Fibre Broadband finally comes to my area

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The BT Infinity upgrade appears to actually be complete here and available (quite a surprise when I checked today). So I'm now looking into switching over to fibre broadband from my current 5-6Mbit ADSL, to 76MB Fibre. :)

Does anyone already have BT Infinity? And if so what is your experience of it? Is it reliable and fast? Any drop outs or issues? What is BT's customer service like? Was the installation smooth?

And what about competitors? I've noticed Sky, TalkTalk, and a few others are also offering it via BT wholesale.

And finally, how is it installed in the house? Do they add an extra socket? My issue is I really need the router located in my office upstairs, and it can't really be relocated near the existing BT master socket because in their wisdom the builders didn't put any plug sockets anywhere near that socket.

Oh, and what is the process? Is it like switching ISP needing a MAC code? Or different? What happens with your existing ADSL broadband? Does it remain active on your landline until you cancel it? Or does it shut off when the fibre connection is activated?
 
Hi Harrison!

I had BT Infinity installed about 2 months ago and it's the best thing since sliced bread.

My old 3.7mbit is now 66mbit :D

I used to get regular drop outs but not a single time have I lost service since installed.

Your broadband is still connected to the phone socket like before, it goes down the copper line to the nearest fibre point. (mine is in the next street) There is a router and then the BT WiFi Hub. The hub can be installed anywhere but the BT engineer will only have a 1.5m cat5 cable, no problem I bought a 10m from eBay and relocated it. You will need a power socket near the phone point for the router though.

It was the same as switching ISP, you get the MAC code from your existing ISP and you can enter it online after ordering from BT unless you have it in advance.

I was sad to leave BE Unlimied as they rock, but I'm really pleased with infinity, I've absolutely terrorized the badwith and no issues, it's great to see stuff download at several mbit/sec :cool:

My old broadband seemed to get disconnected the same day as install, I'm not sure if this was planned since I had paid till the end of the month (an extra week) But I didn't need it, I had the full 66mbit (more then the 53mbit quoted) right away!

Anyway, you wont regret it :thumbsup:
 
Reading a few forums I think BT Infinity is looking the best over others such as Sky and Plus net.

So once infinity is installed can the router only be plugged into the main master phone socket? (annoying if so as my computers all all connected via ethernet and not wireless) Or can you connect it to any extension in your house? My house has a phone point in every room. And do you still need filters on each phone point as with ADSL?
 
Fibre is a different world. I'm on 120mb Virgin fibre cable and its just stupid fast... I couldn't go back to DSL again! Been with Virgin Media on super fast broadband for 3 and a half years now :)
 
The Aussie NBN Co just started rolling out Fibre in our area and it should be complete by mid next year - I'll be signing up for a 50/20mbps plan to replace my rubbish 4.5mbps ADSL but we'll be able to buy plans starting from 12/1mbps all the way up to 1000/400mbps once it's done! :D

Only issue is the morons from the Liberal party look like winning the next election and to protect Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel HFC monopoly, they will make all area's not under construction already FTTN instead of FTTP (f'n retards!).
 
djos said:
The Aussie NBN Co just started rolling out Fibre in our area and it should be complete by mid next year - I'll be signing up for a 50/20mbps plan to replace my rubbish 4.5mbps ADSL but we'll be able to buy plans starting from 12/1mbps all the way up to 1000/400mbps once it's done! :D

Only issue is the morons from the Liberal party look like winning the next election and to protect Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel HFC monopoly, they will make all area's not under construction already FTTN instead of FTTP (f'n retards!).
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Tell me about it, best I can get to our house is even less than 4.5mbps and makes streaming HD movies a tiny bit difficult. :picard
 
There's two ways you can get super-fast fibre broadband.

The first is called Fibre to the Cabinet, or FTTC. That means they run fibre right to the cabinet nearest your property, and you make a VDSL connection over the copper from your home to that cabinet. You can see speeds up to 80Mbit/s down and 20Mbit/s up.

The second is called Fibre to the Premises, or FTTP. That means they run the fibre all the way into your home, with a new fibre socket somewhere in your property. (Not sure of location requirements, but I don't see why they couldn't run it to a room of your choosing.) Installation might be expensive, but you should be able to see speeds in excess of 100Mbit/s.

I'm just waiting for my ISP (Eclipse) to start offering fibre broadband in my area, then I'm going to jump for it. The fibres are going down now, so it won't be long!

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djos said:
AndyLandy said:
There's two ways you can get super-fast fibre broadband.
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Things are a bit different here in Aus and it's rather a hot topic atm!
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It looks like it! I don't understand why they don't simply offer you the choice. I can have FTTP if I want it (well, once they're ready to go) but I'll have to pay for installation. FTTC is the other choice, and it's cheaper to install. I don't think we're offered FTTN by anyone.
 
Our Labor gov is currently rolling out FTTP to 93% of the population because the telcos have all refused to even rollout FTTN/FTTC without massive handouts and regulatory holidays, but the conservative opposition, counterintuitivly called the liberal Party, think FTTP is too good for us (and will hurt their mate Rupert Murdoch's newspapers and Foxtel paytv monopolies) and want to roll out FTTN using Telstra's rotting copper network all to save 10billion dollars!
 
We've had 100mbit for (almost) everyone the past 10 years. I pay less than 10 euros a month for our connection.
Sweden wins.
Yay.

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Also, they're starting to roll in 1gbit fibre all over town where I live. It's a bit expensive right now, costs 80 euros a month.
 
Fibre has been available here for a while, but only BT Infinity.
At the moment I'd only get just over twice what I get now on DSL, so I'm waiting until the speed increase justifies the price.
 
Ours is GPON fibre and you can buy 12/1, 25/5, 50/20, 100/40, 250/100, 500/200 & 1000/400mbps plans from which ever ISP you want as the NBN co is a wholesale network operator only.

The liberals crappy plan is 25/6mbps which is frankly insulting!
 
thanius said:
We've had 100mbit for (almost) everyone the past 10 years. I pay less than 10 euros a month for our connection.
Sweden wins.
Yay.

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Also, they're starting to roll in 1gbit fibre all over town where I live. It's a bit expensive right now, costs 80 euros a month.
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Aside from the eurovision song contest that could be the first time sweden ever won anything :lol:
 
Lucky some! I live in a suburb in western Sydney, part of Blacktown council area (working class majority!) and we are NOT receiving the NBN, that's right, an entire area is scheduled to receive the rollout but our suburb is being omitted for some stupid reason! Even Labours own federal representative in our area had to front up and demand an explanation from Gillard when she was visiting Blacktown last year!
So right now half of the suburb has adsl and half Telstras cable (I'm lucky to have cable)
I understand that there is no comparison between Australia and Europe as just the sheer size of au is humongous compared to for eg Sweden or UK and our total population is only 23milion but come on! Making such silly decisions like the one I wrote about above can only be made by a politician :(

Currently I get an average of around 6mbs of download even if my plan states 20mbs LOL my monthly plan includes cable Internet 200gb, phone with free local and state calls included plus a pvr and services associated within it, all for $110 ;)
 
SpecialK, it's a 10 year project, most folk aren't getting it in the 1st 2 years of the major build starting - i get 4.5mbps DSL on copper that's supposed to do 6-7mbps (3km line length) and we have no HFC at all around my place either.
 
@djos, oh mate i dont have a problem with that, what the issue was with us; imagine a street with houses on both sides and they are going to only roll out cable on one side only, the one closer to the cbd leaving the other side with no rollout... same with our suburb :(
blacktown, road, my suburb and then nothing...just blooody bush behind us, i could understand if there were other suburbs further behind us then sure no worries "come back later boys" but for blooody sake! we are the last ones! LOL ;)

same thing happened to my uncle and aunt in Tasmania...for the cameras and reporters the rollout was in full swing, main road in a small town, done! adjacent roads and properties, done! ........living 3 kilometers from the main road? forget it mate! you can enjoy the expensive perils of satellite or super duper adsl with dial-up speeds :)

anyway...all good, we can all move to Sweden :) nah, just kidding, i love AU and will never move, actually Tasmania is looking quite inviting ;)
 
I can understand how frustrating that would be having fibre on one side of the street and not the other but this is just an engineering problem that cant be avoided and every area in the roll out will have streets like that.

I've lived in a street with HFC available on one side and not the other too.
 
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