bt infinity

ive been told by bt that they can give me the infinity package and offer me speeds of up to 34meg but anyone else all they have to offer is max 8 am i being led up the garden path by bt ???

Is your exchange FTTC enabled? If it is, then you may be able to get BT Infinity and several other fibre suppliers.

no unfortunately its not just adsl,adsl max thats why cant understand how there offering these speeds

if there is physically no FTTC, thern you can not get above say 20M unless on cable. All services will be 8m, 16m, 20m or 24M max depending on supplier and the length of your line.

This could be the Faster BT Broadband Option 3 over fibre

Did they quote you a price?

yeah £18 a month 40gb download

Sounds like the standard Infinity option 1 price there.


Go to SamKnows and put in your phone number. It should tell you when your exchange will be FTTC enabled and if it is or isn't.

Post deleted by billford

In reply to a post by craigglawson:

This could be the Faster BT Broadband Option 3 over fibre

Did they quote you a price?

That is FTTC. Just their (difficult to get) hidden service for people with under 15Mbps FTTC estimate. Which doesn't quite tie in with the sales talk to the OP.

As you (don't quite) say in another post, we need a link to what samknows says about the OP's exchange.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 30-May-11 09:38:34)

Please see my second post

I did, before replying to the first one. Nothing wrong with your second one, good advice, but the first is rubbish . Given an estimate from sales of 34Mbps, and the OP's statements that the exchange is ADSL Max only, there is no way they could be talking about Option 3 with fibre.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NIBRS

thats the link to my exchange hope this helps mate

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Well according to that you are right saying you can't get Infinity, but according to a BT Openreach spreadsheet it is in Phase 5a or 5b for NI, depending on post code. IIRC that is the current rollout.

What does the BT Wholesale Checker say?

I seem to remember, technically, fttc is possible, even if the local exchange doesn't support it, but an adjacent exchange hosts the fibre.

hi it says the line supports a fibre technology wbc fttc of 34-6 down and 7.2 upstream

In reply to a post by ggremlin:

I seem to remember, technically, fttc is possible, even if the local exchange doesn't support it, but an adjacent exchange hosts the fibre.

That's correct - it happens quite often. What I think has happened is that samknows is either having one of its periodic updating lags, or hasn't been given the latest info which comes from an Openreach "confidential" file someone spotted and some of us downloaded before they blocked access.

As if keeping this sort of info secret matters ! The words are "corporate paranoia", not "commercial sensitivity".

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

hi it says the line supports a fibre technology wbc fttc of 34-6 down and 7.2 upstream

Brilliant. Does this checker come up with fibre available?

no it says just says 8 meg download available

Give it a few days. I think you may find several checkers get to see FTTC available for you. Just waiting for the relevant BT database to update.

Have a look at this spreadsheet for basic info about the ISPs who can all supply if BT can supply Infinity. Does the Infinity checker show it?