BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

Locky · 23 May 2011 at 22:13

I downloaded flash yesterday and it took a few secs.

V_R · 23 May 2011 at 22:21

Yerman said:
I'm sure a video showing BT Infinity vs Be* downloading a massive file from newsgroups would soon change your mind

Nah its fine, i shall stick to my FTTC via ADSL24 me thinks.

opethdisciple · 23 May 2011 at 23:38

Locky said:
I downloaded flash yesterday and it took a few secs.

Ok.

If you go to the download site it will take hours.

However if you go to the about flash page (where it checks if you have flash) it will install it in seconds.

Very very strange.

I never encountered this issue when with Be. Thank good I found a workaround for it.

However i wonder if it affects the download of other adobe softer from the adobe website?

It must be a BT issue, rather than adobe. Never encountered this issue before.

opethdisciple · 24 May 2011 at 00:36

I thought 12am the torrent throttling was lifted.

Started a very popular torrent.

Speeds under 200KB/s untill 12.35am then went up to 500KB/s then as soon as 1am hit, full speeds, jumped up to 2MB/s +

Kanpai · 24 May 2011 at 01:55

opethdisciple said:
I thought 12am the torrent throttling was lifted.

Started a very popular torrent.

Speeds under 200KB/s untill 12.35am then went up to 500KB/s then as soon as 1am hit, full speeds, jumped up to 2MB/s +

What I've realized is the torrent throttling times vary a bit each day, like today it was running at full speed at 11:45pm whereas last week it'd be around 12:10am

SeeKified · 24 May 2011 at 09:42

Right, so my upgrade from Option 1 to Option 2 was due for completion yesterday, and now apparently there's an issue with the completion of my order.

Will have to check the speeds and such when I get home...

tronath · 24 May 2011 at 11:52

To whoever is using infinity, is there much throttling on torrent upload speed in offpeak hours?

SeeKified · 24 May 2011 at 12:47

tronath said:
To whoever is using infinity, is there much throttling on torrent upload speed in offpeak hours?

There's no throttling offpeak that I'm aware of.

opethdisciple · 24 May 2011 at 13:04

SeeKified said:
There's no throttling offpeak that I'm aware of.

I thought Bit torrent uploads where always capped 24/7 tp 100/KBs

SeeKified · 24 May 2011 at 13:12

opethdisciple said:
I thought Bit torrent uploads where always capped 24/7 tp 100/KBs

Now that you mention it, that may well be true. :eek:

Donkeyfumbler · 24 May 2011 at 13:34

opethdisciple said:
Ok.

If you go to the download site it will take hours.

However if you go to the about flash page (where it checks if you have flash) it will install it in seconds.

Very very strange.

I never encountered this issue when with Be. Thank good I found a workaround for it.

However i wonder if it affects the download of other adobe softer from the adobe website?

It must be a BT issue, rather than adobe. Never encountered this issue before.

It is weird - thought it was just me or my PC until I came here. I'm also wondering whether they are throttling the downloads for the games that were on introductory offer at PC Word's new digital downloads site - every time I try it tells me its going to take over a 1000 hours to download.

vail3r · 24 May 2011 at 14:09

Hopefully ordering Infinity this evening!

cp88 · 24 May 2011 at 14:24

Was actually giving out 8mbit before on a torrent... usually its capped to 1mbit

Hoping it stays this way ^^

opethdisciple · 24 May 2011 at 21:22

Err, think Im going to restart the equipment.....

After a bit of a scare and 2 restarts of the equipment speeds are back:

It did disconnect on me, so hopefully this time its stable.

Didnt realise when the equipment comes on you have to manually choose to connect and have to log in!

Gammawolf · 24 May 2011 at 21:57

opethdisciple said:
It did disconnect on me, so hopefully this time its stable.

Didnt realise when the equipment comes on you have to manually choose to connect and have to log in!

How times change, only a few months ago that speed got a person at faster than 98%!

SeeKified · 24 May 2011 at 23:04

Just did a pingtest after having upgraded to Option 2.

Would post a speedtest, but it won't say much as I'm on my old laptop - 11g only. xD Will post wired results tomorrow.

V_R · 24 May 2011 at 23:25

Thankfully mine is sitting pretty like this. Glad i picked ADSL24 now.

SeeKified · 25 May 2011 at 17:50

That's my results after upgrading to Option 2. I'm quite happy with the pingtest result and my download speed, but I was expecting a higher upload since most people seem to be getting at least 7Mb. This is my laptop straight into the modem, no router involved. Any ideas?

V_R · 25 May 2011 at 18:19

How far from the cab are you? Did they say you'd get full sync?

Yerman · 25 May 2011 at 19:57

SeeKified said:
That's my results after upgrading to Option 2. I'm quite happy with the pingtest result and my download speed, but I was expecting a higher upload since most people seem to be getting at least 7Mb. This is my laptop straight into the modem, no router involved. Any ideas?

Have you tried any other speed tests? Have you tried uploading a file somewhere using FTP that would fully max your connection?

Try these other speedtests:

http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/
http://speedtest.aquiss.net/