BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

sharpygsxr · 8 Sep 2021 at 13:13

Glad to hear the experiences seem to be quite good in terms of flexibility. Ill see what they recommend on the day, worst case i can do a bit of attic crawling for rerouting ethernet, wont be the end of the world moving from 10mb to gigabit fibre will be worth the effort

andy_mk3 · 8 Sep 2021 at 13:21

Just be sure to offer plenty of hot drinks and you should be fine

Steven Rimmington · 11 Sep 2021 at 23:06

Thought id try ea play on PC,

Beautiful Looks like I need to invest in more storage :eek:

5-6 Mins to download.

V F · 11 Sep 2021 at 23:41

Steven Rimmington said:
Thought id try ea play on PC,

Beautiful Looks like I need to invest in more storage 5-6 Mins to download.

Stop it, you're making me cry. :cry:

Steven Rimmington · 12 Sep 2021 at 00:10

V F said:
Stop it, you're making me cry.

Ha sorry! Just crazy coming from 50/20! Make a drink and your game is downloaded! Madness

V F · 12 Sep 2021 at 00:27

When I make a drink and look, 2 more hours to go and feel like...

Steven Rimmington · 12 Sep 2021 at 01:59

What a film! Must rewatch that! :cry:

I can sympathise I can remember downloading GTA5 a few months back 110GB I think it was. Had to give up and go to sleep haha!!!!

ic1male · 12 Sep 2021 at 10:47

Have decided to go for Sky Ultrafast in the end over BT. Never had much of a problem with Sky since they took over the connection from Be/O2 some years ago apart from weird outages at 1am in the morning every now and then. 500Mbits should do me nicely as I'm the only downloader in the house.

andy_mk3 · 12 Sep 2021 at 10:53

ic1male said:
Have decided to go for Sky Ultrafast in the end over BT. Never had much of a problem with Sky since they took over the connection from Be/O2 some years ago apart from weird outages at 1am in the morning every now and then. 500Mbits should do me nicely as I'm the only downloader in the house.

I've just been looking at Sky 500 myself actually. Only just realised that Sky are selling FTTP.

ic1male · 12 Sep 2021 at 11:18

andy_mk3 said:
I've just been looking at Sky 500 myself actually. Only just realised that Sky are selling FTTP.

I think they're relatively new to it. Got to wait about 3 weeks for the engineer now.

ChrisD. · 12 Sep 2021 at 11:29

Have they sorted their internal issues out then?

andy_mk3 · 12 Sep 2021 at 11:30

I'm still swaying towards going with BT. If Sky were a lot cheaper I'd be very tempted but they're simply not.

MissChief · 12 Sep 2021 at 12:17

andy_mk3 said:
I'm still swaying towards going with BT. If Sky were a lot cheaper I'd be very tempted but they're simply not.

I do have new customer Sky discount codes for Superfast, trust message me and I’ll send one along. If the price is still too much let me know.

andy_mk3 · 12 Sep 2021 at 12:44

MissChief said:
I do have new customer Sky discount codes for Superfast, trust message me and I’ll send one along. If the price is still too much let me know.

Oh nice. Will send you a message thank you.

eddiemcgarrigle · 12 Sep 2021 at 12:51

flea.rider said:
To be built between April 2022 and April 2025

2026 for me. :mad:

Dg834man · 12 Sep 2021 at 13:47

eddiemcgarrigle said:
2026 for me.

Could be worse my area isn't even on the current roll out

MissChief · 12 Sep 2021 at 13:56

Dg834man said:
Could be worse my area isn't even on the current roll out

Same, not in the rollout. I’m with Sky (obviously!) and get 80/20 for £19pm as a staff member. I do have Virgin 500 available but would rather pull my toenails out with pliers. Until I get FTTP (or leave Sky) I’m kind of stuck!

Participant · 12 Sep 2021 at 15:44

MissChief said:
I’m with Sky (obviously!) and get 80/20 for £19pm as a staff member. I do have Virgin 500 available but would rather pull my toenails out with pliers.

Talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face!

Mike01 · 12 Sep 2021 at 16:19

Caged said:
Is your town/city in one of the coloured blobs on this map?

https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband

mine says To be built between April 2022 and April 2025, and I am on 32,68 Mbit/s /6.962 kbit/s connection fttc :mad:

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Steven Rimmington · 12 Sep 2021 at 16:22

MissChief said:
Same, not in the rollout. I’m with Sky (obviously!) and get 80/20 for £19pm as a staff member. I do have Virgin 500 available but would rather pull my toenails out with pliers. Until I get FTTP (or leave Sky) I’m kind of stuck!

Virgin was so bad for me, constant drop outs and router reboots. Also slow speeds around peak time probably due to massive over congestion. I would never use that service again in a million years so can relate to that quote