BT and VPN

Anyone use VPN with HH5? I have read reports of it giving problems when used this way.

I connect to my work Intranet through an AT&T VPN client on a HH5 over FTTP with no problems at all.

Thank You for that, how do you find Plusnet, I am still thinking about who to use.

PlusNet were fine for the 12 years that I was with them. However, they could not provide me with FTTP without passing a £3100 Openreach charge on to me and so I went with BT Retail who absorbed the charges.

Cancelled PlusNet this morning so need to update my sig again.

Nothing to stop you going back to PN for FTTP when your BT contract ends

Absolutely. But that is 18 months time. A lot can happen before then.

Except they don't do a FTTP package

But they have an FTTP trial running, which seems to be a permanent arrangement until they find a need to announce an official FTTP product - not done yet because of the overall low coverage of FTTP over the country as a whole.

Says you.

Which part of my post are you doubting?

I was all set to join the PlusNet FTTP Trial until we came across the stumbling block of the £4100 Openreach excess construction charge which Openreach would have swallowed £1000 and PlusNet wanted to pass the rest on to me. At that point I opted for BT instead.

"Cancelled PlusNet this morning so need to update my sig again."

Thanks for info, I see you soon changed your sig!

Interesting how a simple question soon turns into something else.

Given the FTTP connection uses it's own "modem" (ONT) not the one built into the HH5, I guess there is still some uncertainty about whether VPN works, but I haven't had any problem with the HH5 and VPN on my FTTC connection.

There were some occasional rumblings of problems on the BT Community forums but these seem to have died off now, or just been overshadowed by the enormous cock-up BT introduced with their latest firmware updates to the HH5A.

Edited by deleted (Thu 26-Feb-15 17:49:21)

So your getting an 80/20 service over FTTP?

Why not 330/30?

Edited by epyon (Thu 26-Feb-15 19:02:26)

In reply to a post by epyon:

Why not 330/30?

Cost?

Before Fibre I was getting 15Mb down and .8Mb up. As no on gets a choice between FTTP and FTTC (excepting FTTPoD which is not what I have) then the only fibre service that I could get was FTTP. I never really found the 15Mb a problem but the .8 upload was limiting. But I did want an unlimited connection. So 80 / 20 was the obvious choice to give me 25 times the upload speed. I could have paid twice as much for 300 / 30 but did not think that I would have seen any additional benefit. I can always upgrade later if want to.

You could as easily ask why some people choose 40/2 or 40/10 on a line capable of 80/20. As someone else said it is usually cost against requirement - most people don't need and won't/can't justify the higher cost of the faster services.