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Our roads just been enabled and I'm just about to order it but am confused about the installation
Virgin have been here for years and the neighbours had a new cable fitted from the pavement up to their house, however the BT website suggests that infinity comes down the phone line only and the clever bits are all behind the scenes at street level
Have I got that right?
And if so does the easier installation compared to virgin come at any cost to performance?
On the other hand it avoids having the garden dug up
Thanks
I had it done a few weeks ago. BT engineer does something at the exchange then replaces the socket in the house with a new one that connects to the modem and router.
no complaints so far. Went from 8 meg on LLU 02 to 40 meg with BT infinity
Yup it still uses the copper wires which is why you get a varied speed depending on how far from the exchange you are.
Just had Plusnet fibre installed, so same thing.
It's FTTC (fibre to the cabinet), so the last bit to your house is still over the phone line. The engineer installs a "modem" and a slightly different faceplate on your master socket. The modem is then connected to your router via the WAN socket and away you go. Modem is wall mounted, I have mine connected to the Wifi router downstairs via some powerline adapters, I'm probably seeing a bit of transmission losses because of that, but I've yet to investigate fully. I'm happy with it so far 🙂
woody2000
Just had the same done with mine and I use the same setup as you-very pleased so far but speed does vary a bit. At first the engineer stacked the router on top of the modem & said it would be ok but it ran very hot so I wall mounted it-cool as you like now.
As per wood but on sky fibre optic. Speeds vary 17mb to 35mb. Should be up to 40mb and I do think the powerline adapters are causing some loss. But hey 17mb is plenty fast.
Yup it still uses the copper wires which is why you get a varied speed depending on how far from the exchange you are.
Small correction, it does use copper wires but from the big green cabinets rather than from the exchange. That's why it's faster - instead of a 3km length of copper wire, it's more like 50m - the rest is fibre (hence fibre to the cabinet).