BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

area51_for_psx said:
My exchange is 2.2km away and the nearest green cab would be less than 1km away. So as the infinity checker says i can get 8.5meg I should phone and see if they will give me advanced fibre support?
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Do it.

My Exchange is over 6km away my green box is over a mile by road.

I was told I would get 7.2mb down. Ended up with a 13-14mb which am over the mood at. I had around 700kb before switching.

Had it going now for a few months now and cant complain apart from the odd drop in speed which a full modem and router reset fixes.

Was Hard for me to get installed as the product was not lunched yet and none knew what I was talking about but an email to the CEO of BT and he got it done for me :p
 
[WU-TANG]GZA;19872310 said:
Just got Infinity today and I'm on the dreaded Poplar Exchange in East London (Canary Wharf) used to get a MAX of 2MB/s line speed but averaged about 1.6MB/s

Now getting a SWEET 31.67MB/s

Downloads on STEAM are about 3.4 - bloooody awesome.

Now I just need to find something to download :D
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Be careful. I think your download allowance is only 40GB.
 
Bigpig said:
Do it.

My Exchange is over 6km away my green box is over a mile by road.

I was told I would get 7.2mb down. Ended up with a 13-14mb which am over the mood at. I had around 700kb before switching.

Had it going now for a few months now and cant complain apart from the odd drop in speed which a full modem and router reset fixes.

Was Hard for me to get installed as the product was not lunched yet and none knew what I was talking about but an email to the CEO of BT and he got it done for me :p
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same as me, i had to email the ceo, whats your upload like? mine varies between 670 and 1.1 .

Also whats your ping like? i was on fastpath to start with, pings of 14ms to bbc, now its on some sort of interleaving 24ms.
 
Donkeyfumbler said:
Not on unlimited (Option 2 I think they call it). There is a fair usage policy, but you need to be consistently going over several hundred GB a month for them to even warn you.
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Fair usage? They scrapped it months ago, I've done 1tb a month since having Infinity
 
Orcvader said:
This. Since hardly anyone was reaching the 300gb FUP, they decided to scrap it. Now it's almost purely unlimited, shame about the throttling...
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I was thinking about this the other day, throttling in the evening is actually a good thing. After being on virgin at uni and only getting about 14mb instead of 20, plus higher pings and some lag, not having some git using the network all the time is a good thing.
Using p2p services like Bit-torrent in the evenings is ultimately only good for 2 things, get stuff distributed fast and reducing bandwidth from the original uploader. I know there are good uses for it, but HTTP through a CDN is actually better for getting stuff.

At the end of the day, throttling is of greater benefit to more people than are being throttled. If you cant wait until after 12 to torrent, or dont have the skill to remote in from work to torrent until 4pm when traffic shaping begins, you should count yourself as lazy and stupid, not directed at you Orcvader, but so many people tell the sob story about not being able torrent(to get Cowboys Vs Aliens film at 6pm on a saturday from a torrent site) is hardly a worthy argument given the other methods of obtaining content.
 
That's true. Just that I went to Hong Kong last month and a relative suffers no throttling at all with his crazy 1gb connection. Where as here, I don't get throttled (I've changed my download habits to fit around my family's habits to stay under the FUP), my connection suffers from a speed drop/ping increase during peak times due to the sheer amount of people connected to my exchange. The exchange is not even fibre enabled yet...
 
I like the throttling, keeps my pings low at peak times :).

When I was on BeThere pings would raise during peak hours.

fluff said:
Throttling is never a good thing. Infinity is throttled because it's a cheap and cheerful product.
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Or because BT have over 6 million subs? vs someone like Be who has under 300k?
 
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cp88 said:
I like the throttling, keeps my pings low at peak times :).
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9ms 24/7 here and no throttling!

cp88 said:
I like the throttling, keeps my pings low at peak times
Or because BT have over 6 million subs? vs someone like Be who has under 300k?
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No of subs is irrelevant. More subs = extra cash for network investment. Anyway, you shouldn't compare a BT wholesale product to LLU.
 
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