Fitting BT Infinity - what exactly is involved?

[Deva Link]

RichB said:

There is one blanked off socket in the hall - unused,

Is that on the opposite side of the wall to where the junction box is? It's the logical place for the master socket to be, and it seems most odd that BT people have wired your other extensions from the junction box unless it was done many years ago and each socket has a ring capacitor in it.

[philthy]

bimsb6 said:

Just hope it's not a contractor then !

Amen to that brother. They'll nail it to a window !

[RichB]

Deva Link said:

RichB said:

There is one blanked off socket in the hall - unused,

Is that on the opposite side of the wall to where the junction box is? It's the logical place for the master socket to be, and it seems most odd that BT people have wired your other extensions from the junction box unless it was done many years ago and each socket has a ring capacitor in it.

Exactly, where that wire marked 'to lounge' goes through the wall about 4' off floor level, the first level hall is on the other side so it comes through at floor level. Obviously no one has their phone in the hall these days so it's blanked off. All the other additions have been done over the years by BT...

[bimsb6]

Deva Link said:

Is that on the opposite side of the wall to where the junction box is? It's the logical place for the master socket to be, and it seems most odd that BT people have wired your other extensions from the junction box unless it was done many years ago and each socket has a ring capacitor in it.

Teeing in used to be common didn't cause a problem until broadband came about , there would be no need for all the sockets to have a capacitor as the bell circuit could still be linked in at the external point ,Virgin still do it and fit an nte on every socket!

[LooneyTunes]

LocoBlade said:

When Infinity is installed the modem and router will have to go next to the master socket, so the upstairs machine would have to either be wireless or have Cat5 cable running to it for it to connect.

It's stating the bleeding obvious, but the modem and router each need power sockets too (and, unlike most adsl units, they're two separate boxes). Very easy to end up with a rat's nest of cabling on show if you're not careful.

Persuaded the BT chappie to put our master socket in an understairs cupboard so that the modem and router, along with all of the other boxes that hang off our phone line and network, could be easily hidden.

[RichB]

Well that's all sorted Apparently the chap last year had already "doubled it back" to the garage so the box in my study/office was my master and the rest was easy - so now I'm all high-speed internet enabled - better go and see what's the iPlayer to watch!

[Podie]

Repeated speedtests should absorb you for a bit

[RichB]

Not as impressive as the speed test shown below by Boxst but certainly much quicker than it was I'm happy with that.

[Podie]

RichB said:

Not as impressive as the speed test shown below by Boxst but certainly much quicker than it was I'm happy with that.

Ours improved over the first few days...

[maniac886]

RichB said:

Not as impressive as the speed test shown below by Boxst but certainly much quicker than it was I'm happy with that.

RichB , is your speed above close to your estimated speed? -

You can check using the link below:

https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.htm...

Update - Just realised Boxst will be on the Infinity 2 package as that provides higher speeds..it looks like you are on the standard Infinity deal which means its likely those speeds will be the max you can get.

Edited by maniac886 on Monday 31st December 11:07

[RichB]

maniac886 said:

RichB , is your speed above close to your estimated speed? -

Chap who fitted it said he usually see about 40 mbps in this area so I'm more than happy, if it imporves over the next week then even better.

[ALawson]

Have any of you gone with BT for TV instead of sky or virgin?

[RichB]

No we've got Sky multiroom...

[boxst]

Just don't do what I did and unplug the modem multiple times within the first few days whilst I was messing around with positioning etc...

My speed is back up now, but went as below:

Down  Up    Sync  BRAS
20000 77436 80000 TR101 Auto 27-Dec-2012 02:04 27-Dec-2012 02:04 
19000 61302 63332 TR101 Auto 19-Dec-2012 08:23 19-Dec-2012 08:23 
20000 68755 71032 TR101 Auto 18-Dec-2012 23:31 18-Dec-2012 23:31 
20000 74099 76552 TR101 Auto 18-Dec-2012 08:24 18-Dec-2012 08:24 
20000 77436 80000 TR101 Auto 14-Dec-2012 11:07 14-Dec-2012 11:07 

[Kermit power]

bimsb6 said:

The line is NOT supposed to be backwired through the internal wiring , the feed cable to the master socket (nte) should only be used to feed the line to the nte from outside . Backwiring can destroy the broadband sped.

We had this issue when we had ours done a few months ago. The master socket was in the hallway, where it would've been put when the house was first wired up to the phone network, I'd imagine.

The engineer just joined the wires in the box together to take that socket out of use and run the line up to my study in the loft conversion to what is now the only working socket in the house.

This is the performance I'm getting on my home PC upstairs...





It does get slower by the time it has run back downstairs via IP over mains, but even there it's consistently running at around 25-30Mbps download speeds.