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S.MULLA, on 12 April 2012 - 13:07, said:

You have to use a Openreach modem which is VDSL. This is a dumb modem- nothing fancy. you can then conenct this to the crappy BT home hub or any firewall /router which has ethernet for wan.

I use a Cisco ASA 5505 and works brill with the static ip's.

I think Draytech make a VDSL modem/router all in one (around £120) which can replace the openreach modem and home hub.

I use a WRT160NL running DD-WRT, gotta love that firmware

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BeLGaRaTh, on 12 April 2012 - 13:10, said:

Whats strange is that it tells me it is not available in my area (Infinity) and I can have between 4Mb and 8Mb with 2Mb estimated (sic?) yet if I put my downstairs neighbours phone number into the system it tells me that Infinity is available and he can have upto 33.6Mb

We are both in the same property so how is that possible?

Try this
https://www.btwholes.../adsl/main.html


I know if you can't get up to a certain speed, they can't give you Infinity, and offer something called Faster BB or something, I think it is upto 24meg ADSL

[n_K]

The openreach modem? Humm now I'm confused, on the phone she said about supplying my own modem, so now I'm unsure if she meant an 'openreach' device or the home hub. Not sure if this will come with the openreach thing or not now haha.

'I currently have the 5 static ips for extra £5/month.'
On virgin I've got 5 static IPs, well no, they're 'fixed IPs' (and they're ****). Are these REAL static IPs and I actually have 5 I can assign to anything? Do I need to use DHCP or put in the static IP details? With NTL I had to register each PC on some rubbish 'acorn' NTL service to get the proper fixed IPs of 6x.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of 8x.xxx.xxx.xxx

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Detection, on 12 April 2012 - 13:10, said:

Try this
https://www.btwholes.../adsl/main.html


I know if you can't get up to a certain speed, they can't give you Infinity, and offer something called Faster BB or something, I think it is upto 24meg ADSL

ROFL, just tried there and that gives the exact same information as the BT Infinity site, as I say something is definitely screwy with this How can a property split into upstairs flat (me) and downstairs flat (Neighbour) have completely different estimates? Its not as if the cable has to go miles further down the road

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n_K, on 12 April 2012 - 13:11, said:

The openreach modem? Humm now I'm confused, on the phone she said about supplying my own modem, so now I'm unsure if she meant an 'openreach' device or the home hub. Not sure if this will come with the openreach thing or not now haha.

Yea they are pretty unclear sometimes, I would say you will get the Openreach modem as part of the package, at a guess I'd say for business lines you will not get a 'home' hub, ? Not sure, just a guess because of the name

BeLGaRaTh, on 12 April 2012 - 13:16, said:

ROFL, just tried there and that gives the exact same information as the BT Infinity site, as I say something is definitely screwy with this How can a property split into upstairs flat (me) and downstairs flat (Neighbour) have completely different estimates? Its not as if the cable has to go miles further down the road

Are you renting your line through BT or another company ?

I know on the BT forums a few people were getting some weird results once the upgrade went live, its probably just a glitch on their site, some people were told they were not even on Infinity anymore when they blatantly were !

[Salem874]

I'd be happy If i can any Infinity at all!!

Our exchange was due to get 21CN (ADSL2+) in 2010. It's now 2012, and that has disappeared. If we cant even get that I wont expect to get Infinity.

BT, please prove me wrong!

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Detection, on 12 April 2012 - 13:20, said:

Are you renting your line through BT or another company ?

I know on the BT forums a few people were getting some weird results once the upgrade went live, its probably just a glitch on their site, some people were told they were not even on Infinity anymore when they blatantly were !

Neighbour has his line through BT but no internet as he has no need for it, my line is through VM hence me using the postcode search. I would have thought the postcode search just checks the local exchange and then obviously tells you what is available in that exchange. I just find it strange that the information is wildly different when we are both in the same building Im on the first floor he's on the ground floor, plus it says mine is 4-8Mb with an estimate of 2Mb obviously 2Mb is lower than the lower speed given

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BeLGaRaTh, on 12 April 2012 - 16:35, said:

Neighbour has his line through BT but no internet as he has no need for it, my line is through VM hence me using the postcode search. I would have thought the postcode search just checks the local exchange and then obviously tells you what is available in that exchange. I just find it strange that the information is wildly different when we are both in the same building Im on the first floor he's on the ground floor, plus it says mine is 4-8Mb with an estimate of 2Mb obviously 2Mb is lower than the lower speed given

If you are putting your neighbours number into the system and they are with BT, vs your number and you are with VM, I guess BT can see there is no line at your property they can use

Start renting your line from BT and it will show Infinity as available i'd imagine

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I get 80/20 with Plusnet

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Yes but surely

Detection, on 12 April 2012 - 17:23, said:

If you are putting your neighbours number into the system and they are with BT, vs your number and you are with VM, I guess BT can see there is no line at your property they can use

Start renting your line from BT and it will show Infinity as available i'd imagine

I just find it strange that the address search says not available, whilst a number search does, I entered my downstairs neighbours property number with the postcode and it said it wasnt available. See what I'm getting at, how can they say two different things for the same address?

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BeLGaRaTh, on 12 April 2012 - 17:48, said:

Yes but surely


I just find it strange that the address search says not available, whilst a number search does, I entered my downstairs neighbours property number with the postcode and it said it wasnt available. See what I'm getting at, how can they say two different things for the same address?

Maybe the system is confused because the same address has two different providers, no idea, call them

[trix]

Does anyone know when this will be available to business users? the current service i'm getting from BT.

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Detection, on 12 April 2012 - 19:01, said:

Maybe the system is confused because the same address has two different providers, no idea, call them

Just called them and got the same result, explained it was the same physical property but they just said the two websites are correct downstairs can get 34Mb I can only get 2Mb

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BeLGaRaTh, on 13 April 2012 - 09:55, said:

Just called them and got the same result, explained it was the same physical property but they just said the two websites are correct downstairs can get 34Mb I can only get 2Mb

Its got to be the fact you are with VM, they probably just look on the test site the same as you (One of those, "Have you turned it off and on again" lists)


My Infinity got the boost around 12:30am this morning

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So why have BT been made to round it down to 76Mbps, rather than advertising the full 80Mbps?

Because above ^^^ shows you can clearly go over 76Mbps.