In reply to a post by candlerb:

I guess if you really want the BT service you could do it in stages:

- take service from another ISP on port 2
- cancel existing service on port 1
- take service from BT on port 1

But I wouldn't put it past BT to screw up and terminate your service on port 2 at the same time.

Probably not the best time to be doing this either. I note for example that Aquiss have got rid of their three-month initial discount on FTTP, and replaced it with a £50 up-front charge... making them much less attractive as a choice for the port 2 ISP.

Yeah thats next on my list of attempts if they stick to the current made up excuse of can't do Port2! I had been eyeing up the cheapest on Aquiss as a low cost 1-year back-up/transition provider. If it wasn't like it was now I may consider a termination/restart. Not really because if it wasn't like now we would be open and using broadband and I wouldn't want an outage. An outage now would be preferable to normal, we could survive on a dongle.

But given BT placed an order for service on Port 2 last week I don't see how they can claim they can't do it this week. The only issue last week was the working line takeover for phone.

I'll update when I hear back.
Dave

right, uploads and downloads are at the full speed now, so we are now down to the wireless issue on the smarthub 2. Spoke with BT who eventually agreed to send out a new smarthub 2 to see if that will fix the issue...roll on wednesday!

In reply to a post by dewi:

I ordered an upgrade from BT Fibre 250 to BT Fibre 900 on 30 April. The upgrade went live today (4 May) at about 1:00 am.

Yeah I didn't even notice when ours went live just after midnight the date that they said, there was no drop in connection, I only knew ours went live when I was uploading a file and I was getting faster then 51Mbps.

So I did a speed test and saw that the upload had gone from 51 to 119Mbps, however the download was still stuck at 280 to 295Mbps, so I did a reboot of the router and here we are

I did have to change routers due to my old Linksys couldn't handle the max download speed and kept rebooting.

Paul

In reply to a post by ravingkamikaze2:

right, uploads and downloads are at the full speed now, so we are now down to the wireless issue on the smarthub 2. Spoke with BT who eventually agreed to send out a new smarthub 2 to see if that will fix the issue...roll on wednesday!

You will probably find out there will be no change, I hope it does resolve your issues, but I have had 3 Smart Hubs sent to me in the past due to Wi-Fi, Hub being Sluggish and other issues, none of the replacements fixed those, yet all of my 3rd party routers had way better Wi-Fi than BT Hubs.

Don't get me wrong, the Smart Hubs are ok, they just work when you plug them in, but they are just soooooo locked down and to have it how you want you need another router used as a DMZ with the Smart Hub, so you might as well just remove the Smart Hub.

Maybe the Smart Hub 2 is different, ours is still in its box on the shelf to be used as a backup router or when there is a fault on the connection.

But that's just me.

Paul

What router you running at the moment?

In reply to a post by ravingkamikaze2:

What router you running at the moment?

I am currently using a MikroTik Tik RB4011iGS+RM (just a router without Wi-Fi) which is listed in my Sig.

Seems to be working great and at full load (i.e. using full connection) it only used 25% of the CPU, so plenty more resources available.

It comes with no Wi-Fi on this model which was why I chose it, I am using a Ubiquiti UniFi nanoHD Access Point for our Wi-Fi which works great.

I chose to separate the two so that if I wanted to upgrade one part I can.

I have the following issues with this router:

• The storage is a bit on the low side and there is no USB to add external storage, so at a later date I will have to setup a server to store the routers logs (Rsyslog).
• By default IPv6 is disabled, this is due to there is no Firewall Filters / Rules in place of IPv6, so I had to enable that and add those.
• It came with no manual due to its all online, sadly some of the examples don't work due to they are for an older / previous version of the firmware, but will hopefully get updated later on.

Other than that its running nice and cool at 27°C which is good for a fanless router considering its located right by the window.

I was also setting it all up while using the old router and just enabled the DHCP and changed its IP once I was ready to swap over, this sped things up some what.

So overall I rather like this router, please be aware this router is not as easy setting up as other routers, so just a heads up.

Paul

Got fed wih up waiting for BT Business to release the 1 Gig service so have placed an online order with BT Residential for Fibre 900 for £59.99/m. Went through Quidco so should hopefully get £100 cashback as a nice brucie bonus (not a biggie if I don't though).

Have been given an activation date of 22nd May and the service should be going live on Port 4 of the ONT. The icing on the cake was BT Residential should be able to transfer my yay.com landline VOIP number back to copper, which I've had for donkeys years. BT Business couldn't do the transfer when i asked them to do the same (apparently they don't do voip>voip number transfers just yet)

Will update once I go live, but not expecting any issues since I'm ordering as a new customer.

Happy days

You currently have 3 x 330/350Mb services on ports 1-3 is that right?

Are you aware that the 4 port ONT is apparently limited to 1Gb total downstream bandwidth?
Or is it your intention to cancel some/all of the feeds on ports 1-3?

If not the ONT might be quite the bottleneck on the downstream.

Yep aware of the bandwidth limitations on the HG8240.

Plan is to cease the services on ports 1 & 2 very soon. Once CityFibre install fibre by the end of year (spoke to CF local delivery manager who said my street will definitively be cabled up) , then I plan on getting rid of the BT Business 330/50 line as well. The BT 1000/115 line will purely be for personal use whilst I will take out a 1000/1000 CityFibre service through a reseller such as Highnet and that will be used for work where I really need the higher up upload.

In reply to a post by Highland76:

Got fed wih up waiting for BT Business to release the 1 Gig service so have placed an online order with BT Residential for Fibre 900 for £59.99/m.

Have been given an activation date of 22nd May and the service should be going live on Port 4 of the ONT.

[censored].... They cancelled mine as they can only do Port 1 apparently. I supposedly have a complaint open but hear nothing back. Please update if it goes live. Will be chasing complaint tomorrow.

Dave