Thinking of Joining

I'm thinking of joining as I can get around 63MB, 20MB Up.

How is fibre delivered to the house ?

My main BT socket is by the front door, Ideally I'd like the router etc at the back of the house in my office. Will they do that ?

Should I stick with the router they provide or can I use my own ? If you can use your own any you would recommend ?
I will need certain ports opening for my office VPN and VoIP can that be done on their router ?

Anything else I need to be aware of ?
Thanks

Normal infinity is Fttc, fibre to the cabinet. The wires into your house are unchanged. You can ask for a data extension so the modem and router a placed away from the master. Free up to a certain distance, make sure you register it with your order.

I suggest you try the supplied router and see how it goes. Many find it adequate, many others don't.

In reply to a post by MrPete:

Should I stick with the router they provide or can I use my own ? If you can use your own any you would recommend ?
I will need certain ports opening for my office VPN and VoIP can that be done on their router ?

Its no worse than the BE 585v7 to be honest. I quickly swapped it for my own Draytek but you can use any router with PPPoE support.

However watch that many can't keep up with the speeds! My Draytek 2820 is only reported to do 50meg, but my speeds max at 51 so I'm just on the limit.

Thanks.

Does the default router allow you to open ports etc ?
Anyone got a manual for it, would't mind a quick look !

Remember that you do not have to go with BT retail to get FTTC.

There are other providers who will certainly give you a router which will have the complete freedom to do whatever you want.

http://business.bt.com/broadband-and-internet/busine...

In reply to a post by MrPete:

How is fibre delivered to the house ?

http://www.robertos.me.uk/html/fttx.html

Thanks.
BT seem to be the only ones offering unlimited downloads for a reasonable price.
Unless you can point me to another provider

You need over 250GB in peak with unlimited night-time?

BT can and I believe do throttle P2P when things get busy.

Or Sky?

Problem I have is I don't know how much bandwidth we are currently using. Current provider is unlimited.

There are 5 of use in the house ( inc 3 teenagers ) so the internet gets some hammer.

P2P isn't an issue for me, but speed and download capacity is.
Sky seem to limit at 40MB, BT are offering 63MB so they seem the favourite at the moment.