20

The cabinet for our office has been upgraded, so we ordered FTTC as a backup for our 100Mbps leased line. BT engineer ran this morning to say he would be switching us over. About an hour he rings back to report there isn't a link cable between the NGA cab and the regular cab.

Doh.

Speedy Pete · 10 Jul 2014 at 15:57

It's been a while since i posted here last but anyways since the road was closed the other week to install fibre optic lines i was just wondering how long will it be until i can order my BT infinity 76/20. Ive checked the various postcode and phone number fttc checkers and they just say FTTC is not available without even a date set.

Does anyone have a rough estimate on how long they will be? a new cab hasn't popped up yet by the way.

NexusK · 10 Jul 2014 at 16:09

I don't think there's any set in stone timescale Pete. If you look at my post above i've been waiting a year and a half since the FTTC cab was installed and still don't have it.

Speedy Pete · 10 Jul 2014 at 16:25

There's only one cab in my whole village i think of about 700 people im quite lucky they're doing anything at all to be honest. I just find it a bit strange that there's no recognition of the fibre being installed online at all.

This is from samknows about my place http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/SWFBZ

NexusK · 10 Jul 2014 at 17:47

Don't use SamKnows for it use the BT one as it updates quicker and the Samknows one tends to go off exchange rather than cabs https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/ just make sure you do it by phone number or address and not postcode.

Even it takes some time to update so don't be disheartened.

Speedy Pete · 10 Jul 2014 at 18:03

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately still no sign of it.

#Chri5# · 10 Jul 2014 at 18:04

Speedy Pete said:
There's only one cab in my whole village i think of about 700 people im quite lucky they're doing anything at all to be honest. I just find it a bit strange that there's no recognition of the fibre being installed online at all.

This is from samknows about my place http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/SWFBZ

Superfast Wales site says still in planning

Speedy Pete · 10 Jul 2014 at 18:15

Yeah i guess im gonna have to just sit and wait.

Frapple · 13 Jul 2014 at 10:33

No-One said:
All installed. Was a pain in the rear getting my Billion 7800n working with it. It must be the most awkward router in the world to configure.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3062335386

That's connected over wifi

Hi there,

Did you get your 7800n working with a HH5? How did you do it?

Can't find much info online & I'm missing the range of my 7800n!

BigChief · 14 Jul 2014 at 10:56

Another few months down the line and still no sign of fibre.

Not sure why, but when I put my phone number in to the DSL checker it does not recognise it. I'm with Sky so the line is provided by BT. Stick my address in and it comes back with 31st July, which was Nov 2013, then Jan 2014, then May and now July. Odds are good it will be shifted again, I haven't seen any Openreach at what I believe is my cab.