BT Infinity. , worth a punt ?

FoxEye said:
From here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f7ecb55c-d17e-11df-96d1-00144feabdc0.html

"British Sky Broadcasting, the UK’s fourth-largest broadband provider, has no plans to become a wholesale customer on BT’s high-speed network."

Unless they decide to roll out their own fibre network, looks like Sky aren't going to be doing anything with fibre for a while.
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That just confirms Sky aren't going to be a wholesale customer. It doesn't mention, or rule out, GEA access at some point in the future.
 
John24 said:
The only real negative at the moment is torrent upload speed, it's capped at 130KB/s permenantly. I don't upload torrents very often but when I do it would be nice to have use of the full ~1000KB/s.

All in all happy so far but it's early days yet. If your currently with BE I'd say stay put for now, it really all depends on how much an unshapped connection is worth to you and how much shapping Infinity gets thrust upon it.
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Thanks for the review. Too bad certain protocols are shaped to hell by BT Infinity. 300GB of usage may seem great at first but it's totally unrealistic for less than £30 and can only be supported with the use of traffic shaping.

There is plenty of other providers offering FTTC without traffic shaping. Zen & IDNet etc.
 
I've been on it a few months now and cant say I've noticed any shaping whatsoever.

Bargain at the price.

Fast downloads when I need them and I'll never reach the 300gig limit even if I tried.
 
Synced at 40/10 and I get this over a wireless connection, half strength signal.

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£25 a month. Bargain!

The estimate they gave me was 21/9.9 as well. Just goes to show how much they underestimate it.
 
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Why don't they run cat 6 to the house like they do in sweden. cat 6 is relatively cheap and they could run it over their own telephone poles. then we can have fiber to the cabinet and cat 6 to the house.

Increase the cost of setup (for the cat 6) and they could easily offer 100/10 to people.

BT could install the infrastructure and then rent the use of it to isps. like they do in sweden, that seems to work ok.
 
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groen said:
Why don't they run cat 6 to the house like they do in sweden. cat 6 is relatively cheap and they could run it over their own telephone poles. then we can have fiber to the cabinet and cat 6 to the house.

Increase the cost of setup (for the cat 6) and they could easily offer 100/10 to people.
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They are installing FTTP. But FTTC is the first step.
 
groen said:
Why don't they run cat 6 to the house like they do in sweden. cat 6 is relatively cheap and they could run it over their own telephone poles. then we can have fiber to the cabinet and cat 6 to the house.
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Because many places have the lines underground.

VM is looking to expand their network by putting fiber over the BT telegraph poles, but not sure how that would work as I think they would flex far too easily :confused:
 
groen said:
Why don't they run cat 6 to the house like they do in sweden. cat 6 is relatively cheap and they could run it over their own telephone poles. then we can have fiber to the cabinet and cat 6 to the house.

Increase the cost of setup (for the cat 6) and they could easily offer 100/10 to people.
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Isn't Cat 6 limited to a range of 100 meters before it needs some sort of boosting? Not very practical for most places in the UK.
 
That is why they run fiber to the local cabinet and then run cat 6 in to the house.

Has anyone with BT infinity can tell me what sort of latencies you are getting and what about packet loss and routing ? are they ok. Never had BT as an isp but 18 month contract seems kind of crap. Can someone try an ssh connection and see how long it lasts before it times out, if someone could do a speed test through an ssh tunnel that would be great. thanks.
 
groen said:
That is why they run fiber to the local cabinet and then run cat 6 in to the house.

Has anyone with BT infinity can tell me what sort of latencies you are getting and what about packet loss and routing ? are they ok. Never had BT as an isp but 18 month contract seems kind of crap. Can someone try an ssh connection and see how long it lasts before it times out, if someone could do a speed test through an ssh tunnel that would be great. thanks.
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Over wifi. The internet feels incredibly smooth.

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Can anyone put any numbers/times to the shaping on Infinity? It cant be the same as the current ADSL can it?

You can have your massive quota and speed... but only between 0100h and 0600h on a thursday...
 
Upload cap of 130kbs is rubbish. I get 160kbs on my O2 on a good day and I only pay £7.50 for unlimited.

Whats the point of having 10mb upload if they dont let you use it.
 
bloodline76 said:
Upload cap of 130kbs is rubbish. I get 160kbs on my O2 on a good day and I only pay £7.50 for unlimited.

Whats the point of having 10mb upload if they dont let you use it.
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Definitely not capped at 130KB/s. I get much more.

Otherwise they can't claim it to be 10Mb/s can they? Would be completely false advertising.
 
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