"Super fast broadband"
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What ****es me off is BT are doing all this **** in areas that dont need to be upgraded there are places which are dieing to be upgraded from stone age connections and phone lines etc.
They wont let Virgin take over my area but they wont be doign any infrastructure upgrades for the forseeable future its absoloutly stupid.
Companies like virgin will start to tear business away from BT and eventualy BTs only reason for staying in the game is its name as it holds some history.
They wont let Virgin take over my area but they wont be doign any infrastructure upgrades for the forseeable future its absoloutly stupid.
Companies like virgin will start to tear business away from BT and eventualy BTs only reason for staying in the game is its name as it holds some history.
That is assuming that I am actually connected to THAT particular green cabinet, as opposed to a different one around here (I know of at least 8 others (2 large ones at the entrance to the housing area, then the usual small ones dotted around the housing area)
Plus then there is the cabinet in the housing area behind my house, meaning that I don't even know if my house is wired via the cabinet here, or the one there...
AFAIK BT are not exactly known for wiring the houses in the most "optimised" way back when the cables were laid.
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I'm on a dongle!! 500mb limit a day!! You any idea how much HD porn you can stream with 500mb! NOT ENOUGH!!
Leaves me very twitchy....
I can get virgin like, Just they're taking the **** when it comes to actually coming to install it
Leaves me very twitchy....
I can get virgin like, Just they're taking the **** when it comes to actually coming to install it
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You sure they are not using "Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly" as a proxy for Cornwall
In a previous business life we used to refer always to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly rather than just Cornwall, but never actually visited the Isles nor did anything specific for them
I suspect that the Isles will be part of the 10%
In a previous business life we used to refer always to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly rather than just Cornwall, but never actually visited the Isles nor did anything specific for them
I suspect that the Isles will be part of the 10%
i continue to live in hope that the other half of our exchange is connected via fiber. half was done years ago in the original rollout, our area wasn't. we get 4mb at best over a bt line and i cant help thinking that within 5 years thats not going to be anywhere near enough. we cant use it to stream anything without leaving it for hours to buffer even now 
10mb would do for now.
10mb would do for now.
Quite possibly. Just depends if you keep a look out for the FTTC cabinet being installed, then its most likely the one your connected to if it says on the checker you can get it "soon".
BT Infinity became available to me a few weeks ago. The cabinet was installed over a month ago, but Samknows hasn't updated the page for my exchange to say FTTC is enabled. Can order it through the BT site (or any other ISPs site if they provide FTTC), but i'm holding off as I can't really justify leaving cheapo O2, which does everything i need.
Nope, includes the Islands - it's the top news on the local radio station (officially the smallest radio station in the world!)
I get basically the same sync speed too, but less maybe 5mb. Don't really mind though. For £7.50 a month I can't complain, best ISP I have ever been with.
40mb would be lovely of course, but I'm not sure I can justify it just yet.
Don't expect any more then, this looks like it's just part of the "zomg supper fast* broadband for all of the uk" program
*did we mention superfast means 2mb?
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40mbit?
So all the advertising on the TV of super fast fibre broadband by BT is a slight let down. BT are still being owned by Virgin Media and are set to be out done again in the near future by virgin's 100mbit offerings.
The 10mbit upstream has me semi interested but not enough to jump ship.
Congrats to all the village people.. but for me and quite a few others it is a let down.
BT are just too slow at this broadband game.
So all the advertising on the TV of super fast fibre broadband by BT is a slight let down. BT are still being owned by Virgin Media and are set to be out done again in the near future by virgin's 100mbit offerings.
The 10mbit upstream has me semi interested but not enough to jump ship.
Congrats to all the village people.. but for me and quite a few others it is a let down.
BT are just too slow at this broadband game.
Thats the trouble with BT, they are simply years behind the competition. When they rave about having 10mb its years after competitors had already been offering 10mb. When they spooged about having 20mb, it was years after the competition had already offered 20mb, and now here they are spouting their SUPER Fast broadband...40mb of it...once again a long time after competitors have already been offering faster speeds.
At their rate of development they should be getting 100mb in around 2024...just a decade or so after their competitors have already done it. Probably best if they just stuck to telephones
Give it time. What BT is doing is a massive amount of work. They just spent years upgrading the core network.
I don't even get that and I live in a hugely built up area!
BT Infinity Fibre optic broadbandWe're rolling out our fibre optic network to bring you faster speeds of up to 40Mb. Register your interest now and we'll contact you near to the date stated. 17.3Mb download
7.5Mb upload 31-March-2011
hmm not bad
next march better than the 2mb i have now
7.5Mb upload 31-March-2011
hmm not bad
next march better than the 2mb i have now