BT Infinity
 

Is anyone else having BT Broadband faults today ? Mine has been on and off more times than a brides nightie.

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I am on BT...but not infinity. Haven't had any connection problems today.
You could go to the BT site and check if there are any problems Frank.

I hate it when things don't work!

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I have had BT infinity for over a year.
When I moved to this address I have had connection problems at times. It usually happens during the couple of hours after the kids get 'released' from school and they are all logging on to do homework and/or chat to friends.

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This was all yesterday evening. My freesat box which is connected to my bt hub kept getting a message on my tv screen every ten minutes or so saying " Lan cable disconnected and Lan cable connected" and my broadband was dropping.

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Lan cable disconnected should be a hardware fault with the connection between your router and freesat box. I say should because even if you had no broadband connection you would still have a lan connection between router and freesat box but the freesat box could be reporting no internet connection as lan cable disconnected. If it gives the message again see if you have the connection light on for the freesat port on your router. That shows if there is a hardware connection on that port. You could check while it is working which poer and light is active now on your router, you may also have a little LED light of 2 under the socket where the Lan cable plugs in on your freesat box - some do and some don't, these light usual light/flash showing connection and communication.
Was the broadband dropping on another device as well?

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That really poor if you lose internet connection just because a few extra users connect.

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My BT Router keeps resetting itself.

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As in powering off and on again by itself?
Sounds like a router fault, phone them up and get it replaced.

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I've just spoken to BT after a ten minute wait on the phone.When I got my BT home hub 5 from them I was told I still need my openreach modem with it. Now they are telling me I don't need my modem. Conflicting advice or what? I can't wait for my contract to end.

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Have you tried it without the modem? From what I just read it looks like you don't need it

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Yes Neil I've tried it without the modem. I've just spoken to an operator in India and he has updated the software and asked me to see what it is like now. He will ring me back in 7 days and if it's no different ,BT will either send an engineer or replace the hub.

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I had problems with BT broadband on Wednesday. The connection was very slow, less then 1mb, and it kept dropping out.
I have an old Cable and Wireless hub and when I installed that I was back around 12mb download speed.
I rang BT and spoke to a guy in Mumbai who did a few tests and said he would monitor it and ring at 2PM today (Friday) which he did. Between us we tested both hubs and he agreed the BT hub was faulty and a new one would be with me in three working days.
He tested my line speed and it was over 14mbs so I am not loosing much between the Wi Fi router and my PC. Both iPad and Iphone were also having the same problem so we established it was the router.
I live about two hundred yards from a BT cabinet which has fibre optic connection and the cable to my house is underground and was put in when the house was new three years ago.

I watch Sky Go a lot on the PC and never have any buffeting so I am content to stay as things are and not go fibre all the way.

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They do not take fibre into your house. It is copper from the cabinet

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Yes I know that Frank, I watched them feed the cable through the underground trunking soon after I moved in to the place.
What I mean is I don't think it is worth me paying the extra to have an engineer fit a Fibre optic modem and associated gizmos and the extra monthly charge.
At present I pay a yearly fee of £141 line rental and £18 a month for unlimited download, evening and weekend calls, BT Vision and the full BT protection packet.
As long as my download speed stays above 10Mb I am very happy.


In my last post I said "no buffeting" when I meant "no buffering".

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Router is turning its self off and then on again as neil asked or are you using wireless and having constant drops(loosing the access point completely?)

Here are the solutions :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Ph8zwpNyI

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Had a phone call from BT this afternoon to say that they had a test on my line since Friday and had found a couple of hiccups and repaired them.Asked if I'd had problem since .So far so good ,infinity not dropping

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Glad you are sorted Frank.

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Nice you got sorted. Are you getting a refund for the lack in quality over the last few days.

The problem I had to dropouts with BT was simply being that every house surrounding me back then had the same BT hardware and wireless channels were constantly conflicting :D

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Geeky stuff warning!

Nothing to do with the same BT hardware because all Wifi routers use the same few overlapping channels so its all wifi hardware. Makes it worse when the router decides itself which channel to use and picks overlapping channels. There are really only 3 of the 11 (or 14 in you are a bad boy) channels you can use on G. This link will explain for the geeky types Why Channels 1, 6, and 11? | MetaGeek

This wiki page is also very good List of WLAN channels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It gets worse when you are using N with a 40Mhz bandwidth.

Basically the wifi standard is stupid having 5Mhz centre spaced channels when G uses 20Mhz wide channels and N often uses 40Mhz wide channels so overlapping causes interference. You could be better on the same channel as your neighbours instead of overlapping a channel with them. Most routers now select the channel for you and don't take into account overlapping so often choose stupid channels like 2 or 5

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True but in this case all my neighbours had bt ssid's :)

I started using powerline adapters of which i can say are quite good

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It doesn't matter whose make of router they are, usually just a lot of routers close together with poorly auto selected channels in use.