Anyone else had BT Infinity sales calls?

diverse180 · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:04

My estimate:

24.4Mb download
10.0Mb upload

Available now apparently.

Think I'll stick with Sky for the time being though.

marcus_667 · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:05

politely told them to naff off when they phoned us tried explaining to them 50 is higher then up to 40

aceface57 · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:06

Not on the list

Aberdeen is starting to hack me off more and more.

thecremeegg · 16 Oct 2010 at 01:08

20.6 D/l for me and 9.1 U/L with 31st December activation. Beats my current 2mb

Joshy · 16 Oct 2010 at 01:45

Website is making my head hurt.

It says that my exchange is on the roll out list but can't seem to get a date?

Lord-Jaffa · 16 Oct 2010 at 02:25

Muzy said:
yeah great news, my area getting infinity on 31-03-2011

Better hope they upgrade your cabinet! So far it seems they only do around 50% of them (ones with high density residentual areas) then move on to the next exchange.

Lord-Jaffa · 16 Oct 2010 at 02:27

Aeleys said:
not had a sales call yet, due to get it early JAN. if its worth the money i may invest.

my estimated results:

24.1Mb download
10.0Mb upload

whats all this talk about the cabinets? is it those green-ish boxes? if so mine is about 10 meters away from my front door, yet i get slow speeds?

Because the green cabinet 10 meters from your front door is connected to your towns exchange by old copper still, its that copper thats being replaced with fibre.

Id expect you to get at least the 40/10 if you are that close to an upgraded cabinet.

DBT85 · 16 Oct 2010 at 07:50

the BT site says my exchange is due to be done but doesn't give a date. But my exchange already has virgin. The problem is that no-one has run the fibre from the exchange to our area so I have no idea if BT are going to do that. I hope so. Having an exchange that supplies ADSL, Virgin Fibre and BT Fibre and only being able to get ADSL is going to suck.

Wynthorpe · 16 Oct 2010 at 08:33

From what info i can find we aint getting this in Blackburn, and where i live (new housing estate) a BT engineer was telling me that fibre has been taken to green boxes but its not for data :s So i'll just have to stick to my 2mb (which is pretty dire in this day and age for the price i pay for BT option 3).

DBT85 · 16 Oct 2010 at 10:06

Wynthorpe said:
From what info i can find we aint getting this in Blackburn, and where i live (new housing estate) a BT engineer was telling me that fibre has been taken to green boxes but its not for data :s So i'll just have to stick to my 2mb (which is pretty dire in this day and age for the price i pay for BT option 3).

I cant imagine they would waste the money running fibre to the cabinets unless it was for data. Even copper is more than enough for just voice.

atpbx · 16 Oct 2010 at 11:05

Yay go BT! they say I can have 3 meg broadband!!

I'll stick with virgin thanks.

Aeleys · 16 Oct 2010 at 11:08

Lord-Jaffa said:
Because the green cabinet 10 meters from your front door is connected to your towns exchange by old copper still, its that copper thats being replaced with fibre.

Id expect you to get at least the 40/10 if you are that close to an upgraded cabinet.

thanks, thats what i thought was just double cheking. plus my inhouse wires are olddddddddddd may upgrade those too thanks again

fozzy · 16 Oct 2010 at 19:41

Wynthorpe said:
From what info i can find we aint getting this in Blackburn, and where i live (new housing estate) a BT engineer was telling me that fibre has been taken to green boxes but its not for data :s So i'll just have to stick to my 2mb (which is pretty dire in this day and age for the price i pay for BT option 3).

Is this for definite? I live in the sticks just outside of Blackburn and was hoping we would get it.

Wynthorpe · 16 Oct 2010 at 20:42

fozzy said:
Is this for definite? I live in the sticks just outside of Blackburn and was hoping we would get it.

From what i can gather talking to a BT engineer Fozzy, can vote on this website to get Infinity though.

http://www.racetoinfinity.bt.com/

fozzy · 16 Oct 2010 at 21:50

Cheers for that. I've done it but I'm not sure if it will make any difference! Here's hoping eh.

willhub · 16 Oct 2010 at 22:18

In my village about 2 mile from the exchange the maximum we can get is 2.5mbit :\, wish we could get 40mbit fiber optic.

Here in the center of Manchester all we can get is 15mbit max.

Abraham · 17 Oct 2010 at 09:33

willhub said:
In my village about 2 mile from the exchange the maximum we can get is 2.5mbit :\, wish we could get 40mbit fiber optic.

Here in the center of Manchester all we can get is 15mbit max.

Where are you living now you're out of halls? most of the city is being BT infinity enabled by the end of the year.

Heliospherez · 17 Oct 2010 at 10:28

Funnily enough,

I phoned BT a few weeks ago to ask if I could move down from standard ADSL option 3 to Option 2 - as my old 18 month contract had ended last year sometime (so I would save nearly £10 a month, have the same speed - just have a monthly usage of 40GB)

The nice lady on the phone then decided to offer me Infinity for the same price that I was paying for my option 3 (only I would have to take a new 18 month contract, and have an installation fee)

Now why didn't they just let me know about that weeks ago - instead of confusing me over the phone with it once I threatened to give them less money for their services ????

Talbs13 · 17 Oct 2010 at 10:36

BT are con artists.

mjones1 · 17 Oct 2010 at 10:53

No idea when my exchange will be updated, will be stuck on 7mb for awhile then( no cable )
But if it does happen soon i will wait for sky to roll it out.