BT WiFi

[jim8flog]

I have been very happy with BT fibre where I live but I am very close to the nearest cabinet.

I do get very very occasional total drop outs which last for a very short period of time (the router has to self reboot).

My daughter was complaining about the wifi the other day until I showed her it was her phone that was the problem and not the router.

 

[jim8flog]

. After that it goes into every house by 30 yr old aluminium wires apparently. Not even copper!

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BT replaced all of our aluminium wires a few years back because they were coming out so often to mend the breaks.

It was tried 40 or so years ago because of the copper shortage.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

BT replaced all of our aluminium wires a few years back because they were coming out so often to mend the breaks.

It was tried 40 or so years ago because of the copper shortage.

Annoyingly the water board are currently changing all, and I mean all, of the pipes on our estate. A perfect chance, to a layman, to sort out the cabling at the same time, roads all dug up. Not happening though.

Did you notice an improvement when the wires were changed?

 

[User62651]

On BT for many years now, got upgraded to Infinity this year after it becoming available in my street, getting about 50-60+ Mbps, terrific, there are usually phones, tablets, xboxes, laptops and a big tv all using wifi, never drops or buffers.....so far. Can get movies downloaded onto devices pdq. Quite impressed really.

Probably jinxed it now.

 

[jim8flog]

Annoyingly the water board are currently changing all, and I mean all, of the pipes on our estate. A perfect chance, to a layman, to sort out the cabling at the same time, roads all dug up. Not happening though.

Did you notice an improvement when the wires were changed?

From memory (and touching wood) I cannot remember being without a phone line since they were changed. My only annoyance is that they put the master socket in a different place in the house to that agreed ( I was away when it was done).

 

[chrisd]

i switch between BT and Sky as and when the pricing suits. I live in a village and have fast broadband courtesy of BT's green cabinet which is super

 

[Old Skier]

Been BT a while and a quick tweet normally sorts a problem. What I never realised was if you (like I used to) switch the router off for any length of time BT assume a fault on the line and throttle the speed down to try and maintain a working connection.

 

[Crazyface]

Seems ok then. Our green cabinet is about 200 meters away. Most other WIFI near us is BT so must be ok you'd think

 

[spongebob59]

Once installed download a decent wifi anayler app and change your Wi-Fi channel so to avoid interference.

 

[Crazyface]

Once installed download a decent wifi anayler app and change your Wi-Fi channel so to avoid interference.

Huh???

 

[Dellboy]

Did have BT but the down time was getting beyond a joke.

Now have had Virgin firbe for over 4 yrs, down time = zero

 

[jim8flog]

Did have BT but the down time was getting beyond a joke.

Now have had Virgin firbe for over 4 yrs, down time = zero

Oh to live in a cabled area.

NTL (the company bought out by Virgin) put in all the fibre optic cables right through our village absolutely years ago but all the side roads and houses were never linked in.

 

[badgb21]

BT Hub 6 is an excellent modem/wifi router.
Wifi has great coverage.

 

[spongebob59]

Huh???

Something likes this :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer

Most routers are set to channel 6 by default so you need to change this to a channel that others aren't using to get your best performance..