BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

VincentHanna · 27 Jul 2020 at 16:11

2 Openreach engineers were here for nearly 3 hours. Lots of external work but they were also just gassing a lot.

My ASUS Router is getting
920.9 Mbps download
109.9 Mbps upload
2ms latency.

Glorious.

Sparx · 27 Jul 2020 at 16:40

VincentHanna said:
2 Openreach engineers were here for nearly 3 hours. Lots of external work but they were also just gassing a lot.

My ASUS Router is getting
920.9 Mbps download
109.9 Mbps upload
2ms latency.

Glorious.

Lucky you

Enjoy mate!

N0ddie · 28 Jul 2020 at 00:06

So my Wifi speeds have never been that great in the spare/play room so had a dude out to run some ethernet cables from the router (downstairs) and install some ethernet points upstairs.

We are finally able to hit those juicy speeds we can get:

acharris · 28 Jul 2020 at 14:51

After a long wait since my order 11th June (had to wait for outside work to be completed, which took a bit of work with phone calls to get completed) finally on Thursday BT are coming to install my full fibre 900 service. So happy and can't wait as been on copper broadband for the last 4 weeks as they switched me from Sky 40 /10 without finishing the job, so give me 8 / 0.8 copper to fill the void lol

VincentHanna · 29 Jul 2020 at 10:25

The main benefit for me is downloading games.

Horizon Zero Dawn is launching on PC soon and is 100GB

That would have taken me about 7 hours before.
Now it will take about 15 minutes.

SixTwoSix · 29 Jul 2020 at 12:53

VincentHanna said:
The main benefit for me is downloading games.

Horizon Zero Dawn is launching on PC soon and is 100GB

That would have taken me about 7 hours before.
Now it will take about 15 minutes.

It's great isn't it, not having to plan ahead on what games to play. I've gone from 25Mb to 900Mb and I think at full speed, 900Mb will download 380GB.

I haven't managed to max the speed on any of the game platforms yet, I got Steam up to just under 800Mb. Have also tried Origin, Uplay, Epic, Battle.net, BSG but they hover around the 500-700Mb mark.

Doco · 4 Aug 2020 at 15:35

BT Full Fibre is now available in my area, phoned up and went for the 300mb offer, due installation on the 2/9 - bit disappointing with how long its going to take but looking forward to the upgrade

opethdisciple · 4 Aug 2020 at 22:19

Generally over the years my connection has been rock solid. However last two weeks I have two disconnections. Last night just before bed around 12:20am the internet went down and didn't come up again for two hours from the logs.

I couldn't find any evidence on the web that there was any issues in my local area so not sure what happened.

iMacMart · 6 Aug 2020 at 20:30

Evening all

I think I saw someone ask this before but is there and online rollout schedule for FTTP as I’m interested to see when Hertfordshire (Letchworth to be exact) might appear on it

thanks

Greg0986 · 6 Aug 2020 at 21:14

iMacMart said:
Evening all

I think I saw someone ask this before but is there and online rollout schedule for FTTP as I’m interested to see when Hertfordshire (Letchworth to be exact) might appear on it

thanks

Yep, just over half way down the page https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first

They released a new batch of areas recently.

iMacMart · 6 Aug 2020 at 22:11

Greg0986 said:
Yep, just over half way down the page https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first

They released a new batch of areas recently.

Great thanks, will keep an eye on that page

ChrisD. · 10 Aug 2020 at 08:14

Any idea when Sky are going to pull their finger out and offer FTTP?

Caged · 10 Aug 2020 at 12:31

You can supposedly phone them and order it, but it's a bit of a lottery whether you get an agent that is trained to sell FTTP - if you don't then their screen won't show it as being available.

Ayahuasca · 10 Aug 2020 at 12:52

The town over from me shows FTTP build in progress on that Openreach map. Nothing scheduled for here yet, I'm living in hope that it's not too far away as my only other option for decent speeds is renewing with Virgin next summer.

vail3r · 12 Aug 2020 at 13:43

Just got my FTTP installed at long last! Hurrah.

I do seem to have the 50mb upload cap though so will hopefully get that sorted soon.

acharris · 12 Aug 2020 at 14:39

vail3r said:
Just got my FTTP installed at long last! Hurrah.

I do seem to have the 50mb upload cap though so will hopefully get that sorted soon.

I had mine installed last Tuesday and had the same. I did a factory reset and it cured it for me and got the full 110. I also got the latest firmware v0.17. Try factory reset first mate

iMacMart · 13 Aug 2020 at 10:58

vail3r said:
Just got my FTTP installed at long last! Hurrah.

I do seem to have the 50mb upload cap though so will hopefully get that sorted soon.

acharris said:
I had mine installed last Tuesday and had the same. I did a factory reset and it cured it for me and got the full 110. I also got the latest firmware v0.17. Try factory reset first mate

Where are you guys in the country please

acharris · 13 Aug 2020 at 14:34

iMacMart said:
Where are you guys in the country please

South Wales up in the valleys. Got enabled in March, just before the pandemic started

Acolyte · 13 Aug 2020 at 14:37

Not sure if its news or not, but if your in Swindon or Slough FTTH infastructure installation is starting Oct this year.

digitalwolf · 13 Aug 2020 at 15:05

Greg0986 said:
Yep, just over half way down the page https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-first

They released a new batch of areas recently.

Stuck my details in the register an interest and I am part of the roll out plan apparently.

They've done an estate near me recently and i've seen BT vans with 'full fiber broadband' signs around manhole covers.

Wonder how long i've got to wait!